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In case you weren't looking, I thought I would inform you that about 800,000 people gathered in Indonesia's second-largest city of Surabaya yesterday to pray for peace in the biggest anti-Iraq war event yet in the world's most populous Muslim nation.

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While the Bush administration confronts North Korea over development of nuclear weapons, it is allowing the regime access to thousands of documents on nuclear technology as part of an electric power project, the Energy Department acknowledged.

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The first permanent international court for crimes against humanity will begin its work in The Hague on March 11th, but in a reflection of the Bush administration's opposition to the court, no U.S. official is scheduled to be present when the judges take their oaths in a 13th Century hall.
Continuing a process that started in 1946 when Nazi leaders went on trial for war crimes, 18 international jurists will be sworn in as judges of the new International Criminal Court, which has a mandate to hear cases involving genocide, mass murder and other atrocities.
Despite U.S. opposition, court officials put the best face on matters Monday in talking about plans for the gala inauguration, which will be attended by Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands, United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan and scores of visiting dignitaries, including two members of the Allied prosecution team at the Nuremberg trials.
"Tomorrow is about hope and about fighting injustice," said Edmond Wellenstein, a Dutch Foreign Ministry official who is in charge of getting the court on its feet. "The court, after this, is a reality."
The court has jurisdiction only in the 89 countries that have signed and ratified the 1998 Rome treaty establishing the court, or in cases referred to it by the Security Council.

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Clare Short's days as a cabinet minister were numbered last night as Tony Blair's close allies hit back at her devastating attack on his strategy on Iraq. Ms Short stunned the political world on Sunday by threatening to resign unless Britain won a fresh United Nations resolution before military action is taken in Iraq, branding Mr Blair's approach as "reckless".

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