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Jerusalem - The United States is determined to stop Iran from getting atomic weapons, and has signalled Washington will not rule out an attack if peaceful diplomacy failed to achieve this. President George W. Bush's top official on nuclear on-proliferation, Undersecretary of State John Bolton, was asked during a visit to Israel if the U.S. could consider such an attack. "President Bush is determined to try and find a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the problem of Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons," he said. "But we are determined that they are not going to achieve a nuclear weapons capability." Washington - U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said that the United States did not know what caused a mysterious huge blast in North Korea last week, but it was not a nuclear test. "We've seen reports of this explosion, but based on the information we have, it was not any kind of nuclear event," Powell said yesterday. Bagram, Afghanistan - The trail has gone cold in the hunt for suspected Sept. 11 mastermind Osama bin Laden three years after the attacks, but the al-Qaida chief and his No. 2 are still orchestrating strikes such as the recent suicide car bombing of a U.S. security firm in Kabul, a top American commander said Saturday. George Town, Cayman Islands - Hurricane Ivan closed in on the Cayman Islands with winds near 155 mph on Sunday, uprooting trees, bursting the banks of canals and flooding homes and an airport runway on the British territory.
