Sadr City Truce Talks Spark Conflicting Reports
In Baghdad a one day truce was claimed by Iraqi officials after talks among U.S. forces Iraqi Shiite and tribal leaders to ease Sadr City clashes. U.S. troops denied any cease fire while violence continued in Mosul and oil pipelines were sabotaged reducing exports. Interim PM Ayad Allawi blamed renegade Mahdi Army members for the violence.
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Sadr
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Sadr City
Muqtada al-Sadr
Najaf
al-Sadr
Ayad Allawi
Maarouf Moussa Omran
Global conflict declines as peace efforts rise worldwide
War deaths fall to under 20,000 annually post World War II, while peace missions increase. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute cites 19 major conflicts in 2003 down from 33 in 1991. Project Ploughshares reports 36 armed conflicts in 2003, down from 44 in 1995.
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India
Monty G. Marshall
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Associated Press
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Stockholm Institute
Stockholm
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Russia
Chechnya
Algeria
Burundi
Peru
Indonesia
Aceh
Nepal
Sri Lanka
Israel
Turkey
Philippines
Marshall
University of Maryland
Somalia inaugurates transitional parliament
Somalia inaugurated a 275 member transitional parliament Sunday, a key step toward forming a new government amid ongoing clan rivalries. Members took oaths in Nairobi in a ceremony attended by regional diplomats and U.N. officials who pledged support for the fragile peace process, as clan leaders have met in Kenya since October 2002 aiming to restore order in the Horn of Africa nation.
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Somalia swears in transitional parliament amid unity hopes
Somalia unveils a 270 member transitional parliament after a long civil conflict. Dancers and singers celebrate as Abdulkadir Farah Guelid hails national unity while EU UN and regional actors push disarmament. The assembly will elect a speaker, then the president, who will appoint a prime minister to form a government.
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Abdulkadir Farah Guelid
Puntland
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United Nations
Somalia
China
Carlo Calia
Kenya
Bethuel Kiplagat
Kiplagat
France rushes foreign minister to Middle East over journalist abduction
President Chirac sent Foreign Minister Michel Barnier to the Middle East to press for the release of two French reporters seized in Iraq. He urged the captors to drop demands to overturn the head scarf ban within 48 hours, and his address emphasized France’s commitment to religious liberty and its Iraq policy.
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Ouest-France
Michel Barnier
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