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1: Iraqi interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi admits that not all of the country will be able to vote in the coming elections. "There are some pockets that will not participate in the election, but they are not large," Allawi said. Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has ordered all Shiites to vote in the election. As the election nears, the United States claims there is a threat of Sunni uprising.
2: Intelligence officials in the United States have confirmed that their search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq ended in December. White House spokesperson Scott McClellan said that the CIA Iraq Survey Group now has their "a lot of their mission is focused elsewhere."
3: The search for survivors and bodies continues after Monday's mudslide in La Conchita, California. Despite the threat of mudslides, local resident Jack Falk told ABC News he would "desire to live nowhere else in the country." Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has promised aid to the help the community.
4: The United States and several other wealthy nations have offered to freeze debt repayments from countries affected by the South-Asian tsunami, including Indonesia which owes US$48 billion to creditor nations. Rebel's in Indonesia's Aceh province have offered another cease-fire to allow recovery efforts in the province to continue. In Banda Aceh, where aid workers are based, the city's poorer residents are the hardest hit by the disaster. So far at least US$5.5 has been offered in aid and an Indian Ocean earthquake tsunami warning system should be established by June 2006.
5: In the British version of reality series Big Brother, author Germaine Greer has quit, saying she had regrets at appearing in the show in the first place. Leaving in tears, she says she felt humiliated by being in what she called a "fascist prison" and will contribute to an Australian rainforest project in other ways.
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1: Five dead and another ten were wounded after a Palestinian suicide bombing by Fatah militants at the Kami crossing point in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian terrorists threw mortar shells at ambulances and Israeli forces returned fire. Two Palestinians were killed by Israelis in the Gaza Strip, including a man driving a pregnant woman to hospital who troops suspected was a militant. Palestinian violence has increased despite President Mahmoud Abbas calling an end to the violence.
2: Sheikh Mahmoud al-Madaini, an aide to Shiite leader Grand Ayatollah Sistani, has been assassinated near the Iraqi capital of Baghdad after Wednesday evening prayers. His son and four bodyguards were also killed in the incident, which is one of a series of recent attacks linked to Sunni insurgents who oppose the coming Iraqi elections.
3: Colombian Defence Minister Jorge Alberto Uribe has finally admitted the government employed a bounty hunter to capture rebel leader Rodrigo Granda from Venezuelam after weeks of denial. Vice President Francisco Santos has now publicly offered rewards to bounty hunters to capture other rebels.
4: Israel has joined Jews in Britain and around the world to criticize Britain's Prince Harry for wearing a NAZI uniform to a fancy dress party. The Board of Deputies of British Jews says Prince Harry's choice of costume "was clearly in bad taste, especially in the run-up to holocaust memorial day.’’ The British royal family has issued an apology to all those offended.
5: The U.S. Federal Government has revamped the food pyramid in an attempt to stop growing obesity rates. Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says the new government food guidelines are simply common sense. The guidelines include suggestions to limiting sugars, fats, salts and sweeteners and eating plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables.
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1: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has issued the military to act 'without restrictions' against Palestinian military forces. New president Mahmoud Abbas was officially sworn in yesterday, but Prime Minister Sharon said he was 'yet to see them taking any action whatsoever to halt the terrorism' from the new president since the election. Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organization has issued a surprising request to Palestinian militants to stop fighting.
2: Twenty more American soldiers are to be taken to military court for prisoner abuse, including one soldier convicted of murdering a prisoner, a Pentagon official said today. Charles Graner, a 36-year-old convicted of sexual and physical abuse of Abu Ghraib detainees, was sentenced to 10 years over the weekend.
3: Chinese Communist Party Secretary Zhao Ziyang, who was dismissed after the Tiananmen Square democracy protests of 1989, died today aged 85. Having been under house arrest for the past fifteen years and has been in a coma in hospital for the past week.
4: Around 80 detainees have been released from three American prisons in Afghanistan in an attempt to bring peace in the country and stop militant fighting from Taliban loyalists. The government is considering releasing hundreds of other rebels as well.
5: Award season began today as the Golden Globes celebrated the best in television and film. Clive Owen and Natalie Portman of "Closer" had surprise wins for best supporting actor and actress awards.
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