Burmese government releases more protesters.

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Burma releases detainees

The Burmese opposition says the military government has released more than eighty people detained during the suppression of anti-government protests last month.
A spokesman for the National League for Democracy said party members, monks and students were among those freed.

Activists and foreign diplomats say several thousand people are still in detention, although the military government has said it's only holding a few hundred.

Bhutto visits ancestral village

	Ms Bhutto read prayers near her father's grave

Pakistan's former Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto, who's recently returned from exile, is visiting her ancestral village -- her first public trip outside the city of Karachi after the attempt on her life there, nine days ago. Miss Bhutto, flanked by heavy security, was greeted by hundreds of supporters as she paid her respects at the mausoleum of her executed father, the former prime minister, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. Hundreds of armed private security guards surrounded the white-domed tomb, cordoning off the area and forbidding entry even to police.

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