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VILNIUS, Lithuania (AP) - The first major congress of Jews of Lithuanian origin opened Friday in Vilnius, bringing together some 300 Jews from around the world to this former Soviet republic.

GENOA, Italy (AP) - Scores of people brought flowers, notes, cigarettes and bottles of beer Monday to a Genoa square where a protester was shot and killed during the Group of Eight riots a month ago.

GENOA, Italy (AP) - Scores of people brought flowers, notes, cigarettes and bottles of beer Monday to a Genoa square where a protester was shot and killed during the Group of Eight riots a month ago.

ROANOKE, Va. (AP) - A man upset because his last name made him a target of anti-homosexual jokes was sentenced Monday to four consecutive life terms for opening fire in a gay bar, killing one person and wounding six others.

CASTELLANE, France (AP) - Demolition crews on Thursday dynamited a giant concrete statue of a cult leader that had been built illegally in the French Alps. Members of the sect looked on and prayed, while area residents cheered.