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Mr Paul Bremer, the civil administrator of Iraq, was recalled to Washington for talks as the United States prepared for an early withdrawal. Six more American soldiers were killed when their Black Hawk helicopter was forced down on the banks of the Tigris. At least 12 Italians were killed when their police headquarters in Nasiriyah were destroyed by a lorry bomb. An explosion on a road used by British soldiers in Basra killed six Iraqi civilians. A car bomb attributed to al-Qa’eda killed 18 and injured dozens in a compound for mostly Muslim foreign workers at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the United States had closed its embassy earlier in the day because of intelligence about a terrorist threat. Turkey decided not to send troops to Iraq after all. As crowds of protesters gathered, President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia left the capital for talks with Aslan Abashidze, the leader of the Revival party, which came second in the disputed elections of 2 November. President Chandrika Kumaratunga of Sri Lanka, who rebel Tamil Tigers say is impeding peace talks, clashed with the Prime Minister, Mr Ranil Wickremesinghe; Parliament was suspended and an emergency declared. The Prime Minister of Japan, Mr Junichiro Koizumi, retained a simple majority after elections when the New Conservative party said it would merge with the Liberal Democrats, who have dominated politics for 50 years. The Revd Canaan Banana, President of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987, who was later jailed on possibly false charges of sodomy, died, aged 67. Iranian police broke up a disappointed crowd in Qom who had come to see the rumoured execution of a half-woman half-tiger.
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