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The Pope was buried at the spot vacated by the moving of the body of John XXIII from the crypt of St Peter’s. More than two million people had filed past his body lying in state. During his funeral, attended by four kings, five queens and more than 70 heads of state, the Prince of Wales had to shake hands with President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. A week after attempting to use explosives to break into the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad, insurgents supported by al-Qa’eda attacked an American base in western Iraq with three car bombs, wounding three marines and three civilians. The new President of Iraq, Mr Jalal Talabani, said he hoped that the new interim Prime Minister, Mr Ibrahim al-Jaafari, would have formed a cabinet within a week. Thousands of Israeli police prevented 300 supporters of the right-wing Revava (‘Multitude’) party from storming the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. President George Bush of the United States, meeting Mr Ariel Sharon, the Prime Minister of Israel, at his ranch at Crawford, Texas, asked him not to expand the West Bank’s largest settlement, Maaleh Adumim, by 3,650 households as planned, cutting off Arab neighbourhoods in Jerusalem from the rest of the West Bank. The Israeli military attaché presented aerial photos of Iranian nuclear installations during the meeting at Crawford. China was accused in a report by Human Rights Watch and Human Rights in China of trying to ‘smother Islam’ among the Uighur people of Xinjiang province. Andrea Dworkin, the American feminist, died, aged 58. More than 20,000 people were evacuated from the slopes of Mount Talang, a volcano 25 miles east of Padang city on the Indonesian island of Sumatra, when it began to spew out ash.
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