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8-7-2005
Iran
says
it
will
resume
nuclear
work
Iran
has insisted
it
will
resume
uranium
conversion
this
week
after
rejecting
EU
incentives
to
end
its
nuclear
fuel
work.
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Netanyahu
resigns
over
Gaza
pullout
Israeli
Finance
Minister
Benjamin
Netanyahu
has
tendered
his
resignation
over
his
opposition
to
this
month's
planned
withdrawal
from
the
Gaza
Strip,
official
sources
say.
Netanyahu,
a
former
prime
minister
and
stalwart
of
Prime
Minister
Ariel
Sharon's
Likud
party,
resigned
shortly
before
a
cabinet
vote
on
Sunday
that
would
give
the
final
go-ahead
on
the
evacuation
of
a
first
batch
of
Gaza
settlements.
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Fresh
talks
on
new
Iraq
constitution
Iraq's
president
has
announced
fresh
rounds
of
talks
with
political
leaders
to
settle
key
issues
holding
up
drafting
of
a
new
constitution
before
a
15
August
deadline
as
at
least
39
people
died
in
attacks
across
Iraq.
Legislators
vow
to
ready
the
country's
post-Saddam
Hussein
constitution
by
15
August,
despite
at
least
18
outstanding
items,
including
the
country's
official
name,
the
role
of
Islam,
a
definition
of
federalism
and
the
future
of
oil-rich
Kirkuk.
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Kashmir
separatists
say
fight
to
go
on
The
chief
of
the
largest
Muslim
separatist
group
fighting
security
forces
in
India's
portion
of
Kashmir
warned
that
"armed
struggle"
will
continue
until
the
disputed
Himalayan
territory
achieves
independence.
India
cannot
"eliminate
the
movement
of
jihad
(holy
war)
in
Kashmir,"
Syed
Salahuddin,
leader
of
the
Hizb-ul
Mujahedeen
organization,
said
on
Sunday
at
a
conference
on
Kashmir,
held
in
Pakistan's
capital,
Islamabad.
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Mauritanians
vow
support
for
coup
Jubilant
at
the
ousting
of
their
president,
Mauritanians
have
cast
aside
international
condemnation
and
pledged
support
for
a
military
junta
that
has
promised
to
lead
them
to
democratic
rule.
The
army
seized
power
on
Wednesday,
while
President
Maaouya
Ould
Sid'Ahmed
Taya
was
out
of
the
country,
and
installed
what
it
called the
Military
Council
for
Justice
and
Democracy
which
has
vowed
to
hold
presidential
polls
within
two
years
-
and
promised
none
of
its
members
will
stand.
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Several
killed
in
Afghan
clashes
Fighting
at
a
rebel
hideout
in
southern
Afghanistan
has
left
eight
rebels
dead,
while
an
attempted
bombing
outside
a
US
base
was
thwarted
after
a
grenade
failed
to
explode,
officials
says.
The
assailant
had
a
second
grenade
and
two
landmines
hidden
on
his
body
when
he
approached
Camp
Salerno,
an
American
base
in
eastern
Khost
province,
asking
for
medical
help
on Friday,
the
US
military
said
in
a
statement
on
Sunday.
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Palestinian
judges
strike
over
anarchy
The
Palestinian
judiciary
has
called
a
strike
for
the
second
day
in
a
row
in
protest
over
attacks
against
Gaza's
chief
justice
and
attorney
general.
The
judges
are
threatening
to
suspend
their
work
until
the
Palestinian
Authority
addresses
the
continuing
state
of lawlessness
in
Gaza. The
strike
comes
as
Zuhair
Sourani,
the
chairman
of
the
Palestinian
Authority's
Higher
Judicial
Council,
announced
his
resignation
on
Saturday.
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Venezuela
snaps
drug
ties
with
US
Venezuelan
President
Hugo
Chavez has
dismissed
cooperation
with
the
US
Drug
Enforcement
Administration
as
unnecessary
thus
taking his
country's
fraying
ties
with
the
United
States
to
a
new
low.
