Inspectors' visit hinges on Iraq removal of obstacles
United Nations chief weapons inspector Mohamed ElBaradei said Baghdad must allow private interviews with scientists and high altitude surveillance to proceed with a visit. He spoke after Iraq invited him and Hans Blix to return for talks before the February 14 report to the Security Council.
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North Korea Not Mobilizing Military, Pentagon Says
Pentagon officials say North Korea has not shown any major mobilization or buildup along the border with South Korea. Despite harsh rhetoric since October over uranium enrichment, there is no evident threatening posture, though officials spoke on condition of anonymity. North Korea denounced President Bush's State of the Union and pledged to defend its sovereignty and system.
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Derailment near Sydney Kills Nine in Ravine
A commuter train carrying college students and locals derailed south of Sydney in a ravine killing nine people and trapping dozens for hours. Rescuers hiked rugged terrain to reach four toppled double decker cars, smashing reinforced glass with rocks. Doctors and paramedics were lowered by helicopter as army troop carriers helped move the injured. all trapped were freed by evening with two bodies still at large.
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Big freeze shuts down Britain during winter chaos
Britain faced crippling winter conditions with airports closed and railways halted. About 200 flights into and out of Heathrow were canceled, Stansted largely shut, and highways gridlocked as thousands of commuters spent a night stranded in cars. Various services were disrupted across the country.
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Nurse given 10 year term for killing patients near Paris
In Versailles region a former nurse Christine Malevre aged 33 was sentenced to ten years in prison for administering lethal injections of morphine or potassium to six gravely ill patients at a Paris suburb hospital in 1997 and 1998. She was banned from the profession and acquitted in the death of a seventh patient at Mantes-la-Jolie. Families argued the punishment was too lenient.
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Vatican decrees bar transsexuals from religious life
The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued directives declaring transsexuals mentally unfit for admission to Roman Catholic religious orders and to expel those already in priesthood or religious life. Church leaders worldwide were instructed to implement the guidelines or refer cases to the Vatican body.
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Bombing near Kandahar kills at least 15 on bus
The Rambasi Bridge blast six miles south of Kandahar killed at least 15 people, with police blaming Taliban and al Qaida fugitives. The bus driver and a 12 year old boy survived, while Afghan soldiers nearby suffered earlier losses and the region faces ongoing insurgent threats.
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Polls show US and Australia back Iraq action
London AP reports that a 39 nation Gallup International survey taken Jan 15 to 25 shows strongest support for military action against Iraq in the United States and Australia, while about six in ten in France and Russia and half in Germany oppose it under any circumstances.
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