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Wellington, New Zealand - Tens of thousands of newborn penguins face starvation because a massive iceberg is plugging Antarctica's McMurdo Sound, New Zealand scientists warned Tuesday. The huge chunk of ice, measuring 3,000 square kilometres, or half the size of Prince Edward Island, is lodged in the sound's entrance. That phenomenon endangers the lives of Adele penguin chicks whose parents depend on open water to find food, said Lou Sanson of the government scientific agency Antarctica New Zealand. Jerusalem - The armed uprising against Israel was an error and should end, interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas said in a rare public condemnation of the four-year-old intefadeh that has killed hundreds of Israelis. The remarks, made in a newspaper interview published Tuesday, signalled Abbas's determination to change the direction of the Palestinian leadership after Yasser Arafat's death. Abbas, the current PLO leader and the front-runner to replace Arafat in a January election for the Palestinian Authority presidency, urged his people to resist the Israeli occupancy without resorting to violence. Baghdad - Iraq will start war-crimes trials against its former leaders next week, the country's interim leader said Tuesday. Interim prime minister Ayad Allawi said several top lieutenants of the ousted Iraqi leader would face the courts.12/15/2004
