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| Tue, 08 Nov 2005 08:11:05 EST France takes emergency steps to stop riots |
| France's Cabinet has approved emergency measures allowing local officials to impose curfews in communities at risk of rioting after the nation endured a 12th night of unrest. President Jacques Chirac says the new powers are "necessary to accelerate the return to calm." Other emergency powers allow police to carry out raids for suspected stockpiling of weapons. |
| Tue, 08 Nov 2005 09:03:53 EST Lawyer for Saddam co-defendant killed |
| U.S. forces uncovered a bomb-making factory and a weapons store on the fourth day of an operation to wrest control of the western Iraq town of Husayba from insurgents. |
| Tue, 08 Nov 2005 03:34:35 EST Terror raids net 17 in Australia |
| Australian authorities have arrested 17 people in a series of raids in two cities and seize firearms, computers and chemicals used in making bombs, police say. "We believe that we've been able to significantly disrupt a proposed terrorist attack here in Australia," New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney told Australian TV. Prominent Islamic cleric Abu Bakr, who has previously stated support for al Qaeda mastermind Osama Bin Laden, was among those arrested. |
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