Sharon recovery expected as Netanyahu takes Likud lead
Doctors say Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected to fully recover from a mild stroke and leave hospital soon. With Sharon's illness, Benjamin Netanyahu was chosen to lead Likud in the March elections, while Kadima leads in polls though Sharon remains central to the campaign.
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China lifts official growth figure to 16.8 percent last year
China’s National Bureau of Statistics announced a 16.8 percent rise in last year, revising data after surveying service sectors seen as underreported. Li Deshui said growth data back to 1993 will be revised, placing China sixth largest economy behind the United States, Japan, Germany, Britain and France. Six individuals were indicted in Oslo over the theft of Edvard Munch’s The Scream and Madonna from the Munch Museum in 2004, with no names released. In Sydney, raids after race riots yielded weapons and possible white supremacist links, as police traced inciting text messages and prepared charges against a fifth suspect.
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Migrants' boat capsizes off Mauritania. 30 dead
A boat carrying Africans attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands capsized off Mauritania, killing 30. Rescue workers saved 14, as heavy winds lashed the area near Nouadhibou. The Canary Islands lie about 600 miles north in the Atlantic and many migrants die yearly seeking Europe.
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Afghan parliament opens after 30 years of exile
Afghanistan inaugurated its first popularly elected parliament in three decades with an emotional ceremony in Kabul. President Karzai tearfully hailed democracy as Cheney and his wife watched, amid a chamber with warlords, Westernized refugees, and educated women.
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First gay couple in United Kingdom win civil partnership
In Belfast Northern Ireland Grainne Close a social worker and Shannon Sickels a New York playwright became the first couple in the United Kingdom to receive legal recognition under a civil partnership law. They faced protests from evangelical Christians and support from gay rights activists as Scotland England and Wales prepared to follow.
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