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World -- October 16, 2005
- Canadian PM presses Bush on softwood dispute
- Iraqi voters kick off referendum on draft constitution
- Japan's parliament approves postal privatization bills
- Japan high court sentences 3 men to death for 1994 murders
- Japan to hand over persons to US 9/11 attacks-linked fraud
- Roundup: Aids to earthquake victims in India-controlled Kashmir
- Rice in Moscow to meet Russian leaders on Iran
- Roundup: Japan enacts post privatization law
- Sunni-dominated province possibly to veto Iraqi charter
- Senior US official says Serbia-Montenegro faces challenges on war crimes, Kosovo
- US oil production in September hits lowest since 1943
- UN to consider increasing strength of peacekeeping force in Cote d'Ivoire
- Voters flock to polling stations in Fallujah