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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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