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First anniversary of independence ballot
August 31, 2000
DILI, East Timor (AP) - In a day of tears and dancing, prayers
and forgiveness, war-weary East Timor marked the first anniversary
of the independence ballot that ended 24 years of bloody occupation
by Indonesia.
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Suu Kyi gets more world support
August 31, 2000
YANGON (AP) - The government on Wednesday accused
opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi of craving international
attention as her six-day-old roadside standoff with authorities
received more support around the world.
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Indian PM's doctor denies prostate cancer
August 31, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee is in
fine health and is not suffering from prostate cancer, his personal
doctor said Wednesday, reacting to media speculation days before the
Indian leader's visit to the United States.
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John Paul prays for end of "absurd" civil war
August 31, 2000
VATICAN CITY (AP) - Calling the 7-year civil war there
"absurd," Pope John Paul II implored combatants in Burundi's civil
war to commit genuinely to a lasting peace.
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Presidential impeachment vs. Lawyer's disbarment
August 31, 2000
LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas, USA--- President Bill Clinton said he
should not be disbarred over his testimony in the Paula Jones sexual
harassment case, telling a state judge that losing his law license
is too harsh a penalty.
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New meaning to the phrase 'Double-Agent'
August 31, 2000
BERLIN (AP) - It's not easy for a secret agent to make a living
in a post-Cold War world, so why not try recycling?
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Global warming threatens a third of world's habitats
August 31, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Global warming could fundamentally transform a
third of the world's plant and animal habitats by the end of this
century, threatening many species with extinction, an international
conservation organization warned Wednesday.
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Oscar-winning composer Jack Nitzsche dead at 63
August 31, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Jack Nitzsche, an Oscar-winning songwriter,
record producer, arranger and studio musician who played keyboard on
some of the Rolling Stones' hits and collaborated with many other
major pop figures of the '60s, has died at 63.
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Clinton meets Mubarak in quest for Mideast peace
August 30, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - Despite a "very active effort" by Mideast
players to move the Israeli-Palestinian track forward, there were no
signs of a breakthrough following a meeting Tuesday between U.S.
President Bill Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
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UnSolidarity on Solidarity’s Birthday
August 30, 2000
WARSAW (AP) - Solidarity celebrates the 20th anniversary
this week of the trade union that broke the back of Polish
communism. But these days, it is having a hard time living up to its
fabled name.
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The ever-growing hole
August 30, 2000
GENEVA (AP) - The hole in the ozone layer over the Antarctic
appears to be bigger than last year as early measurements show
significant ozone depletion, the United Nations weather agency said
Tuesday.
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Birth of Millie, short for Millennium
August 30, 2000
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - University of Tennessee researchers
have announced the birth of a cloned dairy cow using a quicker and
less complicated method than that used to clone Dolly the sheep.
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Osama Bin Laden preparing to leave Afghanistan
August 30, 2000
HIZARAK, Afghanistan (AP) - Suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden
sent 400 Arab fighters to the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya
with explosives and weapons to help the war against Russian forces,
a military instructor in his organization says.
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Cork versus plastic
August 30, 2000
AZARUJA, Portugal (AP) - The sun is just rising when the cork
cutters set out across the pale, dusty earth, their axes and clay
water jugs slung over their shoulders.
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Second-tallest tower of the world still ablaze
August 29, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Firefighters struggled for a second day Monday to
extinguish a fire that gutted Moscow's giant television tower, as
officials said there was little chance that people trapped in an
elevator could be saved.
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Philippine rebels release South African hostage
August 29, 2000
JOLO, Philippines (AP) - Muslim rebels freed a South African man Monday, leaving six foreigners and 12 Filipinos still in guerrilla
hands on a remote Philippine island.
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Clinton turns attention from economics to peace
August 29, 2000
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - After trying to convince Nigerians that their impoverished nation can embrace the computer economy, U.S. President Bill Clinton turned his attention to something that has proved almost as elusive: peace in Burundi.
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Army chief says no peace without cease-fire
August 29, 2000
BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) - Hutu rebels killed six people and
looted their homes in an attack that brought warnings and
condemnation from Burundi's top officials, hours before a peace
agreement was expected to be signed Monday.
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Besides Watergate: Nixon beat wife and took drugs
August 29, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - A new biography asserts that the late U.S.
President Richard Nixon over many years took a mood-altering drug
without a prescription and that he beat his wife at times of
personal crisis - a claim a Nixon intimate calls "inconceivable."
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Freed Philippine hostages depart for Libya
August 29, 2000
CEBU, Philippines (AP) - Six Western hostages freed from months
of captivity by Muslim rebels left the Philippines Monday aboard a
Libyan plane for Tripoli, with balloons, flowers and a cake to
celebrate their release.
