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Hours earlier, the Palestinian Authority announced presidential and parliamentary elections will be held in mid-January 2003, and outlined plans to reform Palestinian financial and security institutions.The developments come two days after the address in which Mr. Bush said he ;d support the goal of a Palestinian state only after reforms and the installation of new Palestinian leadership not compromised by terror.So far, the only other Palestinian politician to announce a planned presidential bid is 53-year-old political scientist Abdel Sattar Qassem, who told the Associated Press Wednesday that he expects to defeat Arafat.I ;ll focus on the internal issues, the corruption and mismanagement and looting public money, cronyism, he said. Qassem does not recognize Israel as a state and supports bombing and shooting attacks against Israeli civilians.Qassem echoed the reaction of many other Arab leaders to President Bush call for new leadership. Bush doesn ;t have the right to tell our people what to do, he said.Meanwhile, The New York Times reported Wednesday that Mr. Bush call for new Palestinian leadership came a
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A Connecticut judge denied a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against the manufacturer and sellers of the Bushmaster AR-15 rifle used in the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings that left 26 people dead in Newtown, Connecticut.Gun companies had argued that a 2005 federal law had granted them broad immunity from civil lawsuits over the misuse of their products. But Superior Court Judge Barbara Bellis ruled Thursday that the Protection of Lawful Com
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