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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – Beauty pageant organizers were investigating Sunday who doused a contestant’s evening gowns with pepper spray and spiked her makeup, causing her to break out in hives.
Beauty queen Ingrid Marie Rivera beat 29 rivals to become the island’s 2008 Miss Universe contestant, despite applying makeup and wearing evening gowns that had been coated with pepper spray, pageant spokesman Harold Rosario said.
Rivera was composed while appearing before cameras and judges. But backstage, she had to strip off her clothes and apply ice bags to her face and body.
Police rounded up scores of people demonstrating against Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday, dragging protesters toward buses and beating some who tried to escape.
Among those detained was a likely contender in next March’s presidential election, Boris Nemtsov.
Vladimir Kryuchkov, the former KGB chief who spearheaded a failed coup against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 83.
Kryuchkov died Friday in Moscow of an unspecified illness, according to the Federal Security Service, the main KGB successor agency.
In August 1991, Kryuchkov joined other hard-line members of the Communist Party leadership who ousted Gorbachev and declared a nationwide state of emergency in an attempt to roll back liberal reforms. The coup collapsed after three days and helped precipitate the collapse of the Soviet Union in December 1991.
Trevor Phillips, the head of Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission condemned Oxford’s debating society Sunday for inviting Holocaust denier David Irving – a historian jailed in Austria last year for violating laws against denying the Holocaust – to speak at the university today.
A string of bombings killed one person and wounded 15 others Sunday in northeastern India’s insurgency-ravaged Assam state.
No one claimed responsibility, but police said they suspect the United Liberation Front of Asom, a group that has been fighting since 1979 for an independent homeland in the state.
