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JUNE 17 2005 (FRIDAY)

A Mudslide in San Antonio Senahu , Guatemala , kills 23 people, including several children. Most of the dead were of Maya n descent. (alternet)

The Murder weapon used to kill Leon Trotsky is purported to have surfaced in Mexico . (BBC)

A United Nation s investigation has concluded that Rafik Hariri , the former Prime Minister of Lebanon , was killed by a Truck Bomb . (BBC)

Controversial Pakistan i scientist AQ Khan is said to be stable after suffering a heart attack. (BBC)

In Kyrgyzstan , hundreds of protesters seize a government building in the capital of Bishkek . They support presidential candidate Urmat Baryaktadasov , who was denied registration because the government says he is also a citizen of Kazakhstan . Police later seized the building. (RIA Novosti) (CNN) (Guardian Unlimited) (BBC)

The 2005 Presidential Election begins in Iran . Most pre-voting polls favor Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani . (Middle East Online) (Al-Jazeera) (Reuters) (IHT)

Cambodia n police have arrested a security guard who allegedly planned the hostage drama in Siem Reap . (Channel News Asia) (Reuters)

The Supreme Court of the Republic Of China rejects the opposition's appeal to nullify the results of the 2004 Presidential Election . Chen Shui-bian won the election by a narrow majority. (Channel News Asia) (Bloomberg)

In the United Kingdom , the Uganda n-born Bishop of Birmingham Rt Rev Dr John Sentamu is named the new Archbishop Of York . He is the first ever black person to be appointed an Archbishop of the Church Of England . (BBC) (Reuters)

The Vatican announces that it has taken the unusual step of suspending the announced Beatification of the Reverend Leon Dehon in order to investigate charges of Anti-Semitism . AP

Dennis Kozlowski , the former chief executive of Tyco International , and Mark Swartz , its erstwhile chief financial officer, are found guilty by a New York state court Jury on all but one of 31 counts of grand larceny, conspiracy, falsifying business records and securities fraud. (Houston Chronicle)