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U.N. condemns Israeli ''excessive use of force''
October 21, 2000
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a third U.N. admonition of Israel, the General Assembly voted Friday to condemn the ``excessive use of force'' by Israeli troops against Palestinians and called for a truce and resumption of peace talks.
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Mideast truce fails
October 21, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) -- The Israeli-Palestinian & brokered by President Clinton collapsed in a hail of gunfire Friday, with Israeli troops killing nine Palestinians and wounding 67. Amid the worst fighting in two weeks, Israel's prime minister said he will call a timeout to rethink Israel's commitment to peace talks.
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Bush, Gore Jostle Over Economy
October 21, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) -- Al Gore and George W. Bush sparred over their rival economic plans Thursday, casting the election as a referendum on national prosperity. "The choice couldn't be clearer,'' said Gore, and Bush agreed -- but with a different version of whom to choose.
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Ex-Sgt. pleads guilty in bomb case
October 21, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) -- A former Army sergeant pleaded guilty Friday to helping plot the deadly U.S. embassy bombings in Africa, admitting he joined terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden and others in a holy war to kill Americans anywhere they could be found.
Ali Mohamed, a 48-year-old native of Egypt, is the first to plead guilty of the 17 key people indicted in the United States for the 1998 bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The attacks killed 224 people, including 12 Americans.
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Clinton Hails Fallen Gov. Carnahan
October 21, 2000
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missourians remembered Mel Carnahan, the governor who died while seeking the Senate seat once held by Harry Truman, with emotional ceremonies that drew mourners by the thousands.
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Air traffic radar failure in USA
October 21, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Air traffic controllers grounded hundreds of airliners headed into the Southwest on Thursday because of repeated failures of the radar computer guiding flights into the region.
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Arafat asks Palestinians to observe truce
October 19, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian militiamen fired at Israeli troops
and rock-throwing erupted at friction points in the West Bank and
Gaza on Wednesday, despite Yasser Arafat's call to street activists
to observe a U.S.-brokered cease-fire with Israel. Still, neither
side walked away from the hard-won truce.
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Arab foreign ministers review state of Mideast peace
October 19, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - Arabs who blame Israel for the flare-up in
violence in Israel and the Palestinian territories are now waiting
to see whether the Jewish state follows its cease-fire promise with
action, Egypt's Foreign Minister Amr Moussa said Wednesday.
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Amtrak finally ready to unleash fast train
October 19, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - A year behind schedule, America's first 240 kph
(150 mph) trains, linking Boston and Washington, could be ready to
roll next month.
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Sri Lanka's new Parliament meets
October 19, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Anti-aircraft guns and commandoes watched over the new Parliament as it gathered Wednesday, hours after government troops beat back a fierce Tamil rebel attack on a northern army camp.
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World's largest book fair opens with emphasis on digital future
October 19, 2000
FRANKFURT (AP) - Authors, publishers and librarians packed the convention halls Wednesday as the Frankfurt Book Fair opened for its 52nd year, aiming to take the printed word into the digital age.
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Torture on the increase around the world
October 19, 2000
LONDON (AP) - More people than ever around the world are being subjected to beatings, rape, electric shock and other forms of torture, despite the rising number of democratic regimes, Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Both sides agree to work toward cease-fire
October 18, 2000
SHARM EL-SHEIK (AP/Bangla2000) - Israel and the Palestinians agreed
Tuesday to end the violence that has torn their region apart for
more than two weeks and to get back on the path toward a permanent
solution to their conflict.
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Republicans have twice-as-much money as Democrats
October 18, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - The Republican National Committee entered the
final month of the campaign with more than twice as much money to
spend as the Democrats, funds that can be used to help George W.
Bush's presidential campaign.
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Astronauts prepare for third spacewalk
October 18, 2000
SPACE CENTER (AP) - A pair of astronauts floated outside
space shuttle Discovery on Tuesday for a third straight day of
spacewalking work on the expanding international space station.
