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Show JAH ) AG HY Che walt Lake Tribune INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY, September 14, 2003 EuroPE/AFRICA ‘THE AMERICAS Compiled by Brian Mac Intyre from Tribune wire serves Compiled by Rudy Mesicek from Tribune wire services Study says hundredsofspecies Protests mark 30th anniversary Hundreds ofspecies face JOHANNESBURG — possible extinction in the next two decadesif moreland is not set aside to protect them, a study released Thursdaysaid. The Conservation International study of more than 11,000 species throughout the worldhascreateda global picture of how theyareprotected. It was released during the World Parks Congress in the coastal city of Durban where 2,500 international conservationists havegathered. Anurgent addition of2.6 percent of the world’s land area to an existing protection system could Violent protests erupted in sev SANTIAGO eral working-class neighborhoods of the capital Thursday as Chileans marked the 30th annivet sary of the coup that deposed President Salvador Allende and brought Gen. Augusto Pinochet to powel Aftera day of mainly peaceful remembrances for the Marxist president, demonstrators blocked traffic with flamingbarricades at a number of Santiago intersections and battled police in clashesthat left at least one officer wounded and more than 50 people detained, said Deputy Inte day re in ag world ers, lions Th pared that t trade point nation of 21 thirds of unprotected species, the report said. President Ricardo Lagos called Allende a mar world At least 223 bird, 140 mammal and 346 amphib- tyr. According to a version accepted by Allende’s Unite ian species are completely unprotected. family, he shot himself with a submachine gun Ce ter of view| IRELAND BRAZIL Pers SLee Countryoffers asylumto Nigerian sentenced to death by stoning SAO PAULO = Pewre FLomoKu/ The Associated Press A sick woman is transported in a hammock to a nearby town while soldiers of the military force organized by the Economic Community of West African States for peacekeeping deploy in Buchanan,Liberia, on Saturday. WestAfrican peacekeepers moved deeper into unsecured areas of the war-torn country throughout the day. Brazil said Thursdayit was willing to grant asylum to a woman in Nigeria who was sentenced to death by stoning for having sex outside of marriage Amina Lawal is appealing the Islamic court sentence. If she is successful and eventually re leased she could take advantage of the asylum of fer if she feels in danger remaining in Nigeria, Compiled by Richard Streebyfrom Tribune wire services said Vera Rota, a spokeswoman for the country’s federal women’s rights agency An Islamic court in northern Nigeria convicted Lawal in March 2002 following the birth of her ba BANGLADESH IRAN Hive zookeepers sentenced to prison forkilling tigers to sell their skins Dissidentcleric freed from house arrest to resumereligious teaching DHAKA A Bangladesh court convicted and sentenced five zookeepers to 14 years in prison for killing three tigers and planning to sell their skins, officials said. Three adult royal Bengal tigers died in November 1996after eating poisoned meatat a zoo in the Bangladesh capital, Dhaka. Police charged 14 zoo employees with killing the tigers, which are a protected species and a na tional symbol. On Wednesday, Judge Habibur Rahmanof Dhaka Metropolitan Sessions Court convicted five, while acquitting nineothersfor lack ofevidence. The 14-year sentences were the maximum. Wildlifeofficials estimate Bangladesh still has about 300 tigers in the wild, though they don’t have anexact count. Tiger skins are a pricedcollectors items. TEHRAN A leadingIranian dissident cleric will resume his religious teaching next week after spending five years underhousearrest, his son said Tuesday. Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, 81, will begin teaching advancedreligious studies Wednesday at a mosqueclose to his hometown of Qom, AhmadMontazerisaid. The senior Montazeri was placed under house arrest in 1997 after telling his students that Iran’s SupremeLeader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wasincompetent torule. The Supreme National Security Council lifted the housearrest in late January as Montazeri’s health deteriorated. Montazeriis one of the most senior theologians of the Shiite Muslimfaith, and has huge followings in the holy city of Qom andIsfahan, his birthplace. by, more than two years atter Lawal and her hus band divorced MEXICO Catholic cardinal questions motives of money-launderinginvestigation MEXICO CITY A Roman Catholic cardinal is being investigated for possible money laundering, Mexico's Justice Department said Thursday. The investigation grew out of complaints by a former attorney general who has a long-running dispute with Cardinal Juan Sandoval of Guadala jara over the investigation into the shooting death of Sandoval’s predecessor “We are worried that this investigation could be motivated by personal interests in order to dis credit the cardinal [Sandoval] with the possible goal of derailing the process of clarifying the as sassination of Cardinal |Juan Jesus| Posadas [Ocampo],” Sandoval said, reading a statement TORONTO CHINA INDONESIA CANADA Bishopsurgerejection ofbill that wouldlegalize same-sex marriage JW Marriott Hotel reopens a month Drainage-ditch diggers unearth unexploded WWII Japanese bombs after bombing that killed 12 people Roman Catholic bishops called on Canadians on Wednesday to oppose a government proposal to legalize same-sex marriage, saying such a change would “have a serious impact on society.” A pastoral letter by the Canadian Council of Catholic Bishops says it is possible to recognize ho mosexual unions without altering the traditional definition of marriage as between a man and a woman Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s government, bowing to recent court rulings, has drafted a law that defines marriage as “between two people.” It would replace the current legal definition, which says spouses must be of the opposite sex The proposal hasset off a nationwide opposition movement led by conservative groups and church es, with protesters targeting individual lawmakers who have expressed support for the change Rudy Mesicek has published poetry rooted in Latin American history. rmesicek@sltrib.com JAKARTA Jakarta’s JW Marriott Hotel re opened Monday a monthafter a suspected suicide bomberblew up a car in thelobby, killing 12 peo ple and wounding nearly 150. The Aug. 5 attack has been blamed on Jemaah Islamiyah, the al-Qaidalinked regional terror groupaccused inlast year’s nightclub bombings on Bali island. The Marriott bomb badly damaged the ground floor restaurant and lobby of the U.S.-owned hotel, but the building remained structurally intact. That meant repairs were donerelatively quickly Several guests checked in Monday andthe ho tel’s restaurants, cafes andotherfacilities were open, public relations manager Mellani Solagratia said. The Marriott explosion occurred two days be fore a court in Bali convicted and sentenced to death the first of about 30 suspects arrested in the Bali bombings, which killed 202 people, mostly for eign tourists BEIJING Construction workers digging a drainage ditch have unearthed dozens of World War II-era Japanese bombs in an eastern Chinese city, authorities said Monday. The 80 bombs turnedupSept. 3at the construc tion site in Heze, a city in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong. 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