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Even Cuba agrees with USA 

June 30, 2000       

  

WASHINGTON (AP) - It was a rare example of the United States and Cuba on the same side of an issue, both countries agreeing that Elian Gonzalez belonged back in Cuba.

    

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War criminal Milosevic must be ousted

June 30, 2000   

         

BERLIN  (AP)- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday renewed a so-far unsuccessful campaign to depose Yugoslavia President Slobodan Milosevic.

 

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Disgraced Kohl faces hearing in financing probe

June 30, 2000   

       

BERLIN (AP) - After months of buildup, disgraced former Chancellor Helmut Kohl finally takes the stand in hearings examining whether cash donations influenced decisions during his 16 years in power.

     

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OIC deadlocked on electing secretary general

June 30, 2000   

        

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Islamic countries on Thursday appeared deadlocked on the issue of electing a new secretary general for the Organization of the Islamic Conference, delegates and diplomats said.

 

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Indian foreign minister's first visit to Israel

June 30, 2000   

      

NEW DELHI, India (AP) - India's improving relations with Israel are highlighted by the arrival Friday of Jaswant Singh, the first Indian foreign minister to visit since diplomatic ties were established in 1992.

 

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Attack on FAO building in Baghdad

June 29, 2000   

   

CAIRO (AP) - An attack on the Food and Agriculture Organization building in Iraq on Wednesday has left two people dead, according to a staffer at the U.N. agency.  

 

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Military plane crashes off western Japan

June 29, 2000   

   

TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese military plane carrying five Air Self-Defense Force soldiers crashed into the sea Wednesday while on a test flight off Japan's western coast, officials said.  

 

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‘Anti-India elements’ attacked Christians

June 29, 2000   

   

NEW DELHI (AP) - The national government summoned state officials and law enforcement officers Wednesday to crack down on violence against Christians.  

 

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$16 billion vanishes into the thin air

June 29, 2000   

   

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (AP) - News of an errant prince squandering his country's financial reserves would seem likely to shake the foundations of any kingdom.

 

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Minister fired after sex scandal 

June 29, 2000   

   

WELLINGTON (AP) - Prime Minister Helen Clark on Wednesday fired a Cabinet minister who refused resign over allegations of sexual misbehavior and that he threatened to shoot his nephew.

 

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Queen Mother approaching 100

June 29, 2000   

   

LONDON (AP) - London's business district celebrated Queen Mother Elizabeth's approaching 100th birthday Tuesday with pealing bells and a sumptuous meal of lobster, lamb and strawberry meringue.

 

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The woeful saga of a sex slave

June 29, 2000   

   

FREETOWN (AP) - Musu Kamara laughs and smiles as she weaves a straw basket in a classroom full of chattering girls.Dressed in a navy blue uniform, she seems like any other teen-ager -apart from the letters "RUF" carved into her chest.

 

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Perelman’s 4th, Barkin’s 2nd

June 29, 2000   

  

NEW YORK (AP) - It's the fourth time for him, the second for her: Billionaire cosmetics executive Ron Perelman and actress Ellen Barkin are getting married.

 

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THIS DAY, THAT YEAR

June 29, 2000   

   

UNDATED (AP) - Today is Tuesday, July 4, the 186th day of 2000. There are 180 days left in the year.

 

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Robert Mugabe further rules over

June 28, 2000   

  

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party won a narrow majority Tuesday in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections despite historic gains by the opposition and strong signs of  discontent with its 20 years of rule.

 

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Lazio literally with a ‘stiff upper lip’ 

June 28, 2000   

   

ALBANY, New York (AP) - Rep. Rick Lazio is having teething problems as he tries to mount a statewide Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton with less than six months until the election.

 

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Bush’s speech bitten by the Hispanic bug

June 28, 2000   

   

WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush told Hispanic leaders he wants to split the Immigration and Naturalization Service into two parts: a welcoming one for legitimate immigrants and a tough one for border enforcement.  

 

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Rebels get 24 hours ultimatum to surrender

June 28, 2000   

   

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - A former officer of Britain's elite Special Air Service, who is one of the leaders of the gunmen holding Fiji's government hostage, said Tuesday the captives will die if the army tries to rescue them.

 

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Palestine needs Islamic countries’ solidarity  

June 28, 2000   

   

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Muslim countries were urged Tuesday to show solidarity with the Palestinians during a crucial stage of negotiations with Israel in their quest for an independent homeland.

 

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Inspiration of James Bond’s ‘Moneypenny’ dies  

June 28, 2000   

   

LONDON (AP) - Vera Atkins, the World War II British spymaster who inspired the efficient and unflappable Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series, has died. She was 92.

 

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THIS DAY, THAT YEAR

June 28, 2000   

   

UNDATED, AP - Today is Monday, July 3, the 185th day of 2000. There are 181 days left in the year.