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Government removes zoo curator following tigress death
October 18, 2000
HYDERABAD (AP) - Authorities in southern India on Tuesday
transferred the conservator of a zoo where a 13-month-old tigress
was killed and skinned two weeks ago by unidentified intruders.
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Chernomyrdin lambastes Bush's "bushism": "this one is something else"
October 17, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
on Monday accused U.S. Republican presidential nominee George W.
Bush of telling a "lie" when he said Russian officials had misused
foreign aid funds, and he demanded a public apology.
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Clinton calls upon Arafat & Barak to 'move beyond blame'
October 17, 2000
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sat face-to-face at a table
with U.S. President Bill Clinton and other leaders in an emergency
summit Monday. "We have to move beyond blame," Clinton declared.
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Greece issues ultimatum for resolution of NATO exercise dispute
October 17, 2000
ATHENS (AP) - Greece on Monday issued an ultimatum for
NATO to resolve a dispute over a military exercise in the Aegean Sea
which has rekindled long-standing boundary disputes with regional
rival Turkey.
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U.S. officials in Moscow for talks on Afghanistan
October 17, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - U.S. Undersecretary of State Thomas Pickering
arrived in Moscow on Monday for talks on Afghanistan's involvement
in international terrorism, officials said.
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Chernomyrdin lambastes Bush's "bushism": "this one is something else"
October 17, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
on Monday accused U.S. Republican presidential nominee George W.
Bush of telling a "lie" when he said Russian officials had misused
foreign aid funds, and he demanded a public apology.
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Clinton calls upon Arafat & Barak to 'move beyond blame'
October 17, 2000
SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat sat face-to-face at a table
with U.S. President Bill Clinton and other leaders in an emergency
summit Monday. "We have to move beyond blame," Clinton declared.
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Greece issues ultimatum for resolution of NATO exercise dispute
October 17, 2000
ATHENS (AP) - Greece on Monday issued an ultimatum for
NATO to resolve a dispute over a military exercise in the Aegean Sea
which has rekindled long-standing boundary disputes with regional
rival Turkey.
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Expectations low as sides prepare for Mideast summit
October 16, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak met with his Cabinet Sunday to discuss Israel's position ahead of a crucial Mideast summit while Yasser Arafat held talks with political faction leaders including those from the Islamic militants groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
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Milosevic's allies still reluctant to give up power
October 16, 2000
BELGRADE (AP) - President Vojislav Kostunica met his allies Sunday to find ways to push Slobodan Milosevic's rival camp into a definite agreement on how to share power in the country's main republic, Serbia.
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Sri Lankan president faces pulls of coalition politics
October 16, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - After a close election victory,
President Chandrika Kumaratunga is gearing for another tough battle: running a jigsaw coalition that props up her government, and wants a lot in return.
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Hezbollah claims capture of high-ranking Israeli soldier
October 16, 2000
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Pro-government forces likely to sweep Belarus Elections
October 16, 2000
MINSK, Belarus (AP) - Pro-government forces in Belarus looked set to sweep parliamentary elections Sunday after many independent candidates were barred from running and the opposition promised to boycott the vote.
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Philippine troop arrest 36 suspected Muslim rebels
October 16, 2000
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Philippine troops arrested 36 people believed to be members or supporters of a Muslim rebel group that is holding four hostages, including an American, an official said Sunday.
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Injured U.S. sailors head home from Germany
October 16, 2000
RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (AP) - Thirty-three U.S. sailors injured in an attack on their ship in Yemen headed home Sunday after treatment by military doctors in Germany, but six shipmates who were more seriously hurt stayed behind.
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Flooding hits northern Italy, 1 reported dead
October 16, 2000
AOSTA, Italy (AP) - An unrelenting three-day deluge flooded northwest Italy on Sunday and sent rivers surging over their banks. Authorities evacuated 1,500 people; one person was reported dead and an unknown number of others missing.
