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Moscow - Russia's parliament has given initial approval to stricter rules on public demonstrations. Opposition leaders say the new rules could be used to clear protesters off the streets and call them a blow against democracy. The bill, which faces two more Duma readings, would ban gatherings outside official buildings, embassies, offices of international organizations and public buildings like schools, hospitals, stadiums, concert halls, houses of worship, and at major intersections. "This is a mockery of the rights and freedoms that are written into the constitution," said Communist party deputy Viktor Tyulkin. "Why don't they go ahead and forbid people from having conversations?" Baghdad - The American administrator in Iraq vowed Thursday to deliver justice to those who killed four American contractors and mutilated their bodies in Fallujah a day earlier. Saying the attack "would not go unpunished," Paul Bremer said it violated the tenets of all religions, including Islam. Pale, Bosnia-Herzegovina - War crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic eluded a raid by NATO peacekeepers in the Bosnian town of Pale Thursday. Karadzic is wanted by the United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague. He faces genocide charges in connection with the slaughter of Bosnian Muslims during the 1992-1995 war.
