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Vienna - Libya has agreed to open its nuclear activities to pervasive inspection by the UN atomic agency as early as next week, a key step toward honouring a promise to scrap its nuclear weapons program, the agency's chief said Monday. Libya has admitted to nuclear fuel projects, including the possession of centrifuges and centrifuge parts used in uranium enrichment - a nuclear effort more advanced than previously thought. It also agreed to tell the IAEA about current nuclear programs and to adhere to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. Madrid - The world's richest lottery sprinkled the equivalent of $3 billion Cdn in Christmas cheer throughout Spain on Monday. Spaniards spent the morning glued to television sets and radios for the latest edition of a sweepstakes that goes back to 1812. Known as El Gordo, or the Fat One, the lottery uses a complex system of shared numbers that shuns winner-takes-all jackpots and instead spreads wealth among millions of people holding numbers that go from 00001 to 66,000. Three-quarters of the country's 40 million people take part in El Gordo, officials say. Valledupar, Colombia - Colombian rebels freed four Israelis and a Briton on Monday to a humanitarian commission, which whisked them away on two helicopters after 101 days in captivity.
