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Sri
Lanka's Tamil civil war escalates, 33 dead, 49 wounded
May
31, 2000
COLOMBO, MAY 30 (AP) - Tamil Tiger
rebels killed 15 police and soldiers while wounding 49 in two attacks
Tuesday as government troops retaliated by killing 18 rebels in the
northern battle zone,
a
top government spokesman said.
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Aristide's
party wins control of Haiti Senate, early returns show
May
31, 2000
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
MAY 30 (AP) - Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's
party has won control of Haiti's Senate, according to partial returns from
last week's election, released for the first time Monday.
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Bush,
Gore pause to salute military veterans
May
31, 2000
ELIZABETH, MAY 30 (AP) - Vice President
Al Gore recalled his Army tour in
Vietnam with nostalgia and some humility while George W. Bush looked ahead
to the future without mentioning his own military service as presidential
politics took a back seat to patriotism this Memorial Day.
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Five
Russian soldiers killed in clash with rebels
May
31, 2000
MOSCOW, MAY 30 (UNB/AP) - In the latest
setback to federal forces battling Chechen rebels, five Russian soldiers
were killed and seven wounded in a clash with Chechen militants, officials
said Tuesday.
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Britain
restores self-rule to Northern Ireland
May
31, 2000
BELFAST, MAY 30 (AP) - Britain
transferred governing authority back to
Northern Ireland at midnight Monday offering new hope for peace to the
divided province.
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Five
policemen killed, 20 wounded in Claymore mine attack in Sri Lanka
May
31, 2000
COLOMBO, MAY 30 (UNB/AP) - A Claymore
mine exploded in the government-held town of Vavuniya on Tuesday, killing
five policemen and wounding 20 others, according to a police officer and a
hospital
nurse.
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44
dead in new religious violence in Indonesia's Malukus
May
31, 2000
JAKARTA, MAY 30 (AP) - At least 44
people were killed in an armed raid on
a mostly Christian village in the eastern Indonesian province of North
Maluku, an army chief said Tuesday.
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Relative
of WWII soldier returns flag to family of dead Japanese soldier
May
31, 2000
CHICAGO, MAY 30 (AP) - A flag that a
Japanese soldier took with him to fight
World War II is being returned to his family more than a half century
after he was killed in one of the bloodiest battles of the
war.
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Japan-Growing
Old With long lives but few babies, Japan world's fastest graying country
May
31, 2000
TOKYO, MAY 30 (UNB/AP) - Japan will
have a higher percentage of people over the age of 65 within five years if
current trends toward longer life spans
and record low birth rates continue, the government announced Tuesday.
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Today
In History Monday, June 5
May
31, 2000
UNDATED, MAY 30 (AP) - Today is Monday,
June 5, the 157th day of 2000. There are 209 days left in the year.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil war spills to Sea
May
30, 2000
COLOMBO, MAY 29 (AP) - Sri Lanka's war spilled into the sea for
the first time in six weeks, with the navy destroying rebel boats
ferrying arms and ammunition to the guerrillas in the north, the
government said Monday.
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Former president Suharto placed under house
arrest
May
30, 2000
JAKARTA,
MAY 29 (AP) - After months of stalling, Indonesian prosecutor's placed
disgraced ex-President Suharto under house arrest Monday and repeated
their promise that the former dictator will stand trial within the next
two months.
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Hoping to end crisis, Fiji's military takes
control
May
30, 2000
SUVA,
MAY 29 (AP) - Fiji's military commander said Monday night he had imposed
martial law to bring stability to the nation that has been in crisis since
rebels took the government hostage on May 19.
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Brother says Philippine hijacker wanted to be
a skydiver
May
30, 2000
MANILA,
MAY 29 (AP) - The man who hijacked a Philippine Airlines
jet and died after parachuting out of the plane with a homemade parachute
had dreamed of becoming a skydiver, his brother said Monday.
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Peru's
Fujimori favored for third term, opponents stage peaceful outporing
May
30, 2000
LIMA,
MAY 29 (AP) - Alberto Fujimori appeared headed for a third term as Peru's
president, with a poll projection giving him a resounding triumph in a
run-off election questioned by foreign observers and boycotted by his
opponent.
