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/ 17 September 2002
April 11 2002. About 10.20am. A coach full of German tourists is bumping down the road that leads to the ancient El Ghriba synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. Around the corner, in a narrow, cobbled lane that runs alongside, an old Iveco tanker truck is waiting, driver inside.
The raging river Vltava came close to submerging Prague’s historic city centre and two of the city’s districts as the rising torrent put hours of work and thousands of sandbags to the test. To the horror of art lovers, the art nouveau national theatre began to fill with water.
The leaders of Germany and France this week highlighted the gap separating Britain and the United States from some of their closest allies on policy towards Iraq, saying they could not support an attack without a United Nations mandate.