The
Venezuelan
leader,
an
ally
of
Communist
Cuba
and
harsh
critic
of
US
foreign
policy,
said
he
had
suspended
cooperation
with
the
DEA
and
accused
the
agency
of
spying
against
his
government.
"The
DEA
was
used
as
a
cover...
to
carry
out
intelligence
work
in
Venezuela
against
this
government,"
Chavez
told
reporters
as
he
voted
in
local
municipal
elections.
"Under
these
circumstances,
we
decided
to
shut
down
these
agreements...
the
DEA
is
not
essential
to
the
fight
in
Venezuela
against
drug-trafficking.
We
will
keep
working
with
international
organizations
against
drugs,"
he
said. Declining
relationsA
spokesman
at
the
US
embassy
in
Venezuela
could
not
be
contacted
for
comment.
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Kurdish
unrest
in
Iran
kills
two
Two
people
have
been
killed,
eight
injured
and
145
arrested
in
renewed
unrest
among
the
Kurds
of
western
Iran,
the
Interior
Ministry
has
said.
The
ministry
offered
only
vague
details
on
the
deaths
and
arrests
in
the
town
of
Saqqez,
which
followed
rioting
and
a
gun
battle
elsewhere
in
Kurdish-dominated
territories
in
July.
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Israel
arrests
three
linked
to
shooting
Israeli
police
have
detained
three
right-wing
Israelis
suspected
of
involvement
in
anti-Arab
activities,
in
the
wake
of
a
deadly
shooting
of
four
Israeli
Arabs
by
a
Jewish
militant
last
week.
Defence
Minister
Shaul
Mofaz
ordered
their
detention
after
receiving
intelligence
information
about
their
alleged
involvement
in
"violent
ideological
activities
against
Arabs,"
a
ministry
spokeswoman
said
on
Sunday.
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Thousands
march
in
Kashmir
rally
Thousands
of
supporters
have turned
out for
a
rally
by
separatist
leader
Syed
Ali
Geelani
in
Indian-administered
Kahsmir.
Geelani
vowed
to
continue
the
struggle
until
the
territory
is
merged
with
Pakistan.
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London
blast
attempt
suspect
charged
One
month
to
the
day
after
the
London
bombings
that
claimed
56
lives,
police
have
charged
their
first
key
suspect
in
a
failed
attempt
two
weeks
later
to
repeat
the
attacks.
Yassin
Hassan
Omar,
24,
a
Somali
living
in
north
London,
will
appear
before
a
judge
in
a
high-security
prison
charged
with
attempted
murder,
conspiracy
and
possession
of
explosives,
the
Metropolitan
Police
said
in
a
statement.
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Cuban
singer
Ibrahim
Ferrer
dies
Ibrahim
Ferrer,
the
mild-mannered
singer
of
the
Buena
Vista
Social
Club
group
that
took
him
from
shining
shoes
to
world
fame
late
in
life,
has
died
in
Havana,
his
manager
says.
Ferrer
was
78.
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Iraq
sees
violence
across
the
country
Fighters
have
killed
at
least
35
people
in
a
series
of
attacks
throughout
Iraq,
while
clashes
between
police
and
protesters
in
a
poor
southern
Shia
town
added
to
the
day's
death
toll,
security
officials
say.
Seven
Iraqi
soldiers
were
killed
and
17
wounded
when
a
bomber
blew
up
a
truck
at
the
entrance
to
an
Iraqi
army
headquarters
in
central
Tikrit,
180km
north
of
Baghdad,
an
Iraqi
army
officer
said.
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North
Korea
nuclear
talks
suspended
Envoys
to
North
Korean
disarmament
talks
have
announced
a
three-week
recess
after
13
days
of
meetings,
deadlocked
over
what
the
North
would
receive
for
renouncing
atomic
weapons
and
its
insistence
on
retaining
a
peaceful
nuclear
programme.
Talks
are
to
resume
the
week
of
29
August,
Chinese
Vice-Foreign
Minister
Wu
Dawei
said
on
Sunday.
