Powell signals ECOWAS troop lead in Liberia mission
Secretary of State Colin Powell said West African nations should head the Liberian peacekeeping effort with U S support at first as Bush weighs a cease fire role. ECOWAS offered 1,000 troops while U S advisers assess needs to move them into Monrovia and determine ground presence.
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South Africa
Liberia
United States
Colin Powell
Powell
Bush
Africa
U.S
Monrovia
Ghana
Economic Community of
Ecowas
Oldest and most distant planet found in globular cluster
Astronomers report a giant planet about 13 billion years old and 5,600 light years away, orbiting a pulsar and a white dwarf in the globular cluster M4 in Scorpius. The system suggests planets formed early in the universe, with the planet twice Jupiter’s size and located in a star cluster containing ancient stars.
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Washington
Jupiter
Scorpius
Harvey Richer
University of British Columbia
Vancouver
Canada
NASA
Hubble Space Telescope
Bush pledges US help in Botswana AIDS fight
President Bush told Botswana, facing the world's highest AIDS rate, that the United States will be a strong partner against the epidemic. He cited progress and praised President Festus Mogae while Congress trims his $15 billion five year AIDS plan. Botswana's HIV rate remains high and flat since 2001.
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Gaborone
Botswana
Bush
Congress
U.S
Festus Mogae
Iraqi police in Fallujah demand distance from U.S. troops
Iraqi police marching on Fallujah mayor’s office urged American soldiers to abandon their base and quit posts within 48 hours to avoid crossfire as attacks on U.S. forces continued. In Ramadi Baqouba Mahmudiyah and Balad, soldiers were killed or wounded in a series of hostilities and non-hostile incidents.
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Iraq
U.S
Fallujah
Mahmudiyah
Baqouba
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Ramadi
Balad
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