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Geisy Arruda in the dress that caused a near riot. Her school backed off on her expulsion.
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Korean warships exchange fire
SEOUL, South Korea - Navy ships of the two Koreas exchanged fire today along their disputed western sea border, a South Korean military officer said.A South Korean warship shot at a North Korean navy ship that crossed the disputed western sea border and the North's ship shot back, said an officer at the Seoul's Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The officer, speaking on condition of anonymity citing department policy, said it was not immediately known whether there were any casualties.
Navies of the two Koreas have fought deadly skirmishes along the western sea border in 1999 and 2002.
- AP
Dalai Lama's trip is kept low-key
TAWANG, India - Indian officials barred foreign journalists and tried to keep away local reporters yesterday from the Dalai Lama, who is visiting a border area that China claims as its own.China has protested the Tibetan spiritual leader's weeklong visit to the northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh that began Sunday. The Dalai Lama was holding prayer meetings and teaching sessions with adherents in the Himalayan town of Tawang, near the frontier with Chinese-controlled Tibet.
As the Dalai Lama inaugurated a hospital wing in Tawang, Leki Phuntso, a media official with the state government, told waiting reporters they were "requested" not to ask any questions.
China had demanded India call off the trip, but India said the Dalai Lama, who has lived in exile here since 1959, was an honored guest and free to visit any part of the country. - AP
Iraq holds leader of pro-U.S. militia
BAGHDAD - A pro-U.S. Sunni paramilitary leader and budding politician who had been trying to avoid arrest on murder charges since the summer has been jailed by Iraqi security forces, authorities said yesterday.Brig. Gen. Mustafa Kamal Shibeeb was taken into custody last week in connection with the killings of five al-Qaeda in Iraq members in 2007 in southeastern Baghdad's Dura region, where Shibeeb then commanded Sunni paramilitary fighters known as the Awakening who turned away from the anti-U.S. insurgency.
On Thursday, an elite unit from the interior ministry captured Shibeeb without the knowledge of the U.S. military or Iraqi army units in the area that previously had stopped them.
Despite the support of current and former U.S. officers, Shibeeb has blamed the U.S. military for failing to protect the leaders of the Awakening movement from prosecution in Iraqi courts. - L.A. Times
