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Show Page Two All stories and photos from The Associated Press 5 Today ^ -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK Report: S. Korea to ban entry from North 47/34 Mostly Sunny Friday Mostly Sunny 54/38 Saturday Sunny 59/42 SEOUL, South Korea—South Korea said Thursday it will ban the entry of North Korean officials who fall under a U.N. travel restriction—Seoul's first concrete move to enforce sanctions imposed after the North's nuclear test. Unification Minister Lee Jong-seok also said Seoul will control transactions and remittances relating to inter-Korean trade and investment with the North Korean officials, Yonhap news agency reported. A U.N. committee on the sanctions, passed in response to North Korea's Oct. 9 nuclear test, has been working to outline how they will be implemented. Meanwhile, Japan's foreign ministry on Thursday denied a news report that its government is planning a meeting with the U.S. and South Korea as early as next month to solidify a common stance on the North Korean nuclear standoff. That report came amid growing concerns that South Korea was hesitant to join the U.S. and Japan in punishing North Korea. Sunday Sunny 59/40 Monday 46/37 Sunny u WWW.WEATHER.COM At the i Thursday, October 26, 2006 Today .-Outdoor Recreation Program used equipment sale: 8 a m to 6 p m @ '' •; Outdoor Recreation Program Building in .•.••8 '. Fort Douglas • Info session: Western University College of Osteopathic Medicine: U a.m. ;. to 1p.m. @ASB, Room 304 . • Info session: Ohio State University College of Medicine: 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. @, . JTB, Room 130 . ; • ; • Bennion Center Brown Bag: Campus and Commimity: The Dating Game: 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. @ Union -Panorama East • Biology Seminar Series: "Scaling from microbes to ecosystems: effects of microbial growth kinetics on soil respiration": 4 p.m. to 5 p.m.@ ASB, Room 210 • One-act plays: "The Dumb Waiter," "The Lover," "Sketches": 750 p.m. @ Studio 115 • Utah Philharmonia Annual Halloween Concert Music from Beyond the Grave: 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • Performing Dance Company Fall Concert 730 p.m. @ Marriott Center for 1 Friday Saturday [28 • Bennion Center October Saturday service project: 830 a.m. to Noon @ Meet at the Bennion Center •Run Like Health: Wellness 5K: 9 a m to 10 am. @ Marriott Library East Plaza • MEC Workshop: Eat, Drink, and Be Merry: Festivals of the Middle East: 9 a m to 3:30 p.m. @ Utah Museum of Fine Arts • ' '-':: • Cross Country: Mountain West Conference Championship: 10 a m @ Rose Park Golf Course • Football vs. UNLV: 2 p m @ Rice-Eccles Stadium • Officer's Hollow Halloween Carnival: 3 p.m. to6 p.m. @ Officer's Circle at Fort Douglas • One-act plays: T h e Dumb Waiter," "The Lover," "Sketches": 7:30 p.m. @ . '* .Studio 115 • . •: • Performing Dance Company Fall Concert; 730 p.m. % Marriott Center for y: Dance, Hayes Christensen Theater. BAGHDAD, Iraq—An angry Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki disavowed a joint U.S.-Iraqi raid in the capital's Sadr City slum Wednesday, and criticized the top U.S. military and diplomatic representatives in Iraq for saying his government needs to set a timetable to curb violence in the country. Al-Maliki spoke at a news conference a day after U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said Iraqi leaders had agreed to set deadlines by year's end for achieving specific political and security goals laid out by the United States, including reining in militia groups. "I affirm that this government represents the will of the people and no one has the right to impose a timetable on it," the prime minister said. The prime minister dismissed U.S. talk of timelines as driven by the coming midterm elections in the United States. "I am positive that this is not the official policy of the American government but rather a result of the ongoing election campaign. And that does not concern us much," he said. Al-Maliki complained that he was not consulted beforehand about the Sadr City offensive. The raid was conducted by Iraqi special forces backed by U.S. advis- N.J. court opens door to gay marriage m •Volleyball vs. BYU: 7 p.m. @ Crimson Court (HPER East Building) • One-act plays: 'The Dumb Waiter," "The Lover," "Sketches": 730 p.m. @ Studio 115 • Utah Philharmonia Annual Halloween Concert 7:30 p.m. @ Libby Gardner Concert Hall • Performing Dance Company Fall Concert 7:30 p.m. @ Marriott Center for Dance, Hayes Christensen Theater • Soccer vs. Wyoming: 7:30 p.m. @ Ute Defiant Iraqi PM disavows timetable TRENTON, N.J.— New Jersey's highest court opened the door Wednesday to making the state the second in the nation to allow gay. . marriage, ruling that lawmakers must offer same-sex couples either marriage or something like it, such as civil unions. In a ruling that fell short of what either side wanted or most feared, the state Supreme Court declared that gay couples are entitled to the same rights as heterosexual ones. The justices gave lawmakers 180 days to rewrite the laws. The ruling is similar to the 1999 high-court ruling in Vermont that led the state to create civil unions, which confer all of the rights and benefits available to married couples under state law. "Although we cannot find that a fundamental right to same-sex marriage exists in this state, the unequal dispensation of rights and benefits to committed same-sex partners can no longer be tolerated under our state Constitution," Justice Barry T. Albin wrote for the four-member majority. The court said the Legislature "must either amend the marriage statutes to include same-sex couples or. create a parallel statutory structure" that gives gays all the privileges and obligations married couples have. The vote was 4-3, with the three dissenting justices arguing that the majority did not go far enough. Iraql Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki speaks to the media at a press conference Wednesday in the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi forces on Wednesday raided Sadr City, the stronghold of the Shiite militia led by radical anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, but Nouri al-Maliki disavowed the operation, saying he had not been consulted and insisting "that it will not be repeated." ers and was aimed at capturing a top militia commander wanted for running a Shiite death squad. "We will ask for clarification to what has happened," al-Maliki said. "We will review this issue with the Multinational Forces so that it will not be repeated." Mouwafak al-Rubaie, his national security adviser, later told The As- sociated Press that al-Maliki's anger grew out of a misunderstanding that had since been cleared up with Gen. George Casey, the top U.S. commander in Iraq. While the U.S. military said the raid had been cleared in advance with al-Maliki's government, President Bush acknowledged that al-Maliki himself may not have been consulted. Bush unsatisfied with Iraq war progress WASHINGTON—Acknowledging painful losses in Iraq, President Bush said Wednesday he is not satisfied with the progress of the long and unpopular war, but he still insisted the United States was winning and should not think about withdrawing. Thirteen days before elections in which Republicans fear Iraq could cost them control of the House or Senate, Bush expressed unwavering confidence in Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the U.S. generals running the war and Iraq's prime minister, Nouri alMaliki, despite new strains between Bagh- orkSfane* Edited by Will Shortz Crossword ACROSS 1 P a d ol the head 5 Slip dad and Washington. "The ultimate accountability rests with me," Bush said of Iraq. "If peopie are unhappy about it, look right to the president." He spoke in the East Room at an hour-long news conference dominated by Iraq questions. 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