Buddhist battle
Reformist Buddhist monks fought pitched battles with conservative monks and riot police yesterday in an effort to occupy the Chogye Temple, headquarters of Korean Buddhism and to find a senior monk they accuse of corruption, AFP reports from Seoul.
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