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Sierra
Leone hostages set free after weeks of captivity
May
30, 2000
FREETOWN,
MAY 29 (AP) - Sierra Leone's hostage crisis appeared to be over, with what
was believed to be the last of about 500 U.N. hostages returning to the
capital, bedraggled but safe after weeks in the clutches of this West
African country's brutal rebels.
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Mahathir
warns against oil oligopolies
May
30, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR, MAY 29 (AP) - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Monday that
mergers among the world's petroleum giants were creating oil oligopolies
which threatened to "gobble up" small national oil companies.
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Russia's
President Putin signs nuclear test ban treaty
May
29, 2000
MOSCOW,
MAY 28 (AP) - President Vladimir Putin has signed the the Comprehensive
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, the Kremlin press service said Sunday.
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Kashmir
solution key to peace in South Asia: Musharraf
May
29, 2000
ISLAMABAD,
MAY 28 (AP) - Marking the second anniversary of Pakistan's
nuclear tests Sunday, Army Chief Gen. Pervez Musharraf said South Asian
neighbors, India and Pakistan, have to settle the protracted Kashmir
dispute to remove "the threat of a nuclear holocaust."
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Indian
president leaves for China visit
May
29, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 28 (AP) - Indian President Kocheril Raman Narayanan left for
China Sunday to hold talks aimed at boosting bilateral economic
cooperation and mending uneasy ties between the Asian giants.
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Astronauts
clean up shuttle for weekend ride home
May
29, 2000
CAPE
CANAVERAL, Florida, MAY 28 (AP) - Flying solo once more, space shuttle
Atlantis' stronauts cleaned up Saturday from all their repair work at the
international space station, and packed for the ride
home.
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Iran's
first reformist-dominated parliament in two decades opens
May
28, 2000
TEHRAN,
MAY 27 (AP) - Iran's new parliament opened Saturday, dominated
for the first time by reformists who support President Mohammad Khatami's
programs to loosen the strict Islamic rules kept in place by hard-line
clergy who still wield enormous power.
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Fiji's
president fires country's democratically elected government
May
28, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji, MAY 27 (AP) - Fiji's president announced Saturday that he has fired
the country's democratically elected government, which is being held
hostage by an armed gang, and will appoint a new caretaker administration.
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Three
ministers inducted into Indian Cabinet
May
28, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 27 (AP) - Three ministers were inducted into the Cabinet
of Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee Saturday to fill in vacancies that
arose because of resignations.
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Pakistan:
Shops shut down to avoid tax survey
May
28, 2000
ISLAMABAD,
MAY 27 (AP) - Many businesses in Pakistan shut down Saturday
to protest attempts by the army-led government to document their
businesses, their inventories and get them to pay taxes.
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Sri
Lanka's Tamil Tigers begin 12-hour cease-fire
May
28, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 27 (AP) - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels began a 12-hour
cease-fire Saturday to allow civilians trapped in battle zones in the
northern Jaffna peninsula to escape to safety, sources
close
to the rebels said.
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Israel
settles into new border with Lebanon
May
27, 2000
METULLA,
Israel, MAY 26 (AP) - A farmer tended trees by the border with a
pistol in his belt, soldiers moved cement
blocks and barbed wire in front of
roads leading north, and Prime Minister Ehud Barak told Israelis
to get Lebanon out of their system.
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SLA
militiamen feel betrayed by Israel
May
27, 2000
MARJAYOUN,
MAY 26 (AP) - Like many of his comrades, Jiryis Faris feels
betrayed by Israel's sudden withdrawal that left him and other pro-Israeli
militiamen at the mercy of their guerrilla enemies and a government
that considers them traitors.
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First
independent account of embattled Jaffna
May
27, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 26 (AP) - Clutching straw mats, plastic buckets and kerosene
stoves, some 150,000 people have fled Sri Lanka's war-torn Jaffna
peninsula since the fighting escalated in March, aid workers say,
providing the first independent eyewitness accounts of life in the
embattled north.
