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Atlanta - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s widow called Monday for an end to acrimony in politics as Americans paused to commemorate the slain civil rights leader. Coretta Scott King talked last year about avoiding war in Iraq, and her plea for non-violence returned this year. "Peaceful ends can only be reached through peaceful means," she said in her annual King Day address. Berlin - Europe's Mars Express orbiter has sent back its first high-resolution pictures of the planet's surface, capturing in detail part of a huge Martian canyon, the European Space Agency said Monday. Mars Express went into orbit around the Red Planet on Christmas Day on what is the first mission to Mars by the European Space Agency. About two weeks later, NASA landed its Spirit rover on the Martian surface. Jerusalem - Addressing two of Israel's thorniest issues, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told legislators Monday that peace with Syria would require a full withdrawal from the Golan Heights and he ordered a review of the contentious West Bank separation barrier. In the past, right-wing Israeli governments insisted a peace deal could be reached without a withdrawal from the strategic plateau captured in the 1967 Mideast War. Also Monday, the founder of Hamas announced a change in strategy, saying the Islamic militant group would increasingly recruit female suicide bombers
