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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49097)	9/17/2005 3:53:46 AM
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Blair ‘shocked’ over BBC Katrina coverage By Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn in New York Published: September 17 2005 00:38 \| Last updated: September 17 2005 00:38 Tony Blair was shocked by the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina's devastation of New Orleans, describing it as “full of hatred of America”, Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive of News Corporation, revealed on Friday night. Mr Murdoch, a long-time critic of the BBC who controls rival Sky News, said the prime minister had recounted his feelings in a private conversation earlier this week in New York.

To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49097)	9/18/2005 3:31:53 AM
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This Day in History The invasion of Manchuria by the Japanese imperial army and subsequent refugee problem, September … Mukden Incident, the Japanese army in Manchuria used the pretext of an explosion along its railway to occupy Mukden and to increase its control, within three months, to all of Manchuria. More events on this day 2001: For the second straight day, Typhoon Nari pounded Taiwan with record rainfalls, causing massive flooding and killing 79 people. 1965: Japanese astronomers Ikeya Kaoru and Seki Tsutomu discovered Comet Ikeya-Seki. 1948: A local communist commander seized power in Madiun, Indonesia, as part of a rebellion effort against the Sukarno government in an incident known as the Madiun Affair. 1932: By royal decree the dual kingdom of the Hejaz and Najd, along with its dependencies, was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 1898: Horatio Herbert Kitchener, 1st Earl Kitchener.British forces under Sir Horatio Herbert Kitchener confronted French forces commanded by Jean-Baptiste Marchand at the disputed fort of Fashoda in the Egyptian Sudan. 1895: Booker T. Washington.Booker T. Washington declared the Atlanta Compromise—a classic statement on race relations—in a speech at the Atlanta (Georgia) Exposition. 1885: Bulgarian nationalists in Eastern Rumelia mounted a coup and declared the province's unification with Bulgaria, leading to the Serbo-Bulgarian War. 1819: Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, engraving.French physicist Jean-Bernard-Léon Foucault, who introduced and helped develop a technique of measuring with extreme accuracy the absolute velocity of light and provided experimental proof that the Earth rotates on its axis, was born.