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Top Stories Wikipedia Current Events his denial to grant a United Nations commission access to UN calls for further Syrian assassination of former Lebanese inmates at the Guantanamo Bay cooperation Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. detention center. The United The United Nations Security •Zanzibar's ruling Chama Cha Nations has been seeking access Council unanimously called on Mapinduzi party and President for almost four years now. Last Syria to detain suspects in the Amani Abeid Karume are week the offered to assassination of former Lebanese declared re-elected in a disputed let United Nations representatives Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. The election. Police clashed with visit the detention center, but they resolution stopped short of opposition supporters, leaving 9 refused to let United Nations threatening sanctions in the event dead. representatives visit the entire of non-compliance. detention facility or interview •2 Palestinian militants, one from detainees. Bush nominates Alito to U.S. Hamas, the other the Al Aqsa Supreme Court Martyrs Brigade, have died The United Nation's Special U.S. President George W. Bush following an Israeli air-strike in Rapporteur on torture and other nominated Judge Samuel Alito of the Gaza Strip. cruel, inhuman or degrading New Jersey as Associate Justice North Korea and South Korea will treatment or punishment, Manfred to the U.S. Supreme Court in a • field a united Olympics team at Nowak, told reporters on Monday formal announcement on Monday. the next Olympic Games. that even China does not impose such conditions for United Nations Featured story •Justice John Gomery releases the visits of prisons, and that the first part of the Gomery United Nations could not accept an Japan likely to change law to Commission report on corruption offer to visit the United States allow female heirs to the in the Liberal Party of Canada facility under conditions that are throne and the sponsorship scandal. different from other nations. He Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi Gomery exonerates current prime did show willingness to suggested yesterday that the minister Paul Martin but criticizes compromise on other controversial government would submit a draft former prime minister Jean questions as the duration of the allowing female heirs to the Chretien and his Quebec visit, which the United States Japanese Throne. lieutenant Alfonso Gagliano. seeks to limit to one day, and which individual United Nations Wikipedia Current Events •2005 Paris riots continue for the fifth consecutive night, sparked representatives should be involved •U.S. Senate Minority Leader by the death of two Muslim in the visit. Harry Reid and his fellow youths from electric shock. The Democrats force a closed session controversy caused by police The United States has voiced of the Senate over the recent firing tear gas into a mosque on objections to two of the proposed Lewis Libby indictment. Sunday night led to families of team of five United Nations inspectors; Leandro Despouy, •Two additional moons of Pluto the dead youths pulling out of a Special Rapporteur on the are discovered. meeting with the French Interior Minister. independence of judges and •The United Nations Security lawyers, and Paul Hunt, Special Council passed a UNSC resolution Rapporteur on the right of U.N. denied access to (S/RES/1636 (2005)) which everyone to the enjoyment of the Guantanamo inmates requests urgently and forcefully highest attainable standard of Syria's full cooperation with the physical and mental health. Paul Today United States Secretary of investigation into the Hunt in particular has expressed Defence Donald Rumsfeld renewed strong suspicion of torture having

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