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8-4-2005
Sudanese
bid
farewell
to
Garang
Southern
Sudanese are
preparing
to
bid
an
emotional
farewell
to
their
leader
John
Garang,
whose
death
in
a helicopter
crash
has
triggered
days
of
deadly
violence
and
threatened
a
landmark
peace
deal.
Garang's
body
is
to
be
carried
in
a
procession
from
town
to
town
through
his
stronghold
ahead
of
a
funeral
on Saturday
in
Juba,
the
city
that
became
the
capital
of
autonomous
south
Sudan
under
the
peace
agreement
he
helped
craft.
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Al-Zawahri
warns
of
more
attacks
Al-Qaida's
second
in
command
Ayman
al-Zawahri
has warned
Britain
in
a
video
aired
on
Thursday
that
Prime
Minister
Tony
Blair's
policies
will
bring
more
destruction
to
London.
He
also
warned
the
United
States
that
al-Qaida
would
continue
to
launch
deadly
attacks
until
US
troops
quit
all
Muslim
countries.
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Jordan
foils
plot
to
attack
US
troops
Jordan
has
arrested
17
suspects
linked
to
al-Qaida
network
in
Iraq
and
an
affiliated
Saudi
group
who have
been plotting
to
attack
US
military
personnel
in
the
kingdom.
Security
sources
said
on
Thursday
interrogation
of
the
suspects
revealed
that
six
of
them
had
ties
with
Abu
Musab
al-Zarqawi,
head
of
the
al-Qaida
network
in
Iraq,
while
the
others
belonged
to
an
underground
Saudi
group
known
as
the
Brigades
of
the
Holy
Shrines.
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Gaza
settlers
suspend
march
Thousands
of
Israeli
rightists
have
suspended
a
march
on
Gaza
settlements
after
security
forces
blocked
their
path
to
prevent
them
from
disrupting
a
planned
pullout
from
the
occupied
strip.
Demonstrators,
who
had
been
halted
by
police
and
soldiers
as
they
marched
out
of
Ofakim
in
southern
Israel,
turned
back
on
Thursday
toward
the
town
just
after
dawn.
Jewish
settler
leaders
said
they
would
rest
and
decide
what
to
do
next.
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London
on
alert
four
weeks
after
attack
Thousands
of
police
officers
patrolled
London's
streets
and
sprawling
subway
system,
four
weeks
after
four
bombers
killed
52
people
on
three
subway
trains
and
a
bus.
The
city's
transit
system
took
a
step
toward
normality
with
the
reopening
of
the
subway's
busy
Piccadilly
Line.
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US,China
to
block
UN
expansion
The
United
States
and
China
have decided
to
join
hands to
block a
proposal by
Brazil,
Germany,
India
and
Japan to
expand
the
UN
Security
Council.
China's
UN
ambassador
Wang
Guangya
said
he
reached
the
agreement
with
John
Bolton
during
a
meeting
on
Tuesday
-which
was
the
new
US
ambassador's
first
full
day
in
his
new
post
- because
both
believe
the
proposal
by
the
so-called
Group
of
Four
would
divide
the
UN's
191
member
states.
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Korea
nuclear
talks
facing
collapse
The
United
States
has
indicated
that the
six-nation
talks,
aimed
at
persuading
North
Korea
to
abandon
its
nuclear
weapons
programme,
can
be
heading
for
a
stalemate
unless
China
persuades
Pyongyang
to fall
in
line.
US
Assistant
Secretary
of
State
Christopher
Hill
said
on
Thursday
that
Washington wanted
to
know
exactly
what
North
Korea
would
agree
to
abandon
its
nuclear
weapons
programme
under
a
six-party
de-nuclearization
agreement.
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