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Indian official fears quake death toll could hit 100,000

January 31, 2001 

  

ANJAR-- (AP) - The chances of pulling further survivors from beneath the wreckage of India's killer earthquake dwindled to near zero on Tuesday, even after a teen-age boy was rescued.The country's defense minister estimated 100,000 people may have died in the disaster.

 

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ADB to provide financial help to quake-ravaged India

January 31, 2001 

  

MANILA-- (AP) - The Asian Development Bank announced Tuesday it will provide immediate financial assistance to help India rebuild from a devastating earthquake that killed at least 20,000 people.

 

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After Arafat's conciliatory remarks a possible meeting with Barak

January 31, 2001 

  

JERUSALEM-- (AP) - A day after Yasser Arafat reaffirmed his commitment to Mideast peace, the Israeli media reported Tuesday that the Palestinian leader and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak could hold talks later this week.

 

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Bush's environmental Cabinet choices headed for passage

January 31, 2001 

  

WASHINGTON-- (AP) - President George W. Bush's environmental Cabinet choices, Gale Norton for interior secretary and Christie Whitman as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, appear to have enough bipartisan support to assure Senate confirmation.

 

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Kuwait bans import of bovine animals from EU

January 31, 2001 

  

KUWAIT-- (AP) - Kuwait has banned the import of bovine animals from EU countries as a precaution against mad cow disease, the Public Authority for Agricultural Affairs and Fisheries said Tuesday.

 

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Israel sending field hospital to aid India earthquake casualties

January 30, 2001 

  

JERUSALEM-- (AP) - Israel is sending a field hospital to India to treat people injured in the devastating earthquake that struck the northwest part of the country, officials said Monday.

 

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Baby born at third West Bank roadblock & stopped at fourth

January 30, 2001 

  

JERUSALEM-- (AP) - A Palestinian baby girl was born last week at an Israeli army roadblock and stopped at another one 10 minutes later while still linked to her mother's umbilical cord, an Israeli newspaper reported Monday.

 

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15 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya in one day

January 30, 2001 

  

NAZRAN, Russia-- (AP) - Fifteen Russian soldiers were killed in Chechnya in a 24-hour period, including 12 who died after the vehicles they were riding in struck land mines, an official said Monday.

 

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Bhuj: Another tragedy center besides Ahmedabad

January 29, 2001 

  

BHUJ-- (Bangla2000/AP) - Searchers only miles (kilometers) from the epicenter of a devastating quake combed the ruins of buildings Sunday, hoping to find survivors of a disaster that claimed more than 6,000 lives - and perhaps many times that.

 

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After 30 hours of digging, a cheer from earthquake rescuers

January 29, 2001 

  

BHUJ-- (AP) - Police and air force troopers dug with shovels, jacks and their bare hands for 30 hours. Then a cheer went up. Drawn by an infant's cries, the exhausted rescuers saw a woman and a baby, alive in a pocket of safety amid a mound of dust, concrete and twisted metal.

 

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Violent protests grip Karachi after gunmen kill 5 Sunni Muslims

January 29, 2001 

  

KARACHI-- (AP) - The mournful wail of the evening call to prayer sounded Sunday as mourners buried five Sunni Muslims killed in a violent ambush by masked men that prompted the worst round of religious violence in more than one year.

 

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Reformist lawmaker & editor released after detention in Iran

January 29, 2001 

  

TEHRAN-- (AP) - Hard-liners stepped up their campaign against Iran's reformist camp Sunday, arresting a reformist lawmaker as he left his home in downtown Tehran, a member of parliament told The Associated Press.

 

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Rival gangs clash at shopping mall on edge of Paris

January 29, 2001 

  

PARIS-- (AP) - At least 200 youths from two rival gangs armed with knives clashed over the weekend at a suburban shopping center, a brawl that left eight gang members injured, one seriously, local officials said Sunday.

 

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Heavy gunfire reported on Zanzibar Island

January 29, 2001 

  

ZANZIBAR-- (AP) - Heavy gunfire was reported in Zanzibar on Sunday, where opposition leaders claimed that 22 people were killed the day before when police fired on protesters calling for new elections.

 

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Children massacred in deadliest attack so far

January 29, 2001 

  

ALGIERS-- (AP) - An armed group broke into two homes in an isolated village and massacred two dozen sleeping people - including 16 children, security sources said Sunday. It was the deadliest attack so far this year in an Islamic insurgency that has left tens of thousands dead.

 

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Indian Earthquake’s death toll will be a staggering 13,000!!