 

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Women get the upper hand in Japanese election 

June 27, 2000   

  

TOKYO (AP) - The victorious candidates leading the traditional "banzai" cheer following Japan's national election included more women than at any time in the last 44 years. But after the applause

died down, some seemed pessimistic about the obstacles they still face in the country's male-dominated political system.

 

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Is Maluku becoming another kosovo ?

June 27, 2000   

   

JAKARTA, JUNE 26 (AP) - Violence gripped the Maluku islands Monday, as church leaders and protesters demanded the United Nations intervene and officials reportedly declared a limited state of

emergency to halt escalating fighting between Muslims and Christians.

 

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International conference center booby-trapped    

June 27, 2000   

   

PARIS (AP) - Workers on Monday found a package booby-trapped with 25 sticks of dynamite at a work site facing the International Conference Center in the French capital, not far from the Arc de Triomphe, police said.  

 

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Thai elephant dies after voracious eating

June 27, 2000   

   

BANGKOK (AP) - A starving Thai elephant died after eating 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of uncooked rice then drinking 250 liters (65 gallons) of water, a veterinarian said Monday.

 

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Speight: Shaving off the head of Fiji politics

June 26, 2000   

  

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Gunmen holding Fiji's deposed government at gunpoint released four female captives Sunday, but gave no commitment on when they would free the remaining 27 hostages.  

 

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Japan: The latest country to try political dynasty

June 26, 2000   

 

TOKYO (AP) - The daughter of late former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi won her father's seat Parliament in Sunday's general election, demonstrating the enduring mystique of political dynasties

among Japan's electorate.

 

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"Palestine is ours, ours, ours!": Arafat

June 26, 2000   

  

JERUSALEM, (AP) - Turning up the heat on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told thousands of cheering supporters in the West Bank on Sunday that Palestinian

statehood could be proclaimed within weeks. "Palestine is ours, ours, ours!" he declared.

 

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S Koreans to remain vigilant towards N Korea 

June 26, 2000   

  

SEOUL (AP) - Addressing thousands of military veterans on the 50th anniversary of the start of the Korean War, President Kim Dae-jung on Sunday urged his armed forces to remain alert despite moves toward reconciliation with communist North Korea.

 

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Ferry disaster in China

June 26, 2000   

 

BEIJING (AP) - The capsizing of a river ferry packed with farmers headed to market in southwestern China last week may have killed up to 131 people, state media said Sunday.

 

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Leading Bosnian war crimes suspect arrested

June 26, 2000   

 

SARAJEVO, (AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers Sunday arrested a leading Serb war crimes suspect accused of massacring Muslim and Croat prisoners while he commanded the notorious Keraterm

prison camp during the Bosnian war.

 

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Globo d'Oro (Golden Globe) award announced

June 26, 2000   

 

ROME (AP) - A Chilean-born man's story about the abduction and torture of a young woman during Argentine military rule of the 1970s has been chosen best film by the foreign press based in Italy.

 

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First-ever parliamentary election in Zimbabwe

June 25, 2000   

 

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - For the first time since independence, Zimbabweans are faced with a real opportunity to change the face of their government when they cast votes in two-day parliamentary

elections beginning Saturday.

 

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Gore’s answers matches Clinton’s in Monica case

June 25, 2000   

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - Wrestling with the meaning of the term "fund raising" and insisting there was no price tag on White House coffees, U.S. Vice President Al Gore engaged in sometimes sharp exchanges with a Justice Department prosecutor who now wants a special counsel to investigate the truthfulness of Gore's answers.  

 

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National Guard records not earth-shattering

June 25, 2000   

 

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush's campaign workers have concluded that no documents exist showing he reported for duty as ordered in Alabama with the Texas Air National Guard in 1972.  

 

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Indonesian President face police interrogation

June 25, 2000   

 

JAKARTA (AP) - Police have questioned Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid over a bizarre and politically damaging scandal in which his masseur is accused of using his name to steal dlrs 4 million from the national food agency.

 

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50th anniversary of ‘Forgotten War'

June 25, 2000   

 

PANMUNJOM, Korea, (AP) - Fifty years after North Korea attacked the South, Korean War veterans gathered at former battlegrounds to remember the "Forgotten War" that lasted three years, cost millions of lives and left a small peninsula nation divided.

 

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Korean-War Anniversary: Casualty records

June 25, 2000   

 

UNDATED(AP) - Casualty totals from the 1950-53 Korean War:  

 

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Revitalization of OIC demanded by Malaysia

June 25, 2000   

 

KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - The Organization of the Islamic Conference must be revitalized to meet the challenges of globalization, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar said Saturday.

 

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Dutch trucker charged as police seek identity of 58 illegal immigrants

June 24, 2000   

 

LONDON (AP) - The Dutch driver of a truck in which 58 Chinese illegal immigrants died in an airtight compartment was due to appear court Friday on charges of manslaughter.

