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Briefs
8-6-2005
Uganda
queries
cause
of
Garang
death
Uganda's
president
has
said
the
helicopter
crash
that
killed
Sudanese
First
Vice-President
John
Garang
may
not
have
been
an
accident.
"Some
people
say
accident,
it
may
be
an
accident,
it
may
be
something
else,"
President
Yoweri
Museveni
said
on
Friday,
becoming
the
first
official
of
any
government
to
publicly
suggest
the
31 July
crash
may
have
been
the
result
of
foul
play.
"The
[helicopter]
was
very
well
equipped,
this
was
my
[helicopter]
the
one
I
am
flying
all
the
time,
I
am
not
ruling
anything
out,"
he
said,
noting
that
an
international
panel
of
experts
had
been
appointed
to
look
into
the
crash.
"Either
the
pilot
panicked,
either
there
was
some
side
wind
or
the
instruments
failed
or
there
was
an
external
factor,"
Museveni
told
southern
Sudanese
mourners
in
the
town
of
Yai
where
Garang's
body
was
brought
ahead
of
his
Saturday
funeral
in
Juba.
His
comments
were
met
with
silence
from
the
crowd,
which
had
earlier
greeted
the
arrival
of
Garang's
coffin
with
wailing,
ululation
and
prayer.
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Efforts
on
to
save
Russian
sailors
A
Russian
ship
has
snagged
a
mini-submarine
trapped
far
under
the
Pacific
Ocean
and
was
trying
to
tow
it
to
shallower
waters
where
divers
could
free
the
seven
people
trapped
in
it
for
two
days,
the
commander
of
the
Russian
Pacific
fleet
said.
The
statement
by
Admiral
Viktor
Fyodorov
to
the
NTV
television
channel
followed
a
day
of
desperate
rescue
efforts
and
widely
varying
estimates
of
how
much
oxygen
remained
on
the
tiny
vessel.
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Victims
of
Israeli
soldier
laid
to
rest
Thousands
of
mourners
have
marched
at
the
funeral
of
Palestinians
murdered
by
an
Israeli
soldier.
Private
Edan
Nathan-Zaada,
a
resident
of
the
extremist
Jewish
settlement
of
Tapuah
in
the
West
Bank,
shot
dead
four Arab
civilians
on
a
bus on
Thursday.
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Thousands
mark
Hiroshima
anniversary
Tens
of
thousands
of
people
from
around
the
world
gathered
in
Hiroshima
to
mark
the
60th
anniversary
of
the
atomic
bombing
of
the
city
and
to
renew
calls
for
the
abolition
of
nuclear
arms.
The
anniversary
of
the
world's
first
atomic
bombing
comes
as
regional
powers
continue
talks
in
Beijing
to
urge
North
Korea
to
give
up
its
nuclear
programme,
seen
by
Tokyo
as
a
potential
threat
and
one
of
the
reasons
behind
rising
calls
in
Japan
to
strengthen
its
defence
and
seek
closer
military
cooperation
with
the
United
States.
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Iraqi
constitution
talks
delayed
A
crucial
meeting
on
Iraq's
constitutional
stalemate
has
been
postponed due
to an
emergency
session
of
the
Kurdish
parliament
amid
sustained
attacks
by
anti-US
and
US-backed
Iraqi
government
fighters.
The
two-day
delay
came
against
a
backdrop
of
relentless
violence
that
has
seen
at
least
40
US
soldiers
die
in
the
past
10
days,
putting
the
overall
death
toll
for
US
soldiers
at
1818
since
the
March
2003
invasion
of
Iraq.
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Morocco
clamps
down
on
sex
tourism
Morocco
has
jailed
60
suspected
prostitutes
for
up
to
four
months
after
a
mass
trial
in
a
tourist
resort.
The move
was
praised
by
Islamists
but
assailed
by
rights
activists,
lawyers
and
newspapers.
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Palestinian
factions
vie
for
festival
role
With
less
than
two
weeks
left
before
Israel
evacuates
the
Gaza
Strip,
Palestinian
factions
are
gearing
up
for
celebrations
with
publicity
campaigns
that
are
equally
intended
to
win
Palestinian
votes.
The
Palestinian
Authority
(PA),
which
is
spending
an
estimated
$1.7
million
on
withdrawal
celebrations,
kicked-off
its
campaign
on
Thursday
with
an
event
it
called
a
liberation
and
evacuation
festival,
held
in
front
of
Gaza
city's
Legislative
Council.
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UN
appeals
for
more
Niger
aid
The
United
Nations
has appealed
for
more
than
US$55
million
for
the
humanitarian
crisis
in
Niger
and
said
millions
more
will
be
needed
to
combat
hunger
in
the
neighboring
Sahel
region.
The
emergency
appeal
to
help
Niger
through
December
has
been
increased
to
US$80.9
million,
but
US$25.4
million
has
already
been
contributed
or
committed
by
donors,
UN
deputy
emergency
relief
coordinator
Margareta
Wahlstrom
said.
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