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Eduardo Rodriguez, the former Supreme Court chief justice who was sworn in Thursday as interim president, met with neighborhood, union, mining and farm leaders in a church auditorium in El Alto, a sprawling, impoverished city adjacent to La Paz, in an effort to quell the country's most intense civil disturbances.
The protest leaders said their truce was only temporary after three weeks of roadblocks and factory occupations forced out Carlos Mesa, the country's second president to resign in two years.
In Caracas, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez blamed President Bush for Bolivia's crisis and said Bush's "poisoned medicine" of free-market policies was being rejected by Latin America.
AFRICA
· NAIROBI -- Somalia's new government swore in several ministers and held its last parliamentary session in Kenya before beginning to return home after a nine-month delay over security concerns.
The government of President Abdullahi Yusuf fears that without an international peacekeeping force, militias will prevent ministers and their teams from carrying out their work.
Yusuf and nearly 140 lawmakers who support him attended the parliamentary session, in which a new information minister and several junior ministers were sworn in.
ASIA
· BEIJING -- Rescuers have found the bodies of 28 more people, most of them children, after a flash flood triggered by the worst rains in 200 years hit a packed Chinese school two days ago, killing at least 92 people.
· MANILA -- Fourteen communist guerrillas were killed when Philippine security forces raided a suspected rebel hideout in a farming village on Luzon Island, an army spokesman said.
EUROPE
· VIENNA -- The governing board of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency is expected to formally approve Mohamed ElBaradei's third term as the agency's chief, after the United States ended its efforts to oust him, diplomats said.
But the Bush administration has not given up its battle to stop Iran's nuclear program, which it contends is secretly working to develop nuclear weapons. Iran insists its atomic programs are limited to the peaceful generation of electricity.
· LONDON -- Peter Hain, Britain's secretary of state for Northern Ireland, said he expected the Irish Republican Army to issue a statement soon that would commit the guerrilla group to "peaceful means."
Officials in London are trying to get the British-ruled province's feuding Catholics and Protestants back to the negotiating table to try to restore self-government.
-- From News Services