January 28, 2001 

  

AHMEDABAD-- (Bangla2000/AP) - Rescue workers grew desperate Saturday, climbing atop mountains of debris and screaming into the crevices, hoping for faint responses from thousands trapped by western India's devastating quake.

 

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Germany sends rescue team to Indian quake region

January 28, 2001 

  

BERLIN-- (AP) - The German government said Saturday it is sending a 27-member team to western India to help in the search for survivors from the powerful earthquake.

 

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Parents' hope fades for students buried in school

January 28, 2001 

  

AHMEDABAD-- (Bangla2000/AP) - Although it was a national holiday, 37 teen-agers trooped into the Swami Narayan School for a physics class. Their teacher had threatened punishment if they skipped the extra drill before exams.

 

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Quake causes minimal damage to India's oil, gas & steel industry

January 28, 2001 

  

NEW DELHI-- (AP) - The earthquake that killed thousands of people in India's western Gujarat did little damage to the state's extensive petroleum, natural gas and steel operations, although it reportedly damaged an oil terminal at the main port.

 

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Britain holds first Holocaust day: Europe remembers Nazi victims

January 28, 2001 

  

LONDON-- (AP) - Britain observed its first-ever national Holocaust Memorial Day Saturday with ceremonies across the country and a London service that also honors victims of other 20th-century genocides.

 

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Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo seeks armed forces’ support

January 28, 2001 

  

MANILA-- (Bangla2000/AP) - Plagued by coup rumors since she took office a week ago, President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo appealed Saturday for the armed forces to back her new government in rebuilding the nation.

 

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Israeli-Palestinian talks will end next week: Barak

January 28, 2001 

  

EILAT-- (AP) - Israeli-Palestinian peace talks will conclude Sunday, most likely with a statement summing up progress and a pledge to resume negotiations after Israel's Feb. 6 election, the leader of the Palestinian team said.

 

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Egyptian author gets prison sentence for blaspheming Islam

January 28, 2001 

  

CAIRO-- (AP) - A state security court sentenced an Egyptian author Saturday to three years in prison at hard labor for writings that offended Islam, court officials said.

 

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Malaysia's first premier rejected plan to attack Indonesia

January 28, 2001 

  

KUALA LUMPUR-- (AP) - A soon-to-be published book claims that Malaysia's first prime minister rejected a British plan to declare war on Indonesia in the early 1960s, the national news agency reported Saturday.

 

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Cargo spacecraft docks with Mir to prepare station's fiery end

January 28, 2001 

  

KOROLYOV-- (AP) - Russia's deteriorating Mir space station on Saturday received its probable last visitor, a cargo ship laden with fuel to push the 15-year-old space station into a fiery descent into the Pacific Ocean.

 

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Chinese police arrest suspect in 58 Dover deaths

January 28, 2001 

  

BEIJING-- (AP) - Chinese police have arrested the alleged head of a human smuggling ring on suspicion he arranged the passage of 58 Chinese found dead last June in the British port of Dover, the government's Xinhua News Agency said Saturday.

 

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India earthquake kills over 2,000

January 27, 2001 

  

AHMEDABAD, India (AP) — The most powerful earthquake to strike India in a half century rocked the subcontinent Friday, killing more than 2,000 people, injuring 3,000 and leaving desperate survivors clawing through the rubble of collapsed buildings in search of loved ones.

 

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Congo's Kabila promises peace

January 27, 2001 

  

KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Congo's new president, sworn in Friday 10 days after the assassination of his father, vowed to renew this war-weary nation, promising free elections, a liberalized economy and the deployment of U.N. forces to oversee an often-ignored peace agreement.

 

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Mideast talks called 'promising'

January 27, 2001 

  

TABA, Egypt (AP) — Israeli and Palestinian teams failed to make a breakthrough in peace talks Friday, but said negotiations looked ``promising'' as the sides undertook one of most difficult issues — the fate of millions of Palestinian refugees.

 

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Pinochet enters hospital in Chile

January 27, 2001 

  

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Gen. Augusto Pinochet was rushed to a hospital Friday, hours after a retired army general blamed the former dictator for dozens of political killings in 1973.

 

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Taliban rules: ‘Titanic’ haircut is against Islam

January 27, 2001 

  

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghanistan's Taliban rulers have jailed 22 barbers for giving men Leonardo DiCaprio-style haircuts deemed offensive to Islam because the long bangs interfere with the ability to bow and say prayers.

 

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Hinduja surprised and sad by Mandelson’s resignation

January 26, 2001 

  

NEW DELHI-- (Bangla2000/AP) - The wealthy British Indian industrialist whose citizenship application led to the resignation of Northern Ireland secretary Peter Mandelson said Thursday he was surprised and sad by the events.

