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| Global update | Today Saturday Sunday High: 58 High: 55 High: 54 Low: 48 Low: 43 Low: 46 Precip: 30% Precip: 80% Precip: 40% IN BRIEF Weakened Arafat heads to Paris for treatment RAMALLAH, West Bank — An ailing Yasser Arafat — too weak to stand, unable to hold down food and spending most of Thursday sleeping — agreed to leave his bat tered West Bank compound for the first time in more than two years and fly to Paris for urgent medical treatment. The 75-year-old Palestin ian leader’s planned departure Friday, a decade after he arrived in the West Bank with the promise of statehood, could mark the end of an era. Arafat, who hoarded power and declined to groom a suc cessor, leaves behind a people in disarray. Insurgents slaughter 11 Iraqi soldiers BAGHDAD, Iraq — Insurgents slaughtered 11 Iraqi soldiers, be heading one, then shooting the oth ers execution-style, and declared on an Islamic militant Web site Thurs day that Iraqi fighters will avenge “the blood” of women and children killed in U.S. strikes on the guerrilla stronghold of Fallujah. The wave of foreigner kidnappings claimed an other victim — a Polish woman in her 60s who is married to an Iraqi. Her captors demanded that Poland withdraw its 2,400 soldiers and that the U.S.-led coalition free all Iraqi women held at Abu Ghraib prison. UN urges US to lift sanctions on Cuba UNITED NATIONS — For the 13th straight year, the U.N. General Assembly overwhelmingly urged the United States to end its more than four decade trade embargo against Cuba, rejecting Washing ton’s argument that Fidel Castro is “a tyrant” who denies basic human rights to Cubans. The Cuban-sponsored resolution calling for the embargo to be re pealed “as soon as possible” was approved by a vote of 179-4 with one abstention, very similar to last year’s vote of 179-2 with two abstentions. The resolution is not legally bind ing and Cuba’s Foreign Minister Fe lipe Perez Roque said the U.S. gov ernment has ignored it for the last 12 years. But he said “that does not diminish the importance and mo mentousness” of the vote to the Cuban people and to show the worldwide opposition to the 43 year-old trade embargo. Trial begins for Cleric tied to Bali bombing JAKARTA, Indonesia — A Mus lim cleric accused of heading the terror group blamed for the Bali bombings proclaimed his innocence as his trial opened Thursday, and said the charges were the work of President Bush and “his slave” — Australian Prime Minister John Howard. Abu Bakar Bashir is charged with heading the al-Qaida-linked group Jemaah Islamiyah and with involve ment in two attacks — the Bali nightclub bombings and a suicide blast at the J.W. Marriott Hotel in Jakarta last year. The United States and Australia also accuse the 66-year-old cleric of being a key Southeast Asian terror leader. “I am innocent. The charges are baseless,” a relaxed-looking Bashir told reporters before the trial began. “All those people who do not agree with the interests of George Bush are called terrorists,” Bashir said. FBI investigating Halliburton contracts WASHINGTON, D.C. — The FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon improperly awarded no bid contracts to Halliburton Co., seeking an interview with a top Army contracting officer and col lecting documents from several gov ernment offices. The line of inquiry expands an earlier FBI investigation into whether Halliburton over charged taxpayers for fuel in Iraq, and it elevates to a criminal matter the election-year question of whether the Bush administration showed favoritism to Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company. Rumsfeld suggests explosives were moved WASHINGTON, D.C. — Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld sug gested Thursday that the removal of 377 tons of explosives from an Iraqi munitions base probably took place before U.S. forces arrived, saying any large effort to loot the material afterward would have been detect ed. “We would have seen anything like that,” he said in one of two ra dio interviews he gave Thursday at the Pentagon. “The idea it was sud denly looted and moved out, all of these tons of equipment, I think is at least debatable.” Peru students drown in Lake Titicaca LIMA, Peru — Eleven people, in cluding nine high school students and their teacher, were killed when their boat was upended by high winds on Lake Titicaca, officials said Thursday. The boat filled with water and sank Wednesday night as the stu dents — aged between 12 and 16 — returned from a school excursion to a local island, said Dr. Humberto Quispe, from the regional hospital in Yunguyo, 980 kilometers (607 miles) southeast of Lima. Three 16-year-old survivors were pulled from the waters, Quispe said. Titicaca, the world's highest navi gable lake at 3,811 meters (12,503 feet) above sea level, straddles Peru and Bolivia and is a popular tourist at traction, famous for its floating is lands made out of reeds. Moscow to install vehicle checkpoints at city schools MOSCOW — Moscow authorities plan to install video cameras, erect fences and set up vehicle check points at the city's public schools to prevent terrorist attacks like the Beslan school hostage seizure last month, Deputy Mayor Valery Shant sev said Thursday. Shantsev said the measures, which were approved by a regional anti-ter rorism commission, also include "panic buttons” that would allow ad ministrators to communicate with law enforcement in case of emer gency, according to the ITAR-Tass news agency. Video cameras will monitor schools inside and out and guards will be stationed at entries to check vehicles, he said. 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