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After three months of negotiation, Iraq settled the composition of its government, although some posts reserved for Sunni politicians remained in temporary hands. The level of violence there rose; in one incident a car bomb obliterated a tent full of mourners at the funeral of a Kurdish official in northern Iraq, killing about 30 people and wounding more than 50. In April about 570 Iraqis were killed, of whom 98 were policemen and 41 soldiers. In Cairo seven tourists were wounded when a man blew himself up and, in a separate incident, his sister and his fiancée shot at a tourist coach before, according to police, shooting themselves; Egypt rounded up 200 Islamist suspects in response. Iran said it was considering resumption of uranium enrichment, which had officially been suspended in 2003. Iran quietly opened its new Imam Khomeini airport in Tehran, a year after Revolutionary Guards prevented its opening under the management of a Turkish consortium. Mr Lien Chan, the leader of the Kuomintang party, returned to Taiwan from talks with the Chinese leadership with the gift of two pandas. The number who died in the Japanese train crash at Amagasaki rose to 107. Pope Benedict said at his first Sunday Angelus address that he hoped ‘that working conditions will be ever more respectful of the dignity of the human person’. Donald Herbert, a fireman in New York state, unable to communicate since an accident nine years ago damaged his brain, suddenly regained consciousness and asked, ‘How long have I been away?’
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