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16 OCTOBER 2005 (SUNDAY)

Louis Farrakhan , leader of the Nation Of Islam , addresses the Millions More event in Washington DC and condemns George W. Bush for the Federal Government 's response to Hurricane Katrina . (BBC)

monk and five other people are killed and a Buddhist temple is set on fire. (Reuters)

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict :

--- A leader of Islamic Jihad is killed in a shoot-out following an Israel i raid into the West Bank town of Jenin . (BBC)

--- The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claim responsibility for a West Bank shooting attack that kills three Israel i Settlers at a Hitchhiking post. Another Israeli is seriously wounded in a second shooting attack. (Haaretz)

The reentry module of the Chinese Manned Spacecraft '' Shenzhou 6 '' lands safely in Inner Mongolia , China . (People's Daily) .

Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi visits the Yasukuni Shrine which honors Japan's war dead including 14 Class A war criminals of World War II . This is Koizumi's fifth visit to Yasukuni since taking office in 2001. (CNN)

More than 4 million people vote in Italy for the primaries of the center left to elect the person that should represent the main antagonist to the current Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi . (La Repubblica)