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Kimmel's Getting Divorced Jun 18, 12:37 PM EST (Associated Press) -- The wife of late-night talk show host Jimmy Kimmel has filed for divorce after more than 13 years of marriage. Gina Kimmel cited irreconcilable differences in court documents filed Monday in Superior Court. The couple will share joint custody of their two children, an 11-year-old daughter and a 9-year-old son. The pair separated in April. An after-hours message left Tuesday for Gina Kimmel's attorney wasn't returned. Kimmel, 35, is the host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live" and was co-host of "The Man Show" on Comedy Central. He was recently...

Blix damns Iraq: too little, too lateInterim report to criticise Saddam's delays in disarming By Andrew Buncombe, Paul Waugh and Kim Sengupta 28 February 2003 Saddam Hussein's prospects of staving off a war that will crush his regime all but evaporated last night when UN weapons inspectors said repeated demands for Iraq to disarm had shown only "very limited" results. While the UN Security Council met in a private session to discuss the Anglo-American draft resolution that would pave the way for military action, a copy of the latest report by the chief weapons inspector, obtained by the BBC, said...

Blair tells Assad: It's not too late for Saddam By Anton La Guardia and Toby Helm (Filed: 16/12/2002) Tony Blair will today ask Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to pass an eleventh-hour message to Saddam Hussein telling him that Iraq can still avoid a war if it gives up its weapons of mass destruction. President Bashar al-Assad As Britain steps up preparations to join the American military build-up in the Gulf, Whitehall sources said the Prime Minister had not yet given up hope that war can be averted. He will make the appeal in what promises to be a tense meeting...

<p>FRANKLIN, N.H. - The bride wore white: a traditional long dress, with a veil, pearls, and bouquet. The groom wore his best brown suit. They were married in June, in a home ceremony. You'll excuse the couple if they jumped the gun on the kiss sealing the deal. The bride is 82, and it was her first trip down the aisle. The groom, a 73-year-old widower, was first married more than 50 years ago.</p>

Arafat approves Taba plan too late Ewen MacAskill, diplomatic editor Saturday June 22, 2002 The Guardian The Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat, yesterday belatedly accepted a Middle East peace plan put forward 18 months ago by the then US president, Bill Clinton. But the Israeli government said the offer, which was discussed by Israeli and Palestinian negotiators at Taba in Egypt in January last year, was no longer on the table. The Israelis had claimed the Taba package was generous and that Mr Arafat had been foolish not to grab it. Mr Arafat had repeatedly insisted that it was far from...

May 07, 2002 Marines sweep in, a month too late From Anthony Loyd in the Mezai Mountains “A MONTH too late” is the mantra among British Marines in Afghanistan as they search fruitlessly for Taleban and al-Qaeda fighters through some of the most inhospitable terrain in the world. Far from being a military triumph, it is now clear that Operation Anaconda in March allowed significant numbers of guerrillas to flee across the Pakistani border. Just as December’s fighting in the Tora Bora Mountains failed to kill or capture the radical leadership because there was no flanking move along the Pakistan...