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Iraq - Danish forces reported finding possible chemical weapons in southern Iraq yesterday. Denmark said its troops had found 36 mortar shells buried in southern Iraq that initial tests showed could contain blister gas. The shells had been buried for at least 10 years and the site may contain another 100. The Danish Army Operational Command said on its website that further tests were needed, with final results likely in about two days. Blister gas, an illegal weapon which Saddam said he had destroyed, was used extensively against the Iranians during the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq war. Icelandic bomb experts working with the Danes said the 120mm shells were concealed in road construction some 75km south of Amara. Jerusalem - Palestinian leaders yesterdat reasserted the right to unilaterally declare an independent state in the absence of a peace deal with Israel. It was a response to Israel's own threats of one-sided action. The go-it-alone declarations reflect both sides' frustrations with more than three years of fighting and stalled peace talks. Beijing - Investigators scoured a southern China apartment block yesterday, looking for clues to the possible cause of the infection of its resident, the season's only confirmed case of SARS. A new potential case emerged in the same region. The new suspected infection involved a 35-year-old man in Guangdong province, said Dr. Thomas Tsang, a consultant attached to the Department of Health in Hong Kong.
