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Strike hits Kashmir valley for second day
July 21, 2000
SRINAGAR (AP) - All shops and businesses remained shut in a troubled town in Jammu-Kashmir state for the second day Thursday as residents accused Indian security forces of killing four local teen-agers in custody.
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Hillary Rodham wasn’t even a ‘Clinton’ then
July 21, 2000
ALBANY (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton says she is done
talking about allegations that she used an obscenity-laced,
anti-Semitic slur during a heated discussion with a campaign aide to
her future husband 26 years ago.
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Bush still running without a running mate
July 21, 2000
AUSTIN (AP) - George W. Bush said that he was on the verge
of picking his running mate and suggested that a vice presidential
candidate should pose little political risk to the ticket. "You
want somebody who's not going to hurt you," Bush said.
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Birth of a new creed
July 21, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - The National Park Service has decided to retain
a disputed "Japanese American creed" for a memorial to Japanese
Americans who fought in World War II or were interned in camps.
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Iraqi:Arab-Israeli pied-piper of Huma’gene
July 21, 2000
NAIROBI (AP) - Nibbling away in boxes filled with wood
chips in a building overlooking the Ngong Hills, thousands of Kenyan
mice are ready for the most important job of their lives.
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Do you want to fund war? Easy, buy diamonds!
July 21, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - Most diamond buyers think about cost and quality
- not bloody African wars.
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Without Paul Young, everyday hurts for fans
July 21, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Singer Paul Young, who found fame with the band Mike and the Mechanics, has died. He was 53.
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Minister quits in a row over Hindu fundamentalism
July 20, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - In an apparent game of power play, a federal minister belonging to a Hindu party quit the prime minister's Cabinet Wednesday over plans to arrest his volatile leader for inciting violence against Muslims, news reports said.
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A lobster salad: More interesting than Gore
July 20, 2000
KANSAS CITY, Missouri. (AP) - How much Al Gore is too much? Apparently, 13 minutes' worth - when it's 9:15 p.m. and he's standing between you and the lobster salad.
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Suu Kyi pays respect to Aung San
July 20, 2000
YANGON (AP) - Prodemocracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday laid flowers at the tomb of her father, Myanmar's leading independence hero, at a state ceremony marking the 53rd anniversary of his assassination.
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Make haste, you two; he’s to meet the other 7
July 19, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - The Camp David summit was entering a make-or-break day Tuesday, with President Bill Clinton saying
through a spokesman he hopes the parties will have "wrapped up their business" by the time he is to leave for Japan the following morning.
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Crashed plane was 20:not even a teenager
July 19, 2000
PATNA (AP) - A Boeing 737-200 jet that crashed and burst
into flames Monday, killing 55 people on board and on the ground in
this eastern Indian city, was scheduled to be taken out of service
by the end of the year.
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Fiji’s new president with Parkinson’s disease
July 19, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Fiji's new president, a frail and elderly
tribal chief, committed himself Tuesday to forging reconciliation in
his ethnically divided South Pacific nation.
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From hush-hush to bla-bla
July 19, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Almost lost in the shadow of the hush-hush
Mideast talks at Camp David, a dramatically different summit awaits
U.S. President Bill Clinton this week.
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Gore and Bush running neck to neck
July 19, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Al Gore campaigned about the nation's prosperity for the last month as the Democratic National Committee
flooded key states with millions of dollars in advertising. This week, Gore got a hint the intensive effort may have helped, with two new national polls showing the presidential race is even.
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3 million pesos apiece won’t do
July 19, 2000
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Malaysian negotiators attempted Tuesday to repair a sudden snag in talks with Philippine Muslim
rebels that blocked the scheduled release of seven Malaysian hostages, officials said Tuesday.
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‘Mopping up’ of administration to begin
July 19, 2000
NAZRAN, Russia (AP) - In a brash challenge to Russian military commanders and Chechnya's civilian administrator, a pro-Moscow
Chechen leader ordered his men to search for rebels in the republic's temporary capital and in the civilian administration itself.
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Alcohol: The parent criminal of all crimes
July 19, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Violent crime in Britain has risen 16 percent over the last year, statistics released on Tuesday showed - and the
country's top law enforcement official blamed the increase on
alcohol abuse.
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Prince Charles will not remarry Camilla
July 19, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Prince Charles does not intend marrying his
longtime
companion Camilla Parker Bowles, according to a letter
issued by his private secretary.
