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Eli Lilly plans new manufacturing plant\nINDIANAPOLIS -- Eli Lilly and Co. plans to build a major drug manufacturing plant in northern Virginia, where the company will make a synthetic version of insulin and other drugs. Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner said Lilly will invest up to $1 billion in the plant, The Washington Post reported in a story Thursday. The plant is to be built in a Prince William County-owned business park in suburban Washington and will initially include a 600,000-square-foot building employing as many as 700 people.\nBush hopeful of mideast progress\nWASHINGTON -- President Bush said today that important progress is being made in ending the violent standoff in the Middle East and declared that Israel must negotiate an end to its occupation of Palestinian areas in the West Bank. Bush, speaking after meetings with European leaders, also had a message for the Palestinians, telling them that the nation Americans and Europeans want to help them build must denounce terrorism. Bush said he expects more progress when he meets next week with Mideast leaders.\nCatholic priest arrested in San Diego\nBOSTON -- A Roman Catholic priest who allegedly advocated sex between men and boys was arrested this morning in San Diego on three counts of rape of a child, officials said. A San Diego police spokesman confirmed the arrest of the Rev. Paul Shanley, one of the priests at the center of the Boston church abuse scandal. The arrest was announced by Emily LaGrassa, a spokeswoman for the Middlesex District Attorney's Office. \nFormer aide to Milosevic surrenders\nTHE HAGUE, Netherlands -- A top aide to former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic surrendered Thursday to the U.N. war crimes tribunal in the Netherlands to face charges of participating in atrocities against Kosovo Albanians. Nikola Sainovic, a former deputy prime minister, was accompanied on a flight from the Yugoslav capital, Belgrade, by another Serb, former prison warden Momcilo Gruban, who was wanted for atrocities in Bosnia.\nMyanmar leader could be released\nYANGON, Myanmar -- Opposition and government negotiators are close to a deal that could release pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi from house arrest, an opposition leader said Thursday. Tin Oo, the vice chairman of Suu Kyi's party, told reporters that he met her on Wednesday at her lakeside residence where she has been held for the last 19 months.\nGerman industrial workers start strikes\nFRANKFURT, Germany -- Germany's biggest manufacturing union approved the nation's first industrial strike in seven years Thursday, saying walkouts will start Monday in a southwestern state that is home to automaker DaimlerChrysler.