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Washington, January 30 Mr Jindal cleared the speculation about whether he would run for the US Congress or get another Bush cabinet appointment by making his intentions clear in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, his home state. “I have thought long and hard with my wife about the opportunities that are in front of us, and where we feel I can continue to make a positive impact for our state. That is why today I am officially announcing that I am a candidate for Congress in First District,” Mr Jindal said. Mr Jindal, surrounded by his wife and two-year-old daughter, made his announcement in front of Grace King High School, his wife’s alma mater. He touched on some of the issues that would define his campaign platform but said he would be releasing a detailed plan over the coming months. “The same issues that I discussed last year — more jobs, higher paying jobs, more businesses and industry and more economic opportunity in Louisiana — are still prevalent today. As Congressman, I will continue to work tirelessly on those issues so our children can grow up and find good paying jobs here, instead of moving away from their families.” Mr Jindal also touched on other issues such as the war on terrorism, healthcare, coastal erosion and flooding, and government spending. In his campaign for Governor, Mr Jindal had hesitated to pronounce on foreign policy issues. Representative Vitter, who is vacating his House seat to make a run for the US Senate, said: “I can think of no one better than Bobby Jindal to continue the work I have started in Congress on behalf of the people of the First congressional District.” Also announcing their support of Mr Jindal in his candidacy were local Louisiana political notables.
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Greg Dyke refutes Hutton’s findings
London, January 30 “I could not quite work out what they had apologised for,” said Mr Dyke, after the BBC earlier bowed to pressure from Prime Minister Tony Blair and unconditionally apologised for alleging in a May radio broadcast that Mr Blair’s office had “sexed up” intelligence on the threat from Iraq. “I don’t necessarily accept the findings of Lord Hutton,” Mr Dyke said yesterday, referring to the senior judge who in a long-awaited report on Wednesday faulted the BBC for its broadcast. Mr Dyke did not elaborate but, amid accusations from some commentators that Lord Hutton’s report was a “whitewash” of the government, suggested he might shortly voice criticism of the judge’s conclusions. Mr Dyke, Director-General and Editor-in-Chief, became the second top BBC official to fall on his sword, following Mr Gavyn Davies who stepped down as Chairman in the wake of Lord Hutton’s report, which plunged the BBC into the worst crisis in its history. While harshly criticising the BBC for its editorial practices, Lord Hutton cleared Mr Blair’s government of serious wrongdoing in events leading up to the suicide last July of David Kelly, the British arms expert at the centre of the BBC’s controversial report.
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Evidence tainted in Kanishka bombing: defence
Vancouver, January 30 An account of Bagri’s late night visit to a woman friend on the evening before the disaster is at the centre of the prosecution’s case against him. Canadian intelligence and the police have told the court that the woman, who cannot be identified under court order, told them about the visit in 1990, 1992 and 1997. But she testified she was not certain when Bagri visited and did not recall her conversation with him. Prosecutor Richard Cairns said the woman was feigning memory loss of an event that no one could ever forget. Defence lawyer Michael Code told the British Columbia Supreme Court yesterday that the woman might not remember the incident because it was not as momentous as the prosecution maintained. The late night visit might have occurred two weeks before the disaster, he said. In the fourth week of an unusual court procedure, Justice Ian Bruce Josephson has been asked to disregard the woman’s sworn testimony in court and accept as true her statements to the intelligence and the police. Former intelligence and police officers have testified that she told them that Bagri asked to borrow her car on the night before the disaster to take bags to the airport.
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UK to fund AIDS control in India London, January 30 “We are funding the National AIDS Control Organisation of India to the tune of 123 million pounds and are working with it closely on the design of a more effective strategy,” Gareth Thomas, MP and Minister in the Department for International Development, said during a debate on ‘AIDS in India’ in the house last evening. According to current estimates, about four million people are affected by AIDS in India, the second largest number of HIV infections in respect of any country in the world”, Thomas told James Purnell, MP, member of the Labour Friends of India. Thomas, former Chairman of the Labour Friends of India, said there had been a seven-fold increase since 1997 in the funds that Britain was spending to tackle the spread of HIV/AIDS.
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Death for Doomsday cult member
Tokyo, January 30 Masami Tsuchiya, 39, was the 11th member of the Aum Shinrikyo cult to be sentenced to death for the attack. Prosecutors said Tsuchiya’s responsibility in the killings was second only to that of the group’s guru, Shoko Asahara. It wasn’t immediately known if Tsuchiya’s lawyers would appeal to a higher court.
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