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Hawaiian wins Miss America Pageant
October 16, 2000
ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (AP) - Miss Hawaii Angela Perez Baraquio, an elementary school gym teacher, was crowned Miss America 2001. The 24-year-old said she plans to promote character education during her yearlong reign.
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‘Unbuttoning’ the political intricacies
October 15, 2000
FRENCHTOWN, Ohio (AP) - The clacking sound of metal discs
streaming into packing boxes at Tigereye Design Inc. is a sure sign
the political season is in full swing.
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World's first woman prime minister given state funeral
October 15, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's
first woman prime minister, was buried next to her husband's grave
Saturday at her ancestral home.
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Clinton will attend peace summit in Egypt
October 15, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bill Clinton said Saturday he will
attend a Mideast summit Monday in Egypt with Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
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A day of glory for one Kim, humiliation for another
October 15, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - It was a day of glory for President Kim
Dae-jung. But for his lifetime critic and predecessor, former
President Kim Young-sam, it was a day of humiliation.
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Korean immigrants proud of President Kim’s peace efforts
October 15, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Koreatown, always bustling, exuded special
pride as residents learned the South Korean President won this
year's Nobel Peace Prize.
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Philippine president apologizes for gambling operations
October 15, 2000
MANILA (AP) - President Joseph Estrada apologized
Saturday for a mounting scandal over alleged gambling payoffs to him
and said he would end the Philippine government's extensive
involvement in gambling operations.
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Space shuttle astronauts run into electrical problem
October 15, 2000
SPACE CENTER (AP) - The crew of space shuttle Discovery
begins a week of demanding orbital construction work Saturday,
starting with the installation of an aluminum truss onto the
international space station.
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Chinese premier highlights friendly image on TV show
October 15, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Eager to soften China's image with the Japanese
public, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji on Saturday answered a variety of
questions on a nationally televised "town hall" meeting - even one
half in jest about whether he was afraid of his wife.
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Police arrest brother of man rewarded for finding Oscars
October 15, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The brother of the man rewarded for finding 52
of 55 Oscar statuettes stolen just before this year's Academy Awards
has been arrested in connection with the theft.
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Arafat's compound
targeted by Israeli rocket
October 14, 2000
GAZA CITY, OCT 13 (AP) - In a day of incendiary violence that
left Mideast peacemaking in ashes, Israeli helicopters rocketed
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's compound Thursday in retaliation
for the mutilation of three Israeli soldiers by a mob of enraged
Palestinians.
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A summit likely on Palestine-Israel issue
October 14, 2000
JERUSALEM, OCT 13 (AP) - Israel and the Palestinians on Friday were close
to arranging a weekend summit that would include the United States,
Egypt, Jordan and the United Nations in a high-level attempt to end
more than two weeks of violence, Palestinian officials said.
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Sadako Ogata receives Seoul peace prize
October 14, 2000
SEOUL, OCT 13 (AP) - The U.N. high commissioner for
refugees, Sadako Ogata, received this year's Seoul Peace Prize in a
ceremony in Seoul Friday.
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First ever Nobel prize for a Korean
October 14, 2000
SEOUL, OCT 13 (AP) - Fireworks lit up Seoul's sky Friday
after President Kim Dae-jung was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and
villagers danced and drank in the island town where he was born.
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Explosion in USS Cole deliberate
October 14, 2000
WASHINGTON, OCT 13 (AP) - Navy explosives experts have determined without
doubt that the explosion that tore through the USS Cole, killing 17,
"was a blast from the outside," adding to the evidence that it was
a deliberate act, Adm. Vern Clark said Friday.
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Jaswant Singh's visit to Saudi Arabia next week
October 14, 2000
NEW DELHI, OCT 13 (AP) - India's oil security and its concerns
over international terrorism will be the focus of External Affairs
Minister Jaswant Singh's visit to Saudi Arabia next week, the
foreign ministry said Friday.
