Referendum rejects Brazil gun ban amid crime debate
Brazilians vote down a proposal to ban gun sales in a nationwide referendum. The campaign highlighted Brazil's high firearm deaths, with supporters arguing for home protection and opponents fearing crime. In Washington Steve Martin receives the Mark Twain Prize with tributes from Hanks Tomlin Keaton Short Danes and musicians.
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Martin Short
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Conservative mayor wins Poland runoff vote
Warsaw's conservative Mayor Lech Kaczynski won Poland's presidential runoff defeating pro market legislator Donald Tusk. The outcome supports a party led by his twin brothers pledging Roman Catholic values and strong welfare protections amid eroding social safety nets.
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Nigeria plane crash leaves 117 feared dead in Lagos
A Nigerian passenger jet with 117 aboard crashed after takeoff from Lagos. Officials and Red Cross teams found no survivors and described a grisly scene with mangled bodies and wreckage. The State Department noted one American on board while President Obasanjo urged prayers for those affected.
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Fidelis Onyenyiri
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Suicide car bombing rocks Baghdad square
An insurgent detonated a car bomb in downtown Tahrir Square injuring two police officers and two civilians. In the same day a roadside device hit three U.S. convoys wounding five soldiers as infections of violence mount in Baghdad amid escalating Iraq war tolls.
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Britain confirms deadly H5N1 bird flu in quarantine parrot
London reports that the parrot, imported from South America, died of the H5N1 avian flu strain. DEFRA notes spread by wild birds with cases in Russia Turkey and Romania, raising pandemic fears while monitoring migration and quarantine effectiveness.
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