However,
he
warned:
"I
can't
say
for
sure
that
we
will
reach
agreement," even
after
the
break.
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Iran
seeks
united
front
with
Syria
Iran's
new
President
Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad
has
received
his
Syrian
counterpart,
the
first
head
of
state
to
visit
since
his
inauguration,
and
reiterated
that
the
two
countries
should
form
a
"united
front"
against
their
opponents.
President
Bashar
Assad
emphasized
terrorism
in
his
comments
after
arriving
in
Tehran
on
Sunday for
a
two-day
visit.
"Iran
and
Syria
should
pay
attention
to
terrorism,
which
is
spreading
in
the
Middle
East,"
Assad
said.
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Rescuers
seek
plane
crash
survivors
Rescue
teams have
been
scouring
the
waters
off
the
Sicilian
coast
for
two
people
missing
after
a
plane
carrying
Italian
tourists
to
Tunisia
crash-landed
at
sea
on
Saturday,
claiming
13
lives,
Italian
officials
say.
Twenty-three
people
were
rescued
from
the
wreckage
while
operations
continued
overnight
and
into
Sunday
morning
to
find
the
missing
-
the
plane's
technician
and
another
person
whose
identity
was
not
known
-
off
the
northwestern
coast
of
Sicily.
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Police,
protesters
clash
in
Iraqi
town
About
1000
protesters
have
clashed
with
Iraqi
police in
the
town
of
Samawa,
south
of
Baghdad,
leaving
at
least
one
person
dead
and
about
60
others
injured,
police
say.
The
protest
on
Sunday
was
over
the
poor
state
of
water
and
power
supplies.Witnesses
said
police
opened
fire
on
the
crowd.
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Palestinian
man
shot
dead
in
Rafah
A
Palestinian
has
been
killed
after
Israeli
soldiers
opened
fire
from
an
observation
post
in
the
southern
Gaza
Strip
not
far
from
the
border
with
Egypt,
Palestinian
medical
sources
say.
Muhammad
Qashta,
23,
died
in
hospital
after
being
shot
in
the
head
and
chest
near
Rafah
in
the
occupied
Palestinian
territory,
from
which
Israel
is
to
begin
removing
all
soldiers
and
settlers
this
month,
the
sources
said.
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South
African
gold
miners
go
on
strike
South
African
gold
miners
have launched
their
first
industry-wide
strike
in
18
years
to
demand
higher
wages
in
the
world's
biggest
bullion
producer,
the
country's
main
mining
union
said.
"I
can
say
now
that
the
strike
is
on,"
Gwede
Mantashe,
general
secretary
of
the
National
Union
of
Mineworkers
(NUM),
said
on
Sunday.
The
union
had
said
the
strike
would
start
across
the
country
at
6pm
local
time.
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Protesters
march
on
Bush's
ranch
About
70
anti-war
protesters
shouting
"bring
the
troops
home"
from
Iraq
have
gathered
near
President
George
Bush's
ranch,
prompting
two
White
House
officials
to
come
out
to
meet
mothers
who
lost
children
in
combat
in
Iraq.
National
Security
Adviser
Steven
Hadley
and
White
House
Deputy
Chief
of
Staff
Joe
Hagin
listened
to
the
concerns
of
Cindy
Sheehan
and
five
or
six
other
mothers
in
a
meeting
on
Saturday
that
lasted
about
45
minutes,
White
House
spokesman
Trent
Duffy
said.
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Israeli
cabinet
to
vote
on
evacuations
The
Israeli
cabinet
is
expected
to
give
the
final
go-ahead
for
the
evacuation
of
a
first
batch
of
Jewish
settlements
in
the
Gaza
Strip.
There
was
no
confirmation
from
Prime
Minister
Ariel
Sharon's
office
which
settlements
would
be
voted
on
at
the
weekly
cabinet
session,
but
an
official
on
Sunday
said
they
would
probably
be
the
three
most
isolated:
Netzarim,
Morag
and
Kfar
Darom.
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