1. A special assembly convened for a second day to debate political reform in Indonesia Wednesday amid fears of more student protests and street fighting by rival mobs. 2. Also overnight, police separated rival mobs at several Protestant-Catholic interfaces in north Belfast, the scene of much more protracted clashes Thursday between Catholics and police. 3. Authorities have been unable to contain brawls in Maluku where rival mobs fight with swords, bows and arrows and gasoline bombs. 4. Authorities have been unable to contain brawls in Maluku where rival mobs have fought with swords, bows and arrows and gasoline bombs. 5. Bloody rioting among rival mobs of Christians and Muslims flared for a third straight day on a remote island in eastern Indonesia Thursday. 6. Clashes between police and rival mobs broke out as darkness fell. 7. Clashes between police and rival mobs resumed as darkness fell. 8. Earlier this week community leaders in Benteng Atas had declared a truce between rival mobs. 9. For the second straight night, police and British soldiers kept the rival mobs from attacking each other. 10. Police fired bullets on two other occasions to disperse rival mobs, United News of India news agency reported. |
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