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My Account My Profile Sign out. My Account. Read more. You may also like. Love the mag? Our newsletter hand-delivers its best bits to your inbox. A car bomb demolished part of an American-run hotel in Jakarta , killing ten people and injuring about Indonesian police said the explosives and methods used in the attack resembled those of last year's bombing of a nightclub in Bali, in which more than people died. Suspicion fell once again on Jemaah Islamiah, a shadowy organisation with alleged links to al-Qaeda.
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At least nine people were reported to have been killed in an attack on Jordan's embassy in Baghdad. A suicide bomber, presumed to be a rebel Chechen , drove a truck into a military hospital in Mozdok, in the Russian republic of North Ossetia, which borders Chechnya, killing at least 50 people. Israel released about Palestinian prisoners in a goodwill gesture. The Palestinians complained that releases had been promised last week, and that many of those freed were near the end of their sentences.
The emir of Qatar , who overthrew his own father in , has named his younger son as crown prince, replacing the elder one. Jordan's newly elected parliament has thrown out a temporary law, introduced by the government and backed by the king, which gave women the right to file for divorce.
The first members of a west African peacekeeping force were cheered when they arrived in Liberia. Charles Taylor , the country's embattled president, promised to step down on August 11th, but said he would refuse to leave the country unless war-crimes charges against him were dropped.
He said the charges were politically motivated. A United Nations Security Council resolution supported a proposal that Western Sahara become a semi-autonomous region of Morocco for a transition period of up to five years, after which the Saharawis would vote by referendum on independence, autonomy or integration. Hiroshima marked the anniversary on August 6th of the world's first atomic bombing by inviting North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Il, to the city. North Korea is believed to be making nuclear weapons.
He was involved in secretly transferring money to North Korea to improve relations between the two countries. Benazir Bhutto , a former prime minister of Pakistan, and her husband were found guilty by a Swiss court of money laundering and given suspended sentences of six months in jail.

Miss Bhutto lives in exile in London. Her husband is in jail in Pakistan. Azerbaijan's parliament appointed Ilham Aliev prime minister and official heir to his ailing year-old father, President Heidar Aliev, who has run the country most of the time as part of the Soviet Union for most of the past 34 years.
In the first big legislative test of Lula da Silva's seven-month presidency, the lower house of Brazil's Congress approved his government's pension reform, after some watering down of details. Brazil's currency and its bonds, which had sagged for several days, recovered somewhat. Two shaky Andean goverments enjoyed opposite fortunes. In Canada, troops joined firefighters and a fleet of 27 aircraft and helicopters battling forest fires which ravaged southern British Columbia, forcing the evacuation of 10, people.
Forest fires also struck the southern half of Europe, destroying at least , hectares , acres of woodland and killing at least 30 people. After much speculation, Arnold Schwarzenegger finally declared that he would join the race to replace Gray Davis as California's governor.
So did Cruz Bustamante, the lieutenant-governor, who became the first Democrat to break ranks and oppose Mr Davis. His lawsuit contended that electoral machinery would not be ready for October 7th, and that the election was unfair. Mr Robinson is now the first openly gay bishop in the worldwide Anglican church. America's senior bishops finally approved his selection, but only after last-minute charges of sexual misconduct were rejected.
After 36 years in the Senate, Ernest Hollings of South Carolina said that he will not seek re-election in His decision opens up a second southern Democratic seat that the Republicans are now expected to gain.
The American army is investigating an outbreak of pneumonia in the Persian Gulf region that has killed two soldiers and infected more than others, but said there is no evidence that the cases were caused by exposure to chemical or biological weapons. The hunt for Saddam Hussein got hotter, with American troops capturing a man said to be one of the former dictator's bodyguards. An audiotape, purportedly recorded by Saddam and broadcast by an Arab satellite station, acknowledged the deaths of his sons and grandson and called them martyrs.
Ariel Sharon , visiting President George Bush in the steps of the Palestinian prime minister, said he would continue building Israel's controversial security fence. The Saudi security services continued to pursue terrorist suspects, six of whom were killed in a shoot-out in north-western Saudi Arabia. America angered the Saudis by rejecting their request to declassify the section of a congressional report on September 11th that some say accuses the Saudi government of helping the terrorists. Rebels seized Liberia ' s second city, the port of Buchanan, but government troops counterattacked.
