News review 2005 part 6 of 6

Including: Riots across France; Jordan hotel bombings; River pollution in China; Bird flu in Eastern Europe; Iranian aircraft Tehran building; UN Climate conference; and more. PAKISTANI RAPE VICTIM MUKHTAR MAI GIVEN BRAVERY AWARD Glamour magazine honoured rape victim Mukhtar Mai with a bravery award for her courage in bringing her violators to justice in conservative Pakistan. Mukhtar was raped in 2002 by a group of men on the orders of the tribal council (Jirga) as a family punishment after her younger brother was accused of sexual relations with a girl from an influential tribe. An appeal is pending in Paksitan's Supreme Court against a high court order to free 13 men of involvement in the crime. 'SCOOTER' LIBBY PLEADS NOT GUILTY TO CHARGES IN CIA LEAK PROBE President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, Lewis Libby, plead not guilty on November 3 to charges in the CIA leak probe, in a case that could put a spotlight on how the Bush administration made its case for the Iraq war. Libby resigned in October after he was indicted on five counts of obstructing justice, perjury and lying in the two-year investigation into the leak of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame's identity. RIOTING AND CIVIL UNREST SPREAD FROM IMPOVERISHED SUBURBS OF PARIS ACROSS FRANCE, GOVERNMENT IMPOSES STATE OF EMERGENCY Sixteen nights of rioting and civil unrest across France were sparked after two youths of North African origin were electrocuted on October 27 in an electricity substation in what locals say was an attempt to escape the police. Authorities deny that they were being chased by police at the time. More than 5,000 cars were set ablaze and at least 1,500 people detained, many of them of Arab and African origin. One person died. Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy, whose tough line on the unrest had been widely criticised, said "We can see that the French integration model is not working and needs to be seriously revisited." JORDAN HOTEL BOMBINGS KILL OVER 50 PEOPLE Three ...