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Show BULLETIN u At the AH stories and photos from The Associated Press TRIPOLI, Lebanon (AP)—Lebanese army tanks pounded a shadowy group suspected of ties to al-Qaida on Sunday, targeting its hideouts inside a Palestinian refugee camp after hours of clashes killed at least 22 soldiers and 17 militants. The violence between the army and the Fatah Islam group erupted both in the northern port city of Tripoli and the adjacent Nahr elBared refugee camp. It added further instability to a country already mired in its worst political crisis between the Western-backed government and Hezbollah-led opposition since the end of the 1975-90 Lebanese civil war. It was the most serious fight the army had engaged in Lebanon in more than a decade and the worst violence to hit Tripoli in two decades. The clashes between army troops surrounding the camp and Fatah Islam fighters began after a gunbattle raged in a neighborhood in Tripoli, a predominantly Sunni city known to have Islamic fundamentalists, witnesses said. Fighting spread after police raided suspected Fatah Islam hideouts in several buildings in Tripoli, searching for men wanted in a recent bank robbery. A gunbattle ensued and troops were called in to help the police. Militants then burst out of the refugee camp, seizing Lebanese army positions, capturing two armored vehicles and ambushing 23 Wednesday • Last day to drop term-length and first-session classes: Summer 2007 academic deadline • Family Medicine Grand Rounds: 8 a.m.to 9 a.m.@ Moreau Medical Bldg. Auditorium •"Les Mlsfi" rabies": 7:30 p.m. @ Pioneer Memorial Theatre Thursday [II • Internal Medicine Grand Rounds: . 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. @ Eccles Human Genetics Auditorium •The Nora Eccles Harrison Distinguished Lecture Series: 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. @ Richard A. Harrison Conference Room, Bldg. 500, Room 152 • " U s Miserables": 7:30 p.m.@ Pioneer Memorial Theatre -DAY WEATHER OUTLOOK Tuesday ems A Lebeanese firefighter tries to extinguish burning cars after an explosion hit the eastern area of Achrafieh in Beirut, Lebanon on Sunday. An explosion across the street from a busy shopping mall killed a 63-year-old woman and injured 12 other people Sunday, sending black smoke billowing In the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital, police and witnesses said. troops. They killed two soldiers on roads leading to the city. Smoke billowed from the camp as a steady barrage of artillery and heavy machine gunfire from army positions pounded militant positions inside. Security forces were able to quell the resistance in Tripoli after sundown, and troops seized all positions around the refugee camp late Sunday, the army said. In Beirut late Sunday, an explosion across the street from a busy shopping mall killed a 63-year-old Progress in Iranian nuclear program 68/52 Mostly Sunny Thursday 72/si Partly Cloudy J WWW.WEATHER.COM Corrections 1 and Clarifications —!Hie policy of The Daily Utah Chronicle is to correct any error made as soon as possible. If you find something you would like clarified or find unfair, please contact the editor at 801-581-8317. TEHRAN, Iran (AP)— The head of Iran's nuclear effort said Sunday that the Islamic republic's nuclear program was moving ahead as scheduled and reiterated that Tehran would not suspend uranium enrichment, the country's official news agency IRNA reported. The comments by Reza Aqazadeh, vice president and head of Iran's Atom- ic Energy Organization, came just days before the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency is expected to submit its latest report on Iran's nuclear program to the U.N. Security Council early this week. "I confirm that our technical efforts are going ahead appropriately," IRNA quoted Aqazadeh as saying. 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In the enrichment process, uranium gas is in1 jected into cascades of thousands of centrifuges, which spin and purify it. If enriched to a low level, the result is fuel for a nuclear reactor. To a much higher level it can build the material for a nuclear warhead. Calm returns to southern Indian sometimes 6 It may be raised in an technology and the installation and operation of 50,000 centrifuges are our aim." Iran announced in April that it had begun to operate 3,000 centrifuges —o times the previously announced number—but the international community responded to the claim with skepticism. Tehran has said its ultimate goal is to have 50,000 centrifuges running at its underground facility in Natanz. Later in April, The Associated Press obtained a confidential IAEA docu- MANILA, Philippines (AP)—Two candidates broke a rare tie in last week's elections by tossing a coin, officials said Sunday. After a count