A promised Nigerian-led west African peacekeeping force still failed to materialise, but America tabled a resolution at the UN preparing the ground for its deployment. Omar Bongo, Gabon's president for 35 years, secured a constitutional change that could let him remain in power indefinitely. Turkey's parliament passed new laws to reduce the ability of the country's army to interfere in politics. Earlier, another law was enacted to give a partial amnesty to fighters of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, better known as the PKK , some 5, of whom are in mountain refuges in northern Iraq.
Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul, visited Washington to discuss the possibility of Turkish troops serving as peacekeepers in Iraq but not in the Kurdish north of the country under the aegis of the United States. It remains unclear whether the troops will be sent. A crisis within Italy's ruling four-party coalition was patched up when the justice minister said that a judicial inquiry into the business affairs of the prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, should be allowed to go ahead after all, even though he recently acquired immunity from prosecution while in office.
Otherwise the smallest coalition partner had threatened to withdraw, while the second-biggest, the post-fascist National Alliance, had also objected. France's president, Jacques Chirac, on a tour of the Pacific, said that his country's testing of nuclear devices in the area had created no risk of a health hazard from radiation. But he said that France would accept responsibility if proof of such damage emerged. Four tourists died in fires that destroyed thousands of acres of forest in the south of France. A local man was charged with starting some of the blazes. The area has not seen rain for months.
Contrary to our mistaken report last week, Platon Lebedev of Yukos, Russia's biggest oil company, is still in jail, and the stand-off between Yukos and prosecutors investigating the firm continues. California's Assembly finally agreed to pass a budget, six weeks after the constitutional deadline to do so had lapsed. America's prison population grew by 2. One in ten black men aged between 25 and 29 was behind bars.
The keenest incarcerator is Louisiana, with prisoners for every , residents. Attempts by the Texas legislature to redraw the state's congressional seats were again delayed after 11 Democratic senators flew to Albuquerque, New Mexico. This denied Republicans the quorum they need to pass the law. Bob Hope , one of America's best-loved comedians, died at the age of Half a million of his old jokes, many unused, are deposited in the Library of Congress.
Japan is unlikely to comply. Cuba's president, Fidel Castro, devoted much of a speech marking a revolutionary anniversary to attacking the European Union. He said he would refuse EU humanitarian aid. This was a response to the EU 's criticism of Cuba's human-rights abuses.
Argentina's government revoked a decree banning the extradition of military officers on human-rights charges. A mutiny led by young army officers in the Philippines , calling for the government's resignation, was ended without bloodshed. The country's army intelligence chief, Brigadier-General Victor Corpus, resigned. Despite international pressure on Myanmar to free Aung San Suu Kyi , the country's detained opposition leader, its foreign minister, Win Aung, refused to name a date for her release.
Red Cross officials who saw her in prison on July 29th said she was in good health. The ruling Cambodian People's Party was heading for certain victory in a general election, according to projections, but would fall short of the two-thirds majority in the National Assembly needed to pass legislation. A coalition government seems likely. An explosion in a fireworks factory in Xinji, northern China , killed some 29 people and injured more than Taliban guerrillas shot dead a member of a Muslim organisation that had said Muslims should support the American-backed government of Afghanistan.
A message from Saddam, apparently recorded two days earlier, urged resistance to continue; two American soldiers were killed immediately after the sons' deaths, and three more the next day. George Bush said the death of Saddam's sons should reassure Iraqis that the former regime would not come back. Rebels continued their assault on Liberia's capital Monrovia. A force of about 1, Nigerian peacekeepers, now in Sierra Leone, is supposed to be redeployed to Liberia in about a week.
After strong disagreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority over the number of Palestinian prisoners that Israel is prepared to release, Mahmoud Abbas set off for his first visit as prime minister to President George Bush in Washington. Ariel Sharon will follow him there next week. In a wide security sweep, Saudi Arabia arrested 16 suspected al-Qaeda supporters.