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Washington - Widespread atrocities taking place in the Darfur region of Sudan qualify as a genocide, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday. Critics say the Sudanese government has been supporting the Janjaweed, Arab militias accused of attacking Darfur's black residents and carrying out a brutal campaign to drive out the local population. Tens of thousands of Darfur residents have died and more than 1.2 million have been displaced from their homes, according to the report. Washington - New allegations are being raised that President George W. Bush used family ties to shirk his military duties, as the Vietnam War continues to play a prominent role in the U.S. presidential election. In a network television interview aired on CBS's 60 Minutes II, a Texan named Ben Barnes said Bush's family used its influence to keep the future president from ever having to go to Vietnam. Moscow - Russian security officials identified 10 of the Beslan school hostage-takers Thursday, confirming that six of them came from the breakaway republic of Chechnya. Four others were from Ingushetia, the republic bordering North Ossetia, where last week's siege that ended in the deaths of at least 326 children and adults took place "We will take all measures to liquidate terrorist bases in any region of the world," said Col.-Gen. Yuri Baluyevsky, chief of the Russian General Staff.
