The weekslong sit-in which activists have dubbed "Occupy Parliament" had been aimed at preventing Mr. Ganzouri and his fellow ministers from entering their offices across the street.

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The demonstration was a response to the weekslong protest in Crawford by Cindy Sheehan, the Gold Star mother who is seeking a meeting with President Bush.

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SEOUL North Korea said it would be willing to hold disarmament talks with the U.S. but not over its nuclear-weapons program, its latest gambit in a weekslong run of threatening behavior that has in recent days been supplemented by extreme conditions for potential dialogue.

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