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Bush Seeks Unity In US

Kelly Hayes - Jan 20, 2005 / 8:20 am | Story: 6586

In a city brimming with pageantry under fortress-like security, President George W. Bush looked ahead Wednesday to his second inauguration, pledging to seek unity in a country divided by political differences. "I am eager and ready for the work ahead," Bush declared. Offering a preview of Thursday's inaugural address, Bush said he would speak about freedom.Full story
Iraqi rebels unleashed a wave of car bombings across the capital Wednesday, killing about a dozen people, despite stepped-up U.S. and Iraqi measures to protect this month's elections. Iraqi police also said insurgents kidnapped a Japanese engineer but on Thursday officials in Tokyo cast doubt on the report, saying they had no information on the incident. North of Baghdad, rebels killed a British security officer, officials said. Full story
The United Nations will head up the effort to create a tsunami warning system in the Indian Ocean, an international conference on disaster prevention announced Thursday. The delegates of 150 countries attending the meeting in Kobe, Japan agreed in a draft resolution that the UN "would integrate regional disaster reduction strategies. Full story
The Ukrainian parliament voted Thursday to swear in president-elect Viktor Yushchenko this Sunday after the country's Supreme Court dismissed a final appeal of the election results by former prime minister Viktor Yanukovych. Despite the appeal, which included 600 volumes of documents and statements alleging fraud and procedural violations, the court confirmed Yushchenko's victory, saying there was insufficient evidence of electoral wrongdoing. Full story
The world's largest iceberg appears to have run aground, posing more problems to scientific bases on Antarctica and penguin colonies, where tens of thousands of chicks face starvation, scientists said Thursday. Experts had predicted that B15A - a 160-kilometre-long iceberg - would likely slam into a huge glacier near the U.S. McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica some time last weekend. Full story