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| Global update | Today Tuesday Wednesday High: 55 Low: 50 Precip: 30% High: 56 Low: 37 Precip: 20% High: 57 Low: 41 Precip: 80% IN BRIEF Captives in Afghanistan plead for release KABUL, Afghanistan — Militants re leased a video Sunday showing three frightened foreign U.N. hostages pleading for their release and threat ened to kill them unless U.N. and British troops leave Afghanistan and Muslim prisoners are freed from U.S. jails. In the tape, the hostages — An netta Flanigan of Northern Ireland, Fil ipino diplomat Angelito Nayan and Shqipe Habibi of Kosovo — are shown sitting hunched together against the bare wall of a room in an undisclosed location. The three answered ques tions from someone who is speaking to them in broken English from off camera. Unigain election results suggest regional shift MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay — Left ist candidate Tabare Vazquez de clared victory in Uruguay’s presi dential election Sunday after exit polls showed him surging past two rivals with a majority of the votes, apparently aligning this small South American country with a region wide political shift leftward. Victory for the 64-year-old Vazquez, who would become the first leftist president in Uruguayan history, would add the nation to Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela as countries where left ist or center-left leaders came to power on public disenchantment with finan cial turmoil and with U.S.-backed free market economic policies. — The Associated Press [ ELECTION 2004 States to decide on gay marriage Eleven states have proposed state constitutional amendments prohibiting same-sex marriage on their Nov. 2 ballots. 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The Chechens have accused the Russians of human rights viola tions and war crimes. “If (President Vladimir) Putin doesn't want peace, we'll wait until he leaves or if we can we'll send him directly to hell,” Basayev said in an interview published on Chechen press.com, a Chechen Web site. “Five years of war have gone quick ly, another five or ten years will go just as fast.” Basayev has claimed responsibili ty for some of the most audacious terror attacks inside Russia, includ ing the Sept. 1-3 hostage-taking in North Ossetia, which left more than 330 people dead, half of them chil dren. The Federal Security Service has offered a reward of $10.3 million for information that could help “neutralize” him. The interview dated from Oct. 14 featured Basayev's responses to e mail questions posed by Toronto’s Globe and Mail newspaper to another Chechen Web site, the site said. There was no way to independently confirm the authenticity of the interview. “Our aim isn't to kill people, espe cially children, but to stop the geno cide of the Chechen people and de fend freedom and independence,” Basayev reportedly wrote. “There fore, we are forced to resort to ex tremes, which we are not ourselves happy with.” Basayev said that “if Putin would begin to observe international law, then we would automatically begin to observe it.” He added that such a move would “even be advantageous for us,” but stressed the rebels wouldn’t do that “unilaterally.” He also insisted that most Chechen rebels fight independently in small groups and organize their own financing, saying that his pres ence in Chechnya was rarely re quired. In 2003, Basayev said he was only in Chechnya for two weeks “and the majority of the mu jahadeen didn't even notice.” Meanwhile, a car bomb exploded Sunday outside the Chechen capi tal's main hospital, injuring 17 peo ple in an attack that apparently tar geted members of a Chechen security force bringing their wound ed for treatment after an earlier ex plosion, officials said. The first explosion struck a vehi cle carrying the Chechen security troops on a highway in the outskirts of the capital, Grozny, Federal Secu rity Service spokesman Maj. Gen. Ilya Shabalkin said on Russia's NTV television. Then, as the injured were being taken into Grozny's hospital No. 9, a second car exploded outside the building, he said. Tehran's atomic activities continue with passage of bill The government will resume uranium enrichment, although pressure to suspend the process grows BY ALI AKBAR DAREINI THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEHRAN, Iran — Defiant law makers shouting “Death to Ameri ca” unanimously voted Sunday to approve the outline of a bill requir ing the government to resume ura nium enrichment, a move likely to deepen an international dispute over Tehran’s atomic activities. Nevertheless, Iran’s top nuclear negotiator, Hossein Mousavian, told The Associated Press in an ex clusive interview that a compro mise could still be reached with European negotiators to avert the risk of U.N. sanctions. Britain, France and Germany have offered Iran a trade deal and peaceful nuclear technology — including a light-water research reactor — in re turn for assurances Iran would indefi nitely stop enriching uranium. Urani um enriched to a low level can be used to produce nuclear fuel, but if enriched further it can be used to make nuclear weapons. While lawmakers were discussing the bill, Mousavian ruled out an in definite suspension of enrichment activities. But he suggested Iran would consider halting the building of more nuclear facilities, which it would need to produce enough fuel for additional power plants. Washington has accused Iran of trying to build atomic weapons and has pushed for the case to be referred to the U.N. Security Council for possi ble sanctions if Tehran doesn’t give up all uranium-enrichment activities before a Nov. 25 meeting of the Inter national Atomic Energy Agency, the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog. “I see the chance of a compro mise before November as 50-50,” Mousavian told the AP. “We have rejected two possibilities: IRAN, page 10A CIP FOOTBALL RAFFLE FOOTBALL AUTOGRAPHED BY THE 2000 DUCKS TEAM Raffle Tickets $1 All proceeds benefit CIP’s Building Blocks Program, which educates 5th graders on the importance of higher education. Tickets on sale^Tig^ Nov. Pr, 9-I lam, tomorrow, Nov. 2nd, 11 am-I pm by the EMU ticket booth Community Internship Program 020610
