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Monday, 20 May, 2002, 15:19 GMT 16:19 UK
The week in pictures: May 5 - 11
Chirac re-elected
Crowds celebrate the defeat of Le Pen
Jacques Chirac wins by a landslide over far-right leader Jean-Marie Le Pen
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FA Cup winners

Fulham's Marianne Pettersen, who won the Women's World Cup with Norway in 1995, said the win ranked among the highlights of her career
Fulham ladies celebrate FA Cup victory after Arsenal beat Chelsea to win the men's trophy and Man Utd to clinch the Premiershi
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Europe rocked by killing

Fortuyn has provoked public indignation by calling for the Netherlands' borders to be closed to immigrants and by describing Islam as a 'backward' religion
Days before the Dutch general election Pim Fortuyn is shot dead by a lone gunman
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Aung San Suu Kyi freed

From behind the walls of her lakeside villa in Rangoon, Aung San Suu Kyi has remained a powerful and enduring symbol of resistance to a vilified regime.
Burma's military government has released the pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, after 20 months under house arrest
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Baby snatch

An 18-year-old woman from Dudley, West Midlands, has been charged with kidnap and is due to appear before Halesowen magistrates on Wednesday.
Baby Elizabeth Rice, snatched from a maternity ward at Wordsley Hospital on Monday but rescued the next day
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Robotic police

Police turned the man around to inspect his body for remaining explosives.
An Israeli bomb disposal robot examines a suspected terrorist near Haifa
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Hamiltons' accuser charged

Nadine Milroy-Sloan was charged on Thursday with falsely alleging rape and serious sexual assault leading to the arrest of Barry Lehaney, Neil Hamilton and Christine Hamilton
Neil Hamilton and his wife Christine at Pleasureland Park are back in the news as Nadine Milroy-Sloan is charged
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Rail crash

The driver of the train Andy Gibson, from London, was uninjured and said he
A passenger train travelling from London to Norfolk crashed at Potters Bar railway station in Hertfordshire
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