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Kostunica's warm debut
October 14, 2000
BIARRITZ, France, OCT 13 (AP) - Yugoslavia's new president Vojislav
Kostunica can rest assured that his reluctance to bring Serb
suspects to the war crimes tribunal will not cloud his international
debut at a European Union summit Saturday, officials said.
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Uzbekistan to recognize Taliban control
October 14, 2000
TASHKENT, Uzbekistan, OCT 13 (AP) - In a sharp break from its neighbors'
united opposition to the Taliban, Uzbekistan is considering
recognizing the radical Islamic government in Afghanistan - a move
that would make it only the fourth country to do so.
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Bosnia war crimes suspect kills himself
October 14, 2000
AMSTERDAM, OCT 13 (AP) - A war crimes suspect resisting
arrest in Bosnia detonated a hand grenade that killed himself and
wounded four German soldiers of the NATO-led peace force, officials
said Friday.
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Chinese novelist Gao Xingjian wins Nobel Prize in literature
October 13, 2000
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Dissident Chinese writer Gao Xingjian, who fled his native country after a play was banned, won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday for writings about the struggle of the individual that have opened new paths for Chinese literature.
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Approaching ‘Super-Tuesday’: Yet no breakthroughs
October 13, 2000
WINSTON-SALEM, North Carolina (AP) - George W. Bush held his own on foreign policy, his weakest issue, and mangled his words just once. Al Gore wasn't condescending and apologized for past embellishments.
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Former Indian Prime Minister Rao sentenced 3 years in prison
October 13, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Former Prime Minister Narasimha Rao was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison for bribing lawmakers to back his government on a crucial confidence vote that saved his government in July 1993.
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Israeli soldiers killed in West Bank after attack by Palestinians
October 13, 2000
RAMALLAH (AP) - A Palestinian mob killed two Israeli reserve soldiers and dumped their bloodied bodies in the street after a group of four servicemen were captured Thursday in the explosive West Bank town of Ramallah, witnesses said.
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Ruling party wins majority of votes in parliamentary elections
October 13, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - President Chandrika Kumaratunga's party won most of the vote in parliamentary elections, officials said Thursday, but it was still too early for her to claim victory.
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New president to reestablish ties with US despite obstruction
October 13, 2000
BELGRADE (AP) - Slobodan Milosevic's party announced leadership changes Thursday as it struggles to find a way to stem the steady erosion of its power and influence to the newly elected president, Vojislav Kostunica.
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Chinese victims of Tiananmen assault demand trial for leader
October 13, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - People wounded or who lost family members in the Chinese military's assault on Tiananmen Square protesters appealed Thursday for international pressure to bring China's No. 2 communist leader to trial over the crackdown.
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Cattle perishing in flood-hit Bangladesh
October 12, 2000
KASHIANI (AP) - When gushing flood waters submerged
his mud walled house two weeks ago farmer Abdur Rahman grabbed a
boat and ferried his two cattle to a mud embankment.
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Two Americans win the Nobel Prize in economics
October 12, 2000
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Two Americans won the Nobel Prize in economics Wednesday for developing theories on how people work and live, contributing greatly to changes in wage analysis and transportation and communication systems.
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A Russian & 2 US scientists share Nobel Prize in physics
October 12, 2000
STOCKHOLM (AP) - A Russian and two U.S.-based researchers won the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for work that helped create modern information technology, leading to everyday devices like the pocket calculator and cellular phones.
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Russian Nobel Prize winner urges more spending on science
October 12, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Trying to turn his Nobel Prize into political
capital, Russian physicist Zhores Alferov said on Wednesday that he
intended to work for increased state spending on Russia's scientific
labs and institutes.
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Japan congratulates Nobel Prize winner
October 12, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Japan's latest Nobel prize winner, chemist Hideki
Shirakawa, said he was a bit overwhelmed Wednesday as news of the
award brought front-page headlines, a telegraph from the prime
minister and a congratulatory visit from a representative of the
Swedish Embassy.