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Princess who married the marine,not Prince
July 19, 2000
SAN DIEGO (AP) - A judge Monday refused to dismiss charges of
illegally entering the United States against a princess from Bahrain
who used forged military documents to flee her country and marry a
U.S. Marine.
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Swedish workers make world's biggest ladle
July 19, 2000
STOCKHOLM (AP) - Three local handicraftsmen in a southern Swedish village have scooped out a place in the record books by
making the world's biggest wooden ladle.
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“God, it's hard”:- Clinton
July 18, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - In a break with the secrecy surrounding
the Camp David summit, President Bill Clinton says these peace talks
are "the hardest thing I've ever seen" and that while he hopes for
a deal, he does not know if one can be reached.
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Crash kills 60 passengers and flat residents
July 18, 2000
PATNA, India (AP) - Nearly 60 people died Monday when an Alliance
Air plane crashed onto houses during a second landing attempt at
Patna airport in eastern India, the Civil Aviation Ministry said.
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International help may be sought in Maluku
July 18, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - With violence spiraling out of control
in the Maluku islands and the military taking sides in the religious
war, Indonesia's president said Monday that limited international
assistance may be required to end the conflict.
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Hamas leader doesn’t want to be sold out
July 18, 2000
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, spiritual leader of
the militant Islamic Hamas group, called on Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat Monday to abandon peace talks at Camp David, saying
the summit was doomed to fail the Palestinians.
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The defendant’s last speech
July 18, 2000
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Taking what may be his last chance
to address a public forum for many years, ousted deputy premier
Anwar Ibrahim took over his own defense Monday and insisted that the
sex trial he has been put through results from a "dirty,
despicable" conspiracy.
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Hillary didn’t utter the words,” Jew bastards”
July 18, 2000
CHAPPAQUA, New York (AP) - A tense moment the night Bill Clinton
lost a Congressional bid in Arkansas 26 years ago has returned to
embroil Hillary Rodham Clinton in controversy.
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Playwright turned President’s appeal
July 18, 2000
PRAGUE (AP) - Czech President Vaclav Havel
appealed to the constitutional court Monday, demanding that some
provisions in a newly amended election law be abolished because they
may violate the constitution, his spokesman said.
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World’s 1st nuclear bomb founder dies
July 18, 2000
CANBERRA (AP) - Australian physicist Sir Mark
Oliphant, who helped lay the foundations for the world's first
nuclear bomb before turning against weapons of mass destruction, has
died, his family announced Monday. He was 98.
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Hard luck for cult; its their doomsday instead
July 18, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - A Japanese court sentenced two former
leaders of a doomsday cult to death Monday for spraying nerve gas in
a deadly 1995 attack on the Tokyo subways.
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Half-way through Camp David summit
July 17, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - With only three full days remaining
before U.S. President Bill Clinton was scheduled to leave for Japan,
U.S. officials at the Camp David summit said the pace of
negotiations had picked up and the two sides were zeroing in on
their most difficult disputes.
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Booby-trapped bomb explosion in train
July 17, 2000
KARACHI (AP) - A bomb ripped through a crowded
passenger train bound for the city of Karachi in southern Pakistan
Sunday, killing 10 people and injuring 30 others, railway officials
and doctors said.
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Indians about to become 2nd-class citizens
July 17, 2000
SUVA (AP) - The first ethnic Indian to lead Fiji says he
would not try to dissuade minorities from leaving the South Pacific
nation as it moves to turn them into second-class citizens.
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Mahathir steps into adulthood leaving 'teens
July 17, 2000
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Prime Minister Mahathir
Mohamad on Sunday celebrated 19 years of rule in Malaysia with a trip
to the country's largest state, even as the opposition took swipes at him
over his handling of a recent national security scare.
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New cabinet for Zimbabwe
July 17, 2000
HARARE (AP) - President Robert Mugabe has appointed 19
ministers to his Cabinet, cutting the number of ministers by eight,
state radio reported.
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Alas! No chance of 'Queen Grand mom honors list'
July 17, 2000
LONDON (AP) - In a break with royal tradition, Queen Mother
Elizabeth may get a birthday honors list of her own to mark her
100th year, Buckingham Palace said Saturday.
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They've been eating, not raining, cats and dogs
July 17, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Thailand is set to ban the consumption
and sale of dog and cat meat in response to pressure from animal
welfare groups and Western governments, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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The Pope John Paul: The hope for all
July 17, 2000
ROME
(AP) - In bright sunshine, hunched over on his throne before the sparkling,
newly scrubbed facade of St. Peter's basilica, Pope John Paul II charmed yet
another multitude of Jubilee Year pilgrims thronging the historic square for
his weekly general audience.