 

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Dalai Lama participates in Hindu festival at Ganges River

January 26, 2001 

  

ALLAHABAD-- (AP) - The Dalai Lama tossed marigold petals at children who greeted him with garlands Thursday at the world's largest religious gathering, the Kumbh festival, but said it was too cold to join millions of Hindus bathing in the Ganges River.

 

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Israelis & Palestinians close on borders of Palestinian state

January 26, 2001 

  

TABA-- (AP) - Israel and the Palestinians have made good progress in drawing the borders of a future Palestinian state, negotiators said Thursday, as the two sides resumed contacts in this Egyptian resort following a two-day timeout called by Israel despite a tight deadline.

 

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Three more arrested for luring minors into sex

January 26, 2001 

  

BANGKOK-- (AP) - Police arrested on Thursday two teen-age girls on charges of luring minors to perform sex for money with a prominent senator in a case that has created a national scandal.

 

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Barak weighs resumption of peace talks after 2 Israelis killed

January 25, 2001 

  

JERUSALEM-- (AP) - Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak faced a tough decision Wednesday: whether to resume peace talks with the Palestinians despite the killings of two Tel Aviv restauranteurs in the West Bank.

 

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Kofi Annan intends to visit North Korea this year

January 25, 2001 

  

TOKYO-- (AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said on Wednesday that he will try to visit North Korea this year.

 

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Iraq: U.N. technical team to visit next month

January 25, 2001 

  

BAGHDAD-- (AP) - Iraq has indicated it will work with U.N. experts on improving its ailing oil industry, using money earned from the oil-for-food program.

 

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Nine injured in explosion at Laos border checkpoint

January 25, 2001 

  

BANGKOK-- (AP) - A suspected bomb exploded Wednesday at a border and immigration checkpoint in Laos, just across the Mekong river from Thailand, injuring at least nine Thai tourists, police said.

 

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Europe-US open conference to combat organized crime

January 25, 2001 

  

GHENT-- (AP) - European and American officials called Wednesday for more trans-Atlantic cooperation to combat organized crime, which is going global to sidestep national controls.

 

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Duma limits criminal immunity for former presidents

January 25, 2001 

  

MOSCOW-- (AP) - The lower house of Russia's parliament on Wednesday substantially weakened a Kremlin bill that would grant former presidents sweeping immunity from prosecution, in a move that could bring legal problems for Boris Yeltsin, whose close associates are linked to corruption charges.

 

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Senators introduce Bush tax cut

January 24, 2001 

  

WASHINGTON-- (AP) - Two senators introduced President Bush's package of more than dlrs 1 trillion in tax cuts, but a House leader cautioned against prospects of quick passage, predicting an August date for clearing Congress.

 

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Palestinian negotiators harshly attack US role in peace talks

January 24, 2001 

  

JERUSALEM-- (AP) - U.S. mediation between Israelis and Palestinians was marked by "mistakes and failures" over the past seven years and was marred by a clear pro-Israel bias, the Palestinian negotiating team said in an unprecedented attack on former U.S. President Bill Clinton's Mideast policy.

 

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Faith, madness, magic during most sacred bathing day in Hindu festival

January 24, 2001 

  

ALLAHABAD-- (AP) - Millions of Hindu pilgrims are scrambling toward the Ganges to fulfill lifelong ambitions of bathing in what they consider the most sacred river on earth at the most auspicious moment.

 

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Five woodcutters killed in Assam as gunmen strike in India

January 24, 2001 

  

GAUHATI-- (AP) - Twenty masked gunmen burst into a house where migrant timber cutters were sleeping in northeastern Assam, killing five in indiscriminate automatic weapons fire and wounding two, police said Tuesday.

 

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India extends unilateral Kashmir cease-fire by one month

January 24, 2001 

  

NEW DELHI-- (AP) - The Indian government extended its unilateral cease-fire against Islamic militants in Kashmir on Tuesday, saying its troops will refrain from operations against the separatist guerrillas for another month.

 

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Search efforts continue on landslide-stricken Indonesian island

January 24, 2001 

  

JAKARTA-- (AP) - Rescuers dug away at tons of mud and rubble in Indonesia's North Sulawesi province Tuesday trying to find survivors of five devastating landslides that have killed at least 34 people, officials said.

 

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Election Commission calls revote in 62 districts in Thailand

January 24, 2001 

  

BANGKOK-- (AP) - Thailand's Election Commission on Tuesday ordered revotes in 62 districts where candidates were suspected of cheating during the Jan. 6 general elections.

 

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