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Capitals buzz with speculation about Nobel Peace Prize
October 12, 2000
OSLO (AP) - Speculation about who will win the Nobel
Peace Prize is buzzing in Seoul about their president, in Tehran
about their leader and in Helsinki about their Balkan peace broker.
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Clinton rules out quick trip to Egypt for Mideast summit
October 12, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bill Clinton appeared Wednesday to
rule out a quick trip to Egypt for a Mideast summit, saying his most
important priority was to stop the violence between Israelis and
Palestinians and get the peace process back on track.
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Barak & Arafat hold unscheduled meetings with UN secretary general
October 12, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - With tension easing somewhat, U.N. Secretary
General Kofi Annan held unexpected talks Wednesday with the Israeli
and Palestinian leaders in hopes of mediating a truce and paving the
way for the resumption of peace talks.
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Mob led by Islamic clerics attack Hindu colony
October 12, 2000
QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) - A mob led by Islamic clerics attacked
homes of Hindus living in southwestern Pakistan after a Hindu woman
apparently destroyed a copy of the Muslim holy book, the Koran, a
police official said Wednesday.
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Women from Burundi, Kyrgyzstan & US receive journalism awards
October 12, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - A journalist from Burundi who has continued
reporting despite death threats, a newspaper editor who has been
jailed in Kyrgyzstan, and an America war correspondent who came
under fire in Kosovo and Chechnya received Courage in Journalism
awards.
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France denies extradition of former Red Brigades
October 12, 2000
BASTIA, Corsica (AP) - A court on Wednesday rejected an Italian
extradition request for Alvaro Loiacono, former member of the Red
Brigades terrorist group, and accused of participating in the 1978
murder of Italian Premier Aldo Moro.
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Russia test-fires aging ballistic missile
October 12, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia test-fired a 16-year-old Topol ballistic
missile on Wednesday to determine whether the aging class of missile
is still reliable, a military spokesman said.
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2 Americans & a Japanese wins Nobel in chemistry
October 11, 2000
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Americans Alan J. Heeger, Alan G. MacDiarmid and Hideki Shirakawa of Japan won the Nobel Prize in
chemistry Tuesday for their discoveries that plastic can be made electrically conductive.
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Srimavo Bandarnaike’s death overshadows elections
October 11, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Shelling by Tamil Tiger rebels,
election-eve murders and the untimely death of the matriarch of
national politics cast a pall over Parliament elections Tuesday.
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Former Soviet states sign economic union treaty
October 11, 2000
ALMATY (AP) - The leaders of Russia and four other
former Soviet republics agreed at a summit in the Kazak capital
Astana on Tuesday to form a new organization aimed at integrating
their economies and boosting trade.
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UN rights panel to hold emergency session
October 11, 2000
GENEVA (AP) - Arab countries won approval Tuesday for an
emergency session of the U.N. Human Rights Commission to examine
Israeli-Palestinian clashes in the West Bank and Gaza, U.N.
officials said.
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Italian premier to visit Belgrade
October 11, 2000
ROME (AP) - Italian Premier Giuliano Amato said Tuesday he will
visit Belgrade later this week to personally congratulate
Yugoslavia's new president, Vojislav Kostunica, and "see for
himself" that the Milosevic era was ending.
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Hun Sen says flood damage is huge: wants more help
October 11, 2000
PHNOM PENH (AP) - Prime Minister Hun Sen said Tuesday
that damage from Cambodia's worst flooding in history has reached
dlrs 79 million, and again appealed for international assistance.
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Thai Cabinet stalls on controversial power plants
October 11, 2000
BANGKOK (AP)- The government Tuesday stalled a decision on
building two coal-fired power plants that have come under intense
criticism from environmentalists and villagers.
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Three scientists share Nobel Prize in medicine
October 10, 2000
STOCKHOLM (Bangla2000 news-desk/AP) - A Swede and two U.S. researchers won the
Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for discoveries about how messages
are transmitted between brain cells, work that has paid off for
treating Parkinson's disease and depression.
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