A suicide car-bomb explosion in Baghdad has killed the head of the U-S-appointed Iraqi Governing Council, Abdul Zahra Othman Mohammad, better known as Izzedin Salim, died today(Monday) at a checkpoint just outside the headquarters of the U-S-led coalition in the Iraqi capital.
President Bush's top decurity aide says the United States ready to be "a partner with the Palestinian people" in the creation of their own state.
Burma's military rulers have opened a constitutional convention, despite a boycott by the country's pro-democracy opposition.
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