■ Colombia
Police, Indians clash again
Clashes between police and indigenous groups resumed amid promises by the Indians to remain on the more than one dozen farms they have seized in southwest Colombia in an effort to take back what they say are their ancestral lands. A protester was injured in one of several confrontations on Sunday where police in riot gear tried unsuccessfully to remove Indians from the farms using tear gas, said a police officer in Caloto, 310km southwest of Bogota. Since the hostilities began more than a week ago, dozens have been injured on both sides. A temporary truce was struck on Friday so the Indians could hold a funeral for a 16-year-old killed on Thursday, but that on ended Sunday.
■ Peru
Public suspect collaboration
An opinion poll released on Sunday indicates that 76 percent of residents in the capital Lima believe that former president Alberto Fujimori collaborated with the Japanese government when he defied an international arrest warrant on Nov. 5 and traveled from Tokyo to Santiago, Chile. Fifteen percent of those surveyed said that they did not believe that Japan helped the 67-year-old Fujimori travel to Chile, while 9 percent did not respond, according to the poll, conducted by the independent firm Apoyo for Peruvian daily El Comercio.
■ Canada
Opposition wields ultimatum
Canada's three opposition parties threatened on Sunday to bring down the minority Liberal government this month if Prime Minister Paul Martin does not agree to their demands for a February election. But Martin's team dismissed their demand as insincere and dared them to go ahead and topple the government and accept the consequences. The leaders of the opposition met on Sunday afternoon, coming up with a plan of handing an ultimatum to Martin, who is under heavy fire over a government corruption scandal. The plan is to debate an opposition motion either today or on Thursday calling for the government to dissolve parliament in January and set a February election date.
■ United States
Adviser defends Bush
US President George W. Bush did not manipulate prewar intelligence about Iraq, a top White House aide said on Sunday, as the administration pursued its campaign against critics who say the president misled the country. National security adviser Stephen Hadley told CNN's Late Edition that Bush relied on the same intelligence that his predecessor Bill Clinton saw and that 77 of 100 senators in 2002 backed Bush on the use of force in Iraq. "I think the point that we need to emphasize here was, allegations now that the president somehow manipulated intelligence, somehow misled the American people, are flat wrong," Hadley said.
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