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Mosques, Green Zone attacked despite Iraq curfew
BAGHDAD - Three Sunni Muslim mosques were torched and mortar bombs hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, police said, despite curfews imposed after suspected al Qaeda militants hit a revered Shi'ite shrine.
Thousands of Iraqi and US soldiers were on the streets of Baghdad and other cities trying to enforce the curfews that were imposed after yesterday's bombing, blamed on al Qaeda, felled the two golden minarets of Samarra's al-Askari mosque.
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Police end scrubland search for Madeleine
PRAIA DA LUZ - Portuguese police said they had no plans to further search the scrubland where a report said the body of missing Madeleine McCann could be buried.
Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf published an anonymous letter yesterday saying the four-year-old's body could be found "under branches or stones" 15 km from the Algarve resort where she disappeared from her bedroom on May 3.
Seven police searched the area the report mentioned on Wednesday.
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Australia starts discussions on building nuclear plant
CANBERRA - Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane has admitted the federal government has started discussions on building a nuclear enrichment plant in Australia, but said the plans are in their infancy.
ABC TV has reported that a proposal is being prepared for the government on building a uranium enrichment plant.
A company called Nuclear Fuel Australia was believed to be studying the feasibility of a A$2.5 billion ($2.81 billion) plant which could be operational by 2015.
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