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SAUDI ARABIA
Al Qaeda ideologue killed in clash
RIYADH -- A firebrand cleric who issued religious decrees for an al Qaeda-linked terrorist group was killed yesterday during a car chase and shootout with police that also killed a policeman.
Abdullah Muhammad Rashid al-Roshoud, thought to be the chief ideologue for al Qaeda in the region, died in the clash in the al-Quds neighborhood in eastern Riyadh, a security official said.
A former high school professor of Islamic studies, al-Roshoud was known for writing statements on Islamic Internet sites and issuing fatwas, or religious edicts, justifying terrorist attacks against the Saudi government and foreign influences in the kingdom.
CAMBODIA
Parties sign accord to share power
PHNOM PENH -- Cambodia's two main political parties signed an accord yesterday to share power, ending 11 months of political paralysis that had been delaying the country's World Trade Organization bid and efforts to try Khmer Rouge suspects.
The agreement keeps Prime Minister Hun Sen at the helm of this impoverished Southeast Asian nation, after his reconciliation with royalist leader Prince Norodom Ranariddh.
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