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Baghdad - An Iraqi militant group said Thursday that it had obtained a large amount of explosives missing from a munitions depot near Baghdad. The group warned it would use them against foreign troops threatening Iraqi cities, according to a video obtained by Associated Press Television News. The video's authenticity couldn't be confirmed. Mohamed ElBaradei, chief of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency reported on Monday that 350 tonnes of explosives had gone missing from an Al-Qaqaa storehouse south of Baghdad. Ramallah, West Bank - Yasser Arafat's doctors intend to send the ailing Palestinian leader to hospital in Paris, after blood tests showed he has a low platelet count, aides said. The decision to send the 75-year-old Arafat to Paris came shortly after his wife Suha arrived in the West Bank. She has been living in France with the couple's nine-year-old daughter. Ortona, Italy - A small town in Italy turned out in force Wednesday to honour its heroes: the Canadian veterans of the Second World War who liberated Ortona in one of the fiercest battles Canada fought on Italian soil. The battle in December of 1943, known as Canada's Stalingrad, cost many Canadian soldiers their lives. Governor General Adrienne Clarkson joined some of the men who survived the Italian campaign in a ceremony of remembrance Wednesday.