 

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Rebels reject government's autonomy offer

June 24, 2000   

 

COLOMBO (AP) - The government's efforts to end the 17-year-old Tamil separatist war suffered a serious setback Friday with the Tamil Tiger rebels rejecting its offer to join an Interim

Council to administer Tamil majority areas.

 

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Deadlock broken on talks to release Fiji's hostages

June 24, 2000    

 

SUVA, Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military rulers and gunmen holding 31members of the former government hostage reached a deal Friday that would see the captives released within days, key players on both

sides said.

 

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Parliament debates Putin's plan to curb provinces' rights

June 24, 2000    

 

MOSCOW (AP) - Regional officials have challenged President Vladimir Putin's proposal to rein in Russia's unruly provinces, but most lawmakers were expected to back the bill in a key legislative

session Friday.

 

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 Tung rejects call for more democracy amid string of problems

June 24, 2000    

 

HONG KONG (AP) - Despite growing public dissatisfaction with unemployment, a depressed property market and a series of housing scandals, Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa said Friday he has no plans to allow more democracy.

 

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 Parliamentary election signals white: Zimbabweans return to politics

June 24, 2000  

 

NYATI, Zimbabwe (AP) - An unspoken compromise has governed Zimbabwe since it gained independence from white-minority rule: Whites could keep their farms, their businesses, their economic dominance, as long as they did not interfere with the ruling party's political dominance.

 

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 Muslim-Christian fighting enters third day in Ambon, 10 killed

June 24, 2000  

 

TERNATE, Indonesia (AP) - Fierce sectarian street battles flared for a third straight day in Ambon, the capital of the Maluku islands, on Friday, killing at least 10 people, residents and officials said.

 

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Airbus announces launch of A3XX super-jumbo jet

June 24, 2000  

 

PARIS, (AP) - Airbus Industries announced Friday the launch of the long-awaited A3XX double-decker jumbo jet that can carry 555 people, creating a classy and powerful new competitor to Boeing's long-haul aircraft.

     

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Nurse kills children under own care!! 

June 23, 2000   

  

LONDON, JUNE 22 (AP) - British police are investigating a nurse in connection with the deaths of children in her care.

 

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Obuchi’s daughter gets hate mail with bullet

June 23, 2000   

 

TOKYO, (AP) - The daughter of a late Japanese prime minister received troubling mail this week - an envelope containing an empty bullet cartridge.

 

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Sex Bias: Airhostesses told not to gain weight

June 23, 2000   

  

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - United Airlines discriminated against female flight attendants from 1989 to 1994 by requiring them to stay thinner than their male counterparts, a federal court ruled.

 

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Buckingham Palace needs $ 105,000 for wardrobes

June 23, 2000   

   

LONDON (AP) - British taxpayers spent 15 million pounds (dlrs 22 million) on maintenance of royal palaces last year – including 70,000 pounds (dlrs 105,000) for a set of new wardrobes at Buckingham Palace.

 

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Open fire by guards at apparel industry

June 23, 2000   

   

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Security guards at a Cambodian garment factory opened fire on a mob of striking workers Thursday, injuring at least one of about 1,000 protesters demanding a substantial pay raise.

 

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‘Superman’ wants under-populated ‘super planet’

June 23, 2000   

   

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - In an impassioned speech at an award ceremony honoring Tipper Gore's work with children, paralyzed U.S. actor Christopher Reeve urged world leaders to take urgent action to stop global population growth.

 

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Bush doubles lead over Gore

June 23, 2000   

   

WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush has built a double-digit lead over Al Gore in a new bipartisan poll, getting more credit as the

presidential candidate who would keep America prosperous and showing strength among groups Gore needs to win.

 

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“Only after Israel honors promises”: Arafath

June 23, 2000   

   

RAMALLAH (AP) - On the eve of a renewed U.S. mediation effort, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat said Thursday that a Mideast summit should only be convened in Washington after Israel honors its outstanding obligations.

 

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One year in prison for wanting to celebrate Assad's death 

June 22, 2000   

  

BEIRUT (AP) - A military court has sentenced a Lebanese man to one year in prison after he was found guilty of vilifying the late Syrian President Hafez Assad by telling friends and relatives Assad's death was cause for celebration, court officials said Wednesday.

 

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Professor jailed for insulting Islam leaves for exams  

June 22, 2000   

  

TEHRAN (AP) - A prominent journalist and university professor jailed on charges of insulting Islam and inciting dissent has been allowed a short leave to prepare exams, his family said Wednesday.

 

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Attempt to enter Guinness book with a bench

June 22, 2000

 

TOKYO (AP) - Need a place to sit? Organizers of a flower show in western Japan have a seat with plenty of room: a 555-meter (1,832 foot) bench touted as the world's longest.

 

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Smithsonian to display Dresden Green and Hope diamond

June 22, 2000  

 

WASHINGTON (AP) - This fall, visitors to the National Museum of Natural History will be able to see what are probably the two most famous diamonds in the world.

     

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