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Dear Mr. Clinton,………………………
August 29, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - A Palestinian seeking a referendum among fellow
Arab Jerusalemites over whether their neighborhoods should come
under Palestinian control delivered a letter to the U.S. consulate
on Monday urging President Clinton to support his plan.
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Lizard fossil and Apollo 11 handle at auction
August 29, 2000
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A 200 million-year-old fossil of a winged lizard sold for dlrs 167,000 in the same controversial auction that put a silver handle from the American spacecraft Apollo 11 in the
hands of an unknown bidder for dlrs 34,500.
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Clinton wants democracy in oil-rich, poor Nigeria
August 28, 2000
ABUJA (AP) - Calling Nigeria "a pivot point on which
all Africa's future turns," U.S. President Bill Clinton appealed to
the leaders of this oil-rich nation to set aside political acrimony
so that their citizens can lift themselves from poverty and
isolation.
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Lebanese vote in elections marred by vote buying
August 28, 2000
BAABDAT, Lebanon (AP) - Thousands of troops deployed in central and northern Lebanon Sunday as citizens went to the polls to choose
parliamentary representatives in a two-stage election marred by charges of vote-buying and meddling by power-broker Syria and its
allies in the Beirut government.
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Mother of sailor denies being injected tranquilizers
August 28, 2000
MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - A woman whose son was killed when a Russian nuclear submarine sank has denied that she was forcibly sedated when she criticized a top official over the government's
bungled attempts to rescue the crew.
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King Jr.'s son tries to further father's `dream'
August 28, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Martin Luther King Jr.'s son stood Saturday on
the spot where the civil rights leader stirred America's conscience
stood 37 year ago and repeated his father's challenge to the
conscience of America: "I dare you to fulfill the dream."
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Pakistani politicians meet Commonwealth official
August 28, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's deposed politicians met Commonwealth Secretary-General Don McKinnon on Sunday in support of a quick return to democracy and an end to army rule of their homeland.
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Princess Di's sons move on; fans still respects
August 28, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Princess Diana's survivors have moved on. Three
years after her death, Prince Charles has brought Camilla Parker
Bowles out of the shadows, and Diana's sons are on the brink of
adulthood. They all remember her in private.
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Jodie’s life at the expense of Mary’s: Judgment?
August 28, 2000
LONDON (AP) - A judge has ruled that a two-week-old Siamese twin
should be separated from her sister, even though she will die in the
process - and despite the opposition of the babies' parents.
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Distinct expression of love and loyalty
August 28, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - Eighteen cats stood vigil for a week over the
body of their master and attacked policemen who came to remove his
corpse, police said Saturday.
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Sarajevo Film Festival ends
August 28, 2000
SARAJEVO (AP) - Jurors awarded prizes to
Danish, Polish and Bosnian directors at the sixth Sarajevo Film
Festival on the weekend, the Bosnian news agency Onasa reported
Sunday.
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Their mortal remains fly back
August 27, 2000
MANAMA, Bahrain (AP) - Investigators clicked pictures Saturday of
wreckage from Gulf Air Flight 072 protruding from shallow Gulf
waters, seeking clues to the plane's nosedive into the sea as
remains of 56 of the 143 victims were flown home to Egypt for
burial.
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Olusegun Obasanjo greets Bill Clinton
August 27, 2000
ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) - Whirling dancers in flowing, red and black
African dress greeted U.S. President Bill Clinton as he began a
three-day trip to Africa that the White House hopes will embrace
democracy in Nigeria and encourage peace elsewhere.
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The steadfast pro-democrat Aung San Suu Kyi
August 27, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Myanmar's military government on
Saturday urged pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi to return home
and end a three-day roadside standoff with security forces who have
blocked her car outside the capital, Yangon.
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Megawati unites with almost blind President!
August 27, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - In a sign of restored unity, Vice
President Megawati Sukarnoputri Saturday swore-in a new 26-member
Cabinet, which President Abdurrahman Wahid hopes will lift his
sagging political fortunes.
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Dissident editor and poet Bei Ling re-exiled
August 27, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese police released the U.S.-based editor of a
dissident literary magazine after 16 days in custody and sent him
back to the United States Saturday, removing an irritant in shaky
but improving China-U.S. ties.
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Bush pushes free trade and blasts Castro
August 27, 2000
DALLAS (AP) - George W. Bush has pledged to breathe new life into
stalled free-trade negotiations with Latin America if elected
president, and to retain all current sanctions on Fidel Castro's
Cuba.
