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The World Trade Organization declares United States Tariff s on Steel imports inconsistent with Free Trade , opening the way for the European Union to impose punitive tariffs on goods of US origin. [http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=B0B066D9-AE0C-473A-97DAEB321A1C79D3

has agreed to hear appeals by 16 people detained at Guantanamo Bay . The Supreme Court will consider whether alleged Illegal Combatant s held by the United States since the War In Afghanistan can use American Courts to challenge their detainment. [http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml;jsessionid=2LK45WXG2ZZQICRBAEOCFEY?type=topNews&storyID=3791927 [http://www.iht.com/articles/117176.html

In India , heavy rain boosts economic growth forecasts for the Indian economy. {Link without Title}

In the United Kingdom , Michael Howard , new leader of the Conservative Party , announces his first Shadow Cabinet ; membership is trimmed down to 12 from 26. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3255441.stm

Alliance Capital Management , owned by AXA , fires 2 senior executives as a result of enquiries into mutual fund abuses. {Link without Title}

Occupation Of Iraq :

--- An array of senior figures in the United States criticize the case the Bush administration used to go to war with Iraq ; they state that there never was a Clear And Present Danger . {Link without Title}

--- Paul Bremer says that attacks on coalition forces in Iraq will get worse unless intelligence improves; he says several hundred terrorists have entered Iraq from neighbouring countries. {Link without Title}

Security officials in Saudi Arabia order 4600 extra troops into Mecca to provide increased security during Ramadan , saying that additional attacks could occur at any moment. {Link without Title}

Questions surround Yasser Arafat after further allegations about money moved out of the West Bank to secret bank accounts. [http://www.intelligence.org.il/eng/bu/financing/articles/where/where.htm

Researchers report that some patients who recovered from SARS have developed bone disease, possibly as a result of drugs used to fight the infection. {Link without Title}

is elected mayor of Toronto . {Link without Title}

In the United Kingdom , the Prince Of Wales returns from a foreign trip to confront enormous media interest in rumours of homosexual acts involving him and a former aide arising from allegations made by another former royal servant, George Smith . Charles is considering legal action, but his staff have ruled out the possibility of a Televised statement or interview. {Link without Title}

Survivors of the massacre of Srebrenica , the worst European atrocity since World War II, are to sue the United Nations and the Netherlands for almost USD $850 million for failing to protect the Muslim enclave. {Link without Title}

leader Adolf Hitler kneels in an empty room in a Munich art museum, Germany (where the Nazi past have made it taboo to display Hitler in any form except in documentary films). The exhibition is at the neo-classical museum, which the Nazi leader ordered built in 1937 . {Link without Title}