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Muslim Fury At Pope

Pope Benedict XVI came under a hail of criticism from the Islamic world Friday for comments he made earlier in the week regarding the Prophet Mohammed and the Muslim faith, in some cities provoking street protests. A growing chorus of Muslim leaders have called on the pope to apologize for the remarks he made in a speech in Germany on Tuesday when he used the terms "jihad" and "holy war." CNN News



Russia's bankers offered a "sizeable" reward on Friday for information on the killers who gunned down a top central bank official. Despite launching a major manhunt, police said they had no firm suspects in the contract killing of Andrei Kozlov, 41, a crusader against money laundering. CNN News



Beijing is considering hospitalizing the mentally ill, relaxing restrictions on religious services and giving many businesses and factories a holiday, among contingency measures for the 2008 Olympics. CNEWS



Protesters in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan attacked the country's transport minister Friday, angry about recent toxic waste dumping that has killed six people. CBC News



Five members of the Palestinian Intelligence Service were killed Friday as they left a mosque in a Gaza refugee camp, according to Palestinian security sources. CNN News



Tropical storm Lane lashed Mexico's Pacific coast with winds and rain on Thursday evening, flooding streets in Acapulco before setting on a course to hit the hurricane-battered tip of the Baja California Peninsula. The storm was centred about 150 kilometres southwest of Manzanillo and was moving northwest at 16 km/h. CBC News



A former cult leader who masterminded a poison gas attack on Tokyo subway trains in 1995 had his appeal against the death penalty rejected by Japan's Supreme Court on Friday. Lawyers for Shoko Asahara, 51, had argued that the former leader of Aum Shinri Kyo, or Supreme Truth Sect, was mentally incompetent and called for the case be suspended. CNN News



Oh baby! Marie Michel's fifth child was one for the record books. Michel gave birth to a 14-pound, 13-ounce boy Tuesday at William W. Backus Hospital. CTV News



Yemen authorities thwarted attempts by suicide bombers to blow up two oil facilities with explosive-laden cars, killing both attackers Friday, an official Yemeni source said, according to the state-run Saba news agency.
The guards apparently managed to detonate the two rigged cars before they reached their final destination. CNN News



The bodies of 29 people who appeared to have been tortured were found strewn around Baghdad, police said Friday. The bodies were found at different locations around the capital between Thursday afternoon and Friday morning, said Baghdad police Lt. Thair Mahmoud. CTV News


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