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Jerusalem - The head of the UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, is going to Israel on Tuesday to try to persuade the Jewish state to be more open about its nuclear program. While no breakthroughs are expected, one Western diplomat close to the agency said Mohamed El-Baradei will promote the concept of a nuclear weapons-free zone in the Middle East. Under its policy of "strategic ambiguity," Israel neither admits nor denies having nuclear weapons. Some analysts believe Israel has up to 200 warheads, making it the world's fifth-biggest nuclear power. Their estimates are based on the amount of plutonium Israeli reactors are believed to have produced. New York - A 20-ton slab of granite was laid Sunday morning in New York City as the cornerstone for the skyscraper that will replace the twin World Trade Center towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks. New York Governor George Pataki said July 4 Independence Day was chosen to begin construction on the new building ? the Freedom Tower ? to show that the extremists didn't destroy America's faith in freedom. At 541 metres, it would be the tallest building in the world. Tehran - Iran would submit charges to a Baghdad court trying deposed Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein for war crimes and genocide, the Islamic republic's foreign ministry said. Saddam will be tried for war crimes and genocide by an Iraqi court.
