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World -- December 17, 2005
- Bush accepts senator's call to ban torture
- Bush to address US about Iraq
- Bush urges Arab leaders to support Iraq
- Bulgaria begins withdrawing troops from Iraq
- DPRK rejects anti-DPRK resolution on human rights
- DPRK denounces Japan on human rights resolution
- EU leaders meet to break budget deadlock
- European parliament takes another step toward probe of CIA secret jails
- Explosion hits smelter at Russian nuclear plant
- France sends former ETA leader Garcia Gaztelu to Spain for trial
- Japan's population likely to start decreasing from 2006
- New York transit workers, MTA continue to negotiate past midnight deadline
- Newest fighter jets join US combat fleet
- Russian nuclear plant blast kills 1, injures 2
- S.Korea's Hwang affirms he has technology to clone
- Sri Lanka awaits Tamil response to start talks
- US vows not to let Iran get nuclear weapons
- Upcoming nuclear talks focused on enrichment at home: Iran
- Venezuela will not talk to US about arms purchases -- vice president