Inspectors will enter Iraq on U.N. orders
The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a tough new resolution mandating that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein disarm his weapons of mass destruction or face “serious consequences” that would almost certainly mean war with Iraq. In response, the Iraq’s government accepted the U.N. resolution on Wednesday after the nation’s parliament rejected the United States resolution on Tuesday. The 15-to-nothing vote represented a significant achievement for the Bush administration. A minimum of nine votes and no veto was required for the resolution to pass.
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Stoning stopped
In Nigeria on Saturday, the government declared that it would prevent the stoning of a Nigerian woman due to enormous international pressure. The woman, Amina Lawal, was sentenced to death for committing the crime of adultery under the Islamic sharia law. The government chose to overrule the sentence despite its original decision in 2000 to not intervene with the newly adopted Sharia law in the northern states of Nigeria, according to CNN.
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Storms ravage states
Residents in 13 states were hit by storms this past weekend, extending into Monday, and 36 people were killed in what the National Weather Service has called one of the worst tornado outbreaks in November. Tennessee experienced the brunt of the storm – 17 people were killed, 95 injured and 150 homes completely destroyed. “The mountains were here to protect us - it’s like they just turned their back,” a Mossy Grove, Tenn. resident said according to The Washington Post. Mossy Grove lies between Lone Mountain and Little Brushy Mountain.
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New faces, old issues to be witnessed in Congress
With the Nov. 5 elections came a number of changes in Washington, including GOP control of the Senate and Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s expected takeover as House Democratic leader. Democratic whip Pelosi (D-Calif.) announced on Nov. 8 that she had gathered the votes necessary to become the next House Democratic leader. Her main opponent, Martin Frost, had earlier dropped out of the race and endorsed her for the position. Pelosi, who before Frost’s exit from the race had the endorsement of 105 Democratic House members, ended with 111 altogether.
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Jail time for '70s radical group
After more than a quarter of a century since the crime, four former members of the Symbionese Liberation Army pleaded guilty to the murder of Myrna Opsahl in 1975. The SLA was a leftist radical group that existed in the 1970s. The group’s purpose was to campaign violence in pursuit of what they considered to be revolutionary justice on behalf of minorities. The SLA received fame in 1974 when they kidnapped Patty Hearst, then 19, from her apartment in Berkeley, Calif.
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Around the World
A voice recording released by the media network Al-Jazeera is believed to contain the voice of Osama bin Laden. Some American officials thought bin Laden to be dead and intelligence officials are still analyzing the recording. The voice praised recent terror attacks throughout the world but did not take credit for any of the acts. He called the attacks “merely a reciprocal reaction to what Bush, the modern-day pharaoh, did by murdering our children in Iraq and what Israel, the ally of America, did in bombing houses of the elderly, women and children in Palestine, using American planes,” according to The New York Times.
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