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Palestinians enforce weapons ban
By wire services
Published September 30, 2005
JERUSALEM - Palestinian authorities began enforcing a ban on public displays of weapons Thursday, arresting three people and confiscating the guns of off-duty police officers in a key step toward imposing order in the chaotic Gaza Strip.
The crackdown came as 82 Palestinian towns and villages in the West Bank held municipal elections. The powerful Hamas movement was expected to make strong gains, despite a continuing Israeli offensive against Islamic militants.
Pressing ahead with its military campaign, Israeli soldiers killed three Palestinian gunmen during raids in the West Bank. Israel launched the wave of airstrikes and arrest raids last weekend in response to militants' attacks.
Hamas and other militant groups have pledged to halt the rocket fire. But militants fired an antitank missile and two rocket-propelled grenades Thursday into southern Israel, causing no injuries, the army said.
Cuba criticizes ruling on U.S.-held terror suspect
HAVANA - Cuba's state-run media on Thursday continued its attack on Monday's U.S. court ruling that bans a foe of Fidel Castro from being extradited to Venezuela for trial in an airliner bombing that killed 73 people in 1976.
An immigration judge in El Paso, Texas, declared that 77-year-old Luis Posada Carriles could not be deported to Venezuela because he could face torture there.
Posada denies that he masterminded the bombing. He is also accused of illegally entering the United States from Mexico in March and is jailed in El Paso.
City from Homer's poems may have been found
LONDON - The long-lost city of Ithaca, home of the legendary hero Odysseus in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey, is on the island of Cephalonia off the western shore of Greece, three British researchers announced Thursday.
The original contours of Ithaca have been distorted over the millenniums by earthquakes that raised land levels, converting it into a peninsula called Paliki, said researchers Robert Bittlestone, chairman of the management consultancy Metaprxis Ltd.; historian James Diggle of the University of Cambridge; and geologist John Underhill of Edinburgh University. They hope to dig for traces of Odysseus's castle and city.
Some critics have said that Homer didn't get Ithaca's geography right because he never visited it. Others said the story was fictional.
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