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Give peace a chance!
July 16, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (UNB) - The Mideast peace negotiations at the
secluded Camp David presidential retreat are focusing on bedrock
differences. So it should come as no surprise that by all accounts -
and not much is being said publicly - progress has been an uphill
struggle.
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Iloilo shouldn’t be a Speight figurehead
July 16, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Vowing not to run away from Fiji's problems,
deposed Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry said Saturday he would seek
reinstatement of his government but admitted he has few options if
indigenous Fijians don't agree to restore democracy.
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New vixen for most eligible bachelor Fox
July 16, 2000
MEXICO CITY (AP) - Mexico City was abuzz Friday over reports that
Vicente Fox, president-elect and the country's most eligible
bachelor, was planning to tie the knot - with his media director.
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Putin to put in more effort befriending China
July 16, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov and Chinese
officials crafted a statement Saturday for their presidents that
condemns U.S. plans for a national missile defense system, a
diplomat said.
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Former Formosa may become former Taiwan
July 16, 2000
SHANGHAI, China (AP) - Sharing a sense of urgency, both the
United States and China want movement soon on reconciling Taiwan
with the mainland. After three days of talks with senior Chinese
officials, however, Defense Secretary William Cohen heard little
more than a softening of tone.
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Golf carts collided, not the delegates
July 16, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - The issues are intractable, says the
Camp David summit spokesman, but there is also time for Israeli and
Palestinian negotiators to ride a bicycle or get behind the wheel of
a golf cart.
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Plasma heading toward Earth at 3 m. mph
July 16, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - A magnetic storm that could disrupt radio
transmissions and satellites - and also produce colorful northern
lights - is expected to strike the earth Saturday and could last
until Monday.
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Deadly touchdown of a tornado
July 16, 2000
PINE LAKE, Alberta (AP) - A tornado touched down at a crowded
campground in the western Canadian province of Alberta, tossing
trailers into a lake and killing at least seven people with 79
others injured, a local official said.
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5 still missing in ferry disaster
July 16, 2000
MANILA (AP) - At least four passengers and one crew
member remained missing Saturday after a ferry sank off the island
province of Cebu, a Philippine coast guard official said.
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Money stops changing Church into Mosque
July 16, 2000
PALOS HEIGHTS, Illinois (AP) - A Muslim group that had planned to
turn a suburban Chicago church into a mosque has decided to accept
dlrs 200,000 from the city to walk away from the deal, officials
representing the Al Salam Mosque Foundation said Friday.
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Fiji rebels keep up campaign for political power
July 15, 2000
SUVA, (AP) - A day after releasing the last of their political
hostages, Fijian rebels maintained pressure on the Pacific country's
tribal chiefs Friday by issuing thinly veiled threats of more civil
strife unless they are installed in government.
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Silence, secrecy and perseverance as peace talks move into fourthday
July 15, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - Entering a fourth day of Mideast
negotiations at secluded Camp David, American mediators expressed
dogged determination to move the talks forward - and an equally
fervent desire to maintain a veil of secrecy over the proceedings.
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Albright reaffirms international support for Montenegro
July 15, 2000
WASHINGTON, (AP) - Secretary of State Madeleine Albright reassured
the leader of Montenegro Thursday that the U.S. still supports the
Balkan nation in the face of Serbian hostility.
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Indonesian groups oppose military ties with the United States
July 15, 2000
UNITED NATIONS, (AP) - Six Indonesian human rights and grassroots
groups are opposing resumed military ties between Indonesia and the
United States, saying it would send signals that Washington is ready
to overlook Indonesia's alleged human rights abuses in East Timor.
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Philippine Muslim rebels free Malaysian hostage
July 15, 2000
JOLO, Philippines (AP) - Muslim rebels have released a Malaysian
who has been held in a Philippine jungle camp since being kidnapped
in April from a diving resort along with 20 other mostly foreign
hostages, officials said Friday.
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Chechen commander Basayev says resistance to Russia growing
July 15, 2000
KHASAVYURT, Russia (AP) - In an interview released Friday, top
Chechen guerrilla commander Shamil Basayev said that resistance to
Russian rule in Chechnya is growing.
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People and people in the News
July 15, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Yoko Ono has sued a Tokyo subway operator ov hours after
arriving, officials said Thursday.
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