of last Monday's ballots, local elections officials discovered that Bryan Byrd Bellang and Benjamin Ngeteg had tied for the final of eight seats on the council in Bontoc town in Mountain province, elections supervisor Mary Umaming said. "I asked them if they wanted to break the tie by tossing a coin or drawing lots, and somebody in the crowd wondered if I was cracking a joke," Umaming told The Associated Press by telephone. "I said those options were in the rules, and they agreed to flip a coin," she said. Bellang, who chose heads, won the toss, which was held TAiesday in the local town hall. The candidates then sealed the agreement with a handshake, and the crowd erupted with applause, Umaming said. Provincial elections supervisor Dennis Dimalnat hailed the peaceful resolution of the tie in Bontoc as a refreshing example. "I hope others would see the beauty of this kind of peaceful resolution," he told the AP. The congressional and local elections last Monday were marred by widespread violence. Police initially reported that more than 130 people had been killed since January in election-related violence, but later lowered that toll to 41, saying they were investigating whether the other deaths were linked to the polls. Bontoc, a resort town known for its mountainside rice terraces, is about 175 miles north of Manila. b 3 bridge suits, 1 Former steel gianl 52 woman and injured 12 other people in the Christian sector of the Lebanese capital, police said. A wall in the woman's nearby apartment collapsed on her from the impact of the blast, said the Lebanese Broadcasting Corp., a Christian TV station. The bomb left a crater about 4 feet deep and 9 feet wide, and police said the explosives were estimated to weigh 22 pounds. The blast— heard across the city—gutted cars, set vehicles ablaze and shattered store and apartment windows. Mostly Sunny Wednesday 15 Coin toss breaks tie in local Philippine election 39 killed in eruption of violence in Lebanon • School of Medicine Seminar Series: 4 p.rruo 5 p.m. @ Ecdes Institute of Human Genetics Auditorium - UMNH Nature of Things Lecture: Call of the Ivory-Billed Woodpecker 630 p.m.@ Salt Lake City Main Library Auditorium : ^ ^, ' - " U s Miserable*": 7:30 p.m.@ Pioneer Memorial Theatre 3 Monday, May 21,2007 HYDERABAD, India (AP)—Calm returned to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad on Sunday, with shops reopening and people flooding into the streets as fears of religious violence following the bombing of a 17th century mosque abated. The bomb, hidden under a bench in the courtyard of the historic Mecca mosque, exploded during prayers Friday, killing 11 people. Another five were killed when clashes erupted between security officials and Muslim protesters after the blast and police opened fire on stone-throwing crowds. Investigations continued Sunday, with a bomb disposal unit from the federal National Security Guard searching through the debris of the attack. They provided no details about the investigation. Across the city shops reopened and life returned to normal, with fewer armed police guarding the streets. "The city is peaceful and calm and the situation is nor- mal," city police chief Balwinder Singh told reporters. On Saturday, hundreds of police in not gear were deployed throughout the mostly deserted streets, with most shops closed for a daylong strike called by Muslim groups. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the bombing but Indian media continued to report that intelligence agencies were looking at a possible link to Islamic militant groups based in neighboring Pakistan, India's longtime rival. The news reports offered no reasons why investigators would suspect Muslim groups in an attack on a mosque, but the militants are routinely blamed even when Muslims are targeted. Such accusations stoke resentment among Muslims, who account for about 130 million of India's 1.1 billion people, about 80 percent of whom are Hindu. Hyderabad, a city of 7 million people, about 40 per- Advertising. 801 581.7041 EDITOR IN CHIEF Matthew Piper MANAGING EDITOR Becca Krahenbuhl DIRECTOR OF PRESENTATION Eric Geerllngs PRODUaiON MANAGER ArlanaTorrey ONLINE EDITOR A n d y Thompson NEWS EDITOR Dustin Gardiner ASST. NEWS EDITOR Ana Breton cent of whom are Muslim, has long been plagued by communal tensions—and occasional inter-religious bloodletting. Five people were killed and 27 wounded in HinduMuslim clashes in 2003. The fighting began when Muslims marked the anniversary of the destruction of the 16th century Babri Mosque by Hindu extremists in northern India in 1992. Relations between Hindus and Muslims have been largely peaceful since the bloody partition of the subcontinent into India and Muslim Pakistan at independence from Britain in 1947. 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