The accounts, denied by police, came as 200 Spanish marines arrived in northern Haiti to reinforce a U.N. peacekeeping mission struggling to stop killings and stem widespread unrest.
ASIA
• SRINAGAR, India -- Shops and businesses were shut and traffic was light in many parts of the Indian-controlled portion of Kashmir as separatists called a strike to mark the 57th anniversary of the start of New Delhi's rule over the region.
The strike came two days after Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, made fresh proposals to end the decades-old dispute with nuclear-armed rival India over the Himalayan region.
India, meanwhile, tested a naval version of its short-range nuclear-capable Prithvi missile on Wednesday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported.
AFRICA
• DASS, Nigeria -- Attorneys for a pregnant 18-year-old woman sentenced to death by stoning on a charge of adultery asked an Islamic court in northern Nigeria to overturn the verdict, saying she was never married.
The man she says impregnated her was freed for lack of evidence.
-- From News Services