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Amitabh Bachchan’s life threatened by mafia
August 27, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - One of India's most prominent actors was
provided government security after he received extortion threats
from a powerful underworld organization, a newspaper reported
Saturday.
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Residents flee Japanese islands amid fears
August 27, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Two hundred residents fled a small island south of
Tokyo on Saturday amid fears that a "fairly big" eruption could
occur from a re-awakened volcano, a local official said.
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The creaking intoxication of Pisces
August 27, 2000
GOLDEN, Colorado (AP) - An employee of Coors Brewing Co. flipped
the wrong switch and sent 77,500 gallons of beer into a creek,
killing thousands of fish and prompting health warnings.
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Myanmar police stop pro-democracy leader Suu Kyi from travel
August 26, 2000
YANGON (AP) - Pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi,
attempting to travel outside Yangon for the first time in two years,
was stopped by police on the capital's outskirts Thursday and had
not returned home by Friday morning, sources close to her said.
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Divers scour sea floor to recover more of Gulf Air aircraft wreckage
August 26, 2000
MANAMA (AP) - Dozens of U.S. and Bahraini divers scoured the sandy sea floor Friday in search for more bits of wing and fuselage from Gulf Air flight 072 as American and French aviation
experts began to gather here to take part in an investigation into the cause of the crash.
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Greek wildfires claim two more lives; emergency declared
August 26, 2000
ATHENS (AP) - Raging wildfires killed two more people Friday as officials declared a state of emergency in one region and civilian volunteers joined exhausted firefighting teams around the
country.
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Divers scour sea floor to recover more of Gulf Air aircraft wreckage
August 26, 2000
MANAMA (AP) - Somber words resonated through the Grand Mosque on Friday as Bahrain's Prime Minister stood side-by-side with 2,000 Muslims as funeral prayers were recited for the 143 victims of the Gulf Air crash.
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Rebel leader wants treason charges thrown out
August 26, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Treason charges against coup leader George
Speight should be dropped because of a deal with Fiji's military
that promised him immunity from prosecution, his lawyers said
Friday.
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Earthquake injures 406, leaves 169,000 homeless in China
August 26, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - An aftershock from a deadly earthquake in
southwest China has injured 406 people and left 169,000 homeless, an
official newspaper said Friday.
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Chinese courts convict 151 Falun Gong members
August 26, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - Chinese courts have convicted 151 leading members of the Falun Gong spiritual movement since it was banned last year, a Chinese religious official visiting the United States was quoted Friday as saying.
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Grand jury set up for Clinton-Lewinsky probe meets
August 26, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Independent Counsel Robert Ray came to the federal courthouse as a new grand jury investigating President Bill Clinton met for several hours.
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Kidnapped mountain climbers recount dramatic escape
August 26, 2000
DAVIS, California (AP) - American climbers held hostage for six days by Islamic militants in Kyrgyzstan say they escaped by pushing a guard off a cliff before making a harrowing 18-mile (29-kilometer) trek to freedom.
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Opposition launches assault north of war-ruined capital
August 26, 2000
KABUL (AP) - A blistering artillery duel raged north of the beleaguered capital Friday as opposition troops launched a two-pronged offensive against defending Taliban soldiers, opposition spokesmen said.
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Death toll rises to 50 in Sudan river boat accident
August 26, 2000
KHARTOUM (AP) - Fifty people, many of them school
children, are now known to have drowned when a boat taking them
across the River Nile capsized in central Sudan, a senior provincial
official said on Friday.
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Prime Minister says radiation normal around sunken submarine
August 26, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - The level of radiation in the area where a nuclear submarine exploded and sank this month is normal and there is no cause for alarm, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov said
Friday, according to a report.
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Gulf-Air crash is a deja vu for Egyptians
August 25, 2000
MANAMA (AP) - Sobbing family members, their eyes bloodshot from a night of waiting, collapsed in anguish Thursday as names of their loved ones were listed as victims of the Gulf Air
crash that killed all 143 aboard.
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Wreathes of flowers on the waves
August 25, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Grieving relatives of the 118 sailors who died in a nuclear submarine headed out into the cold gray Barents Sea on Thursday to lay flowers on the waves above the sunken warship, Russian television said.
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If peace talks fail; emphasize English, math
August 25, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - In a clear warning to the Palestinians, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Thursday he will not make peace at any price and that if negotiations fail, he will ask the hawkish opposition party Likud to join his opposition.
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Geriatric President’s “crony cabinet”
August 25, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - Speculation of a rift between President Abdurrahman Wahid and his popular deputy grew Thursday as the beleaguered leader was criticized for filling a new Cabinet with his own supporters.
