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 * U.S.-led occupation of Iraq: Witnesses and hospital officials say that 22 Iraqis, among them children, women and youth, were killed in a U.S. air strike in a residential neighborhood in Fallujah.
 * Leaders of 25 countries agree on a draft European Constitution for the European Union at the Intergovernmental Conference in Brussels. Croatia is accepted as a candidate for joining the EU.
 * Kidnapped hostage Paul Johnson is beheaded by militants linked to Al Qaeda.
 * Vladimir Putin says that Russia had warned the United States several times before the 2003 invasion of Iraq that Saddam Hussein was planning terrorist attacks against the U.S.
 * Colombia's left-wing FARC rebels claim responsibility for the massacre of 34 coca farmers found dead earlier this week.