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A 1,000lb suicide bomb in a van killed 20, including two American civilian contractors, outside the coalition headquarters in Baghdad. Thousands of supporters of the Iraqi Shi’ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husseini al-Sistani demonstrated in favour of elections instead of the nomination of a legislative assembly due to take over administration from the Americans on 1 July. Mr Paul Bremer, the chief administrator, sought from Mr Kofi Annan, the secretary-general of the United Nations, the return of UN workers to Baghdad. A car bomb exploded outside the Pakistan Bible Society in Karachi, injuring 20. The Albanian government said that American and Italian experts would help it find ways to combat the smuggling of people; on 9 January, 21 people died of exposure on a boat stranded in the Ionian Sea. Three more cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome were reported from Guangdong province in China, one of them a waitress in a restaurant that served civet cats, the creatures suspected of harbouring the Sars virus. Millions of chickens feared to have contracted avian influenza were slaughtered in South Korea, Japan and Vietnam (where five people have died from the virus). The Salvation Army was left $1.5 billion by Joan Kroc, the widow of the founder of McDonald’s. A Cairo court ruled that the ministry of employment was within its rights to deny a work permit to an Australian belly dancer. Excitement ran high as Faeroe islanders went to the polls after the collapse of the coalition between the Folkaflokkurin, the Tjodveldisflokkurin, the Midflokkurin and the Sjalvstyrisflokkurin; both the Sambandsflokkurin and the Javnadarflokkurin were confident of improving their representation in the 32-member Lagting.
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