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Russia opens day of mourning for submarine-dead
August 24, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russians lowered flags to half-staff Wednesday and lit candles in churches in memory of 118 sailors killed in a nuclear submarine as the vast nation marked an official day of mourning.
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Johnny "Mad Dog" Adair back in prison
August 24, 2000
BELFAST (AP) - Determined to suppress rising
violence among Northern Ireland's pro-British gangs, Britain on
Tuesday ordered the most notorious terrorist within their warring
ranks to be put back behind bars.
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Mori puts himself in Clinton's shoes
August 24, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori is staying in the same suite at the Maurya Sheraton Hotel that housed President Bill Clinton in March, but it has been redecorated with
bonsai trees and Japanese art, a news agency reported Wednesday.
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"Egypt plays key role in Jerusalem's compromise"
August 24, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Egypt is key to crafting a compromise on Jerusalem and is not expected to support hard-line resolutions on the future of the disputed city at next week's Islamic conference, the chief Israeli negotiator said Wednesday.
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No special investigation of Gore fund-raising
August 24, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - U.S.Attorney General Janet Reno announced Wednesday she has decided not to seek appointment of a special counsel to investigate Vice President Al Gore's 1996 campaign
fund-raising activities.
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Stroke damaged Suharto's brain
August 24, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - Indonesia pursued key reforms Wednesday when a judge ordered ex-dictator Suharto to face trial for corruption next week despite claims that strokes have damaged his
brain.
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Sri Lankan air force bombs rebel bases
August 24, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Sri Lankan MiG-27 fighter jets bombed rebel bases in the northern Jaffna Peninsula and inflicted heavy damage, a government spokesman said Wednesday.
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Cancer survivors' inspiration in Mount Fuji climb
August 24, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Strength. Encouragement. Hope. Hundreds of cancer survivors and their families sought inspiration this week at the heights of Japan's most famous landmark: the summit of Mount Fuji.
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Russian leaders blame West for submarine disaster
August 23, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Trying to divert public anger over bungled efforts
to save a nuclear submarine, the Russian military has been trying to
pin the blame on the United States and its other old Cold War
enemies.
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King Abdullah visits Palestinians and Israel
August 23, 2000
TEL AVIV (AP) - Jordan's King Abdullah II held
back-to-back talks with the Israeli and Palestinian leaders Tuesday
in an effort to safeguard his country's interests in a future
Mideast peace agreement.
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Japanese PM Mori visits India's IT hub
August 23, 2000
BANGALORE (AP) - Japanese Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori
visited India's information technology hub Tuesday and proposed an
ambitious initiative for greater collaborations between the two
nations, a domestic news agency reported.
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Bush and Gore on the soldier's life
August 23, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Disagreeing over a missile defense shield and
nuclear arms, presidential candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore are
tangling over sky-high strategic questions in their military
policies. But neither has forgotten about the soldier on the ground.
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Gigli, soprano who sang with tenor father, dies
August 23, 2000
RECANATI, Italy (AP) - Rina Gigli, a soprano who sang
professionally with her tenor father, Beniamino Gigli, died Tuesday
of cancer in her hometown here in central Italy. She was 84.
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Revisiting the Jurassic age
August 23, 2000
ROME (AP) - The discovery of as many as 60 dinosaurs footprints
in the "spur" of the Italian peninsula has added new evidence to
the theory that Italy was once part of a land mass attached to the
African continent, geologists said Tuesday.
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Egyptian nonsmokers’ paradise
August 23, 2000
CAIRO (AP)- Wanted: Nonsmokers only.
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Not Rescue operation any more: Its Salvage now
August 22, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Rescue teams abandoned efforts Monday to find
survivors in a sunken Russian submarine after determining that all
of the 118 crew members had perished in the flooded vessel,
officials said.
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As Clinton goes golfing, first lady campaigns
August 22, 2000
LAKE PLACID, New York (AP) - President Bill Clinton closed a
short family vacation with a brisk round of golf, while his wife, a
Senate candidate, cleared out early to campaign.
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Apartheid made Tshwane Pretoria and Egoli J’burg
August 22, 2000
JOHANNESBURG (AP) - Apartheid is gone, but South African maps are still filled with tributes to white men once hailed as heroes by the country's minority rulers.
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Exit polls show pro-Fox candidate ahead
August 22, 2000
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico (AP) - A candidate allied to Mexico's president-elect defeated Mexico's long-governing Institutional
Revolutionary Party Sunday, sending supporters into giddy celebrations in the streets.
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Gore, Bush tied in new poll of likely voters
August 22, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Gore and George W. Bush campaigned in the
battleground states of the American Midwest while a new poll of
likely voters suggested the U.S. presidential race is very close.
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