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Tension
grows as chiefs meet again to seek coup resolution
May
25, 2000
SUVA,
MAY 24 (AP) - Looting and arson of ethnic Indian Fijian property
were reported Wednesday, as 40 tribal chiefs met for a second day in an
attempt to find a peaceful solution to country's six-day government
hostage crisis.
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Sindh
governor resigns in surprise move
May
25, 2000
KARACHI,
MAY 24 (AP) - In a surprise
move the governor of Pakistan's
southern Sindh province, Azim Daudpota, resigned on Wednesday.
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Russia
develops new rocket for launching satellites, official says
May
25, 2000
MOSCOW,
MAY 24 (AP) - A Russian company is developing rocket technology to cheaply
launch satellites into space from a transport plane flying high above the
Earth, an official said Wednesday.
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Tamils
urged to build bomb shelters as Sri Lanka resumes air raids
May
24, 2000
NEW
DELHI, MAY 23 (AP) - Sri Lankan warplanes resumed bombing missions Tuesday
to hold back the advance by Tamil Tiger rebels against Jaffna City,
military officers said, a day after the military claimed its first major
battlefield success in weeks.
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Japan's
opposition to submit no-confidence motion
May
24, 2000
TOKYO,
MAY 23 (AP) - The opposition agreed Tuesday to submit a no-confidence motion
in Parliament against Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori over his statement that
Japan is a "divine" nation.
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Asian
economies recover, but still vulnerable to hot money
May
23, 2000
BANGKOK,
MAY 22 (AP) - Though Asian economies are recovering from
devastating crisis, they remain vulnerable to the fickleness of
fast-moving hot money and downturn in the United States or Japan, U.N.
officials said Monday.
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Fiji
president says government may change, despite failed coup
May
23, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji, MAY 22 (AP) - Fiji's president tried to draw armed rebels occupying
Parliament closer to peaceful surrender Monday, saying the current
government might be replaced even if the coup attempt fails.
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South
Korean court impounds former president's properties
May
23, 2000
SEOUL,
MAY 22 (AP) - Prosecutors trying to collect fines imposed
on former President Chun Doo-hwan for corruption
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Haitians
vote for new government after violent campaign
May
23, 2000
PORT-AU-PRINCE,
Haiti, MAY 22 (AP) - Haitians voted peacefully in massive numbers
for the first time in years - a cry for democracy by a people defying
fears of violence at the polls and a history of
persecution.
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Government
expects Indonesian economy to grow 4 percent this year
May
23, 2000
JAKARTA,
MAY 22 (AP) - The Indonesian economy should grow by around 4 percent this
year, senior Economics Minister Kwik Kian Gie said Monday.
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Asian
economies recover, but still vulnerable to hot money
May
23, 2000
BANGKOK,
MAY 22 (AP) - Though Asian economies are recovering from
devastating crisis, they remain vulnerable to the fickleness of
fast-moving hot money and downturn in the United States or Japan, U.N.
officials said Monday.
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Turnout
is key in Italian vote on referendums
May
22, 2000
ROME,
MAY 21 (AP) - In a vote where turnout was key, Italians cast ballots on
Sunday to say yes or no to seven referendums, including one calling for
reform of an electoral system blamed for decades of chronic
government instability.
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Beijing
warns Taiwan's new president to accept "one China"
May
22, 2000
BEIJING,
MAY 21 (AP) - China warned Taiwan's new president Sunday that his calls
for peace between the two rivals could never be realized without an
acknowledgment that the island is part of Chinese erritory.
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Qatari
minister discusses normalization with Iraq
May
22, 2000
CAIRO,
MAY 21 (AP) - Proposals for an Arab reconciliation with Iraq were the main
issue in Sunday's talks between Qatar's foreign minister
and Egypt's president.
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British
PM seeks solace in church after baby's birth
May
22, 2000
LONDON,
MAY 21 (AP) - A tired-looking Prime Minister Tony Blair greeted
churchgoers after mass at Westminster Cathedral on Sunday and told them
both his wife and new baby Leo were doing "absolutely fine."
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China
plans to recover looted antiques from around the world
May
22, 2000
BEIJING,
MAY 21 (AP) - China plans to form a task force to try to recover as many
as a million valuable and sometimes looted Chinese cultural relics