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• V CORPS UNIT BRINGS COMPUTER AGE TO TWO BAGHDAD SCHOOLS V Corps Release 29 Nov 2003-- Two schools in the Al Adhamiya neighborhood here now have new computers and Internet capabilities thanks to some help from soldiers of V Corps' 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment, 1st Armored Division.
• Task Force Commander Says More Mobile Force Will Have 'Right Blend' of Units AFPS 29 Nov 2003 -- The coalition forces commander in Iraq said today that a changing U.S. military unit composition will yield a more mobile force in Iraq.
• IRAQ / ATTACK VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- Seven Spanish intelligence agents have been killed and one wounded in Iraq in an attack on their convoy on a road south of Baghdad.
• IRAQ/SANCHEZ VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- The U-S general in charge of coalition forces in Iraq is appealing to the Iraqi people to help troops find Saddam Hussein. After months of intensive search, the general acknowledges finding the deposed dictator has been more difficult than anticipated.

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• ISRAEL/SECURITY BARRIER VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- Israel has responded defiantly to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan's condemnation of a security barrier it is building in the West Bank. Israel's Foreign Ministry said Saturday the project is vital to the security of the Jewish state and that it will not be halted by international criticism.
• MIDEAST/PEACE TALKS VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qureia, holds talks in Jordan today (Saturday) with U-S Middle East envoy William Burns. The meeting was to set the stage for talks Sunday between Mr. Burns and Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon on ways to promote peace in the region.

• SRI LANKA/POLITICS VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- In Sri Lanka, the government has rejected part of a proposal presented by the country's president to resolve political differences. As Anjana Pasricha reports, the continuing political deadlock is hampering efforts to resume peace negotiations with Tamil Tiger rebels.
• NORTHERN IRELAND/ELECTION VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- With election results officially confirmed in Northern Ireland, the difficult job of trying to re-establish power-sharing in the province in place of direct rule from London begins. But as Tom Rivers reports from London, the results indicate that the tough task ahead has now gotten even tougher.

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• GEORGIA/BLAST VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- An early morning explosion in the capital of Georgia broke the calm that has prevailed during the peaceful revolution that toppled former President Eduard Shevardnadze. A bomb went off outside the office of a political party opposed to the country's new leaders.
• NIGERIA/HOSTAGES VOA 29 Nov 2003 -- Seven foreign oil workers have been taken hostage at gunpoint in Nigeria' oil-rich delta region.