Brazil: Man guilty in nun’s death
A Brazilian judge sentenced Rayfran das Neves Sales to 27 years in prison for shooting and killing American nun and rain forest defender Dorothy Stang in a retrial Monday. The judge sentenced Sales to the same 27 years he received at his first trial in December 2005; Brazil grants an automatic retrial for any sentence longer than 20 years. Prosecutors say two ranchers hired Sales to kill Stang, 73, because of a dispute over a piece of forest they wanted to clear for pasture.
Egypt: Bin Laden talks to insurgents
Osama bin Laden called for Iraqi insurgents to unite and avoid divisive “extremism,” speaking in an audiotape aired Monday from Egypt and apparently intended to win over Sunnis who are opposed to al-Qaida’s branch in Iraq and who have joined U.S. troops fighting their members.
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