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NEW DELHI (AP) - The latest session of India's often-raucous Parliament has been adjourned after weeks of shouting matches between the country's beleaguered government and the opposition.

The monthlong session ended Friday with only four out of 30 slated bills passed.

Over the last two weeks, both houses of Parliament have done little business as lawmakers of the opposition Bharatiya Janata Party stalled proceedings demanding the prime minister's resignation after an audit report said the government lost huge sums of money by selling coal fields without competitive bidding.

The BJP refused the government's pleas to debate the subject. Its spokesman Arun Jaitley said his party wanted to shake the country's conscience.

On Friday, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh asked the opposition to decide whether stalling Parliament was the way to "serve our functioning democracy."

MANILA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine police have filed a murder complaint against the Filipino wife of a Canadian man who was gunned down at a beach resort in a southern city last month.

Surigao City police investigator Rose Marie Almazan says prosecutors are expected to file a case next week against Jane Doyle and three Filipino men for the Aug. 12 fatal shooting of 62-year-old Harry Doyle of Fredericton, New Brunswick.

Almazan says Jane Doyle has fled to Canada but that Philippine police will seek her extradition after an arrest warrant is issued.

Almazan said Thursday that Jane Doyle had romantic relations with one of the other suspects, the family's driver-bodyguard, and that she was seen talking with the two other suspects, including the alleged gunman, a week before the killing.

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TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - They are mere specks on the map. Many are uninhabited, and others sparsely so by seasonal residents. Yet the disputed ownership of these tiny constellations of islands is inflaming nationalist fervor from the cold North Pacific to the tropical South China Sea.

In recent weeks, these long-simmering tensions have returned to a boil, with violent protests in Chinese cities, a provocative island junket by South Korea's lame-duck president, and Japan's government reportedly planning to buy disputed islands from their private owners.

The popular analysis is that the rising tensions are fueled by a regional power shift that has seen China become increasingly assertive with its neighbors in securing claims over potentially resource-rich waters. But the growing acrimony may have at least as much to do with domestic political posturing.