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In Iraq 16 American soldiers were killed when their helicopter was shot down near Fallujah. Dr Gene Robinson, an active homosexual, was consecrated Anglican Bishop of New Hampshire at an ice rink in Durham, NH, at which Dr David Bena, Suffragan Bishop of Albany, New York, read a letter from 36 bishops protesting that Dr Robinson’s ‘lifestyle is incompatible with scripture and the teachings of this Church’. ‘God will not be mocked,’ commented Dr Benjamin Nzimbi, the Primate of Kenya, and the organisation Primates of the Global South, said to represent 50 million of the world’s 70 million Anglicans, refused to recognise the consecration. French police arrested five people from Brittany on suspicion of providing support for the Real IRA after three firearms and ammunition were found in Normandy. A telephone poll of 7,515 people carried out for the European Union found that 59 per cent thought that Israel posed a ‘threat to world peace’, followed by Iran, North Korea and the United States, each of which 53 per cent identified as a threat. A constitution calling Afghanistan a moderate Islamic republic, with no mention of Sharia law, was presented after a year’s work by the Constitutional Review Commission; it will go to a loya jirga, a grand tribal convention, next month. Professor Richard Neustadt, the political philosopher, died, aged 84. Mr Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Russia’s richest man, resigned as the head of the oil company Yukos a week after being arrested and held in a Moscow jail. The number of houses burnt by wild fires in California rose to more than 3,500. Prince Felipe, the heir to the Spanish throne, is to marry a divorced television news reader.
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