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Vatican City - One of Europe's top cardinals said Thursday that Pope John Paul was nearing "the last days and months of his life," the first ranking prelate to say the 83-year-old pontiff is dying. With John Paul visibly weaker in recent weeks, concern over his health has been growing. Austrian Christoph Cardinal Schoenborn was the second leading prelate this week to express alarm over the Pope's health. "The entire world is experiencing a pope who is sick, who is disabled and who is dying - I don't know how near death he is - who is approaching the last days and months of his life," Schoenborn, who is the archbishop of Vienna, told Austrian state broadcaster ORF. San Diego - Gubernatorial front-runner Arnold Schwarzenegger acknowledged that he has "behaved badly" to women and offered an apology Thursday. Schwarzenegger's remarks came after a Los Angeles Times story published Thursday in which six women accused him of sexually harassing and groping them. Seoul - North Korea announced Thursday it is using plutonium extracted from spent nuclear fuel rods to make atomic weapons, a move likely to escalate tensions on the Korean peninsula. The claim came amid increasing concern by U.S. intelligence analysts that North Korea might have three, four or even six nuclear weapons instead of the one or two the CIA now estimates.
