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Protesters against the cartoon depicting Mohammed published last autumn in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten burned down the Danish embassies in Damascus and Beirut, and attacked the embassy in Tehran. At Trabzon on the Black Sea in Turkey, a 61-year-old Catholic priest was shot dead at his church by a teenager angered by the cartoons. In Afghanistan police shot dead four demonstrators. A motorcyclist attempting to enter a police compound at Kandahar in southern Afghanistan killed 13; Britain has announced plans to send 3,300 troops to the region. A ferry carrying 1,414 from Saudi Arabia to Safaga in Egypt sank, with only 388 confirmed survivors. Some had been left for 24 hours in the sea; an angry crowd ransacked the offices of the ship’s Egyptian owners. In the Philippines 74 were killed when part of a crowd stampeded at a Manila stadium where a television gameshow with cash prizes was taking place. Mr Nicolas Sarkozy, the interior minister of France, presented a draft law on immigration to the Cabinet; ‘We no longer want immigration to be inflicted,’ he said. ‘We want selected immigration.’ In rural Alabama four Baptist churches were set on fire in a week; five had been set alight the week before. Luxembourg, which has a 5.6 per cent holding in Arcelor, the steel concern, opposed a bid from Mittal Steel to take it over. An expedition to New Guinea recorded the first observed male specimen of Berlepsch’s six-wired bird of paradise, a previously unknown golden-wattled honey-eater, a colony of gold-mantled tree kangaroos and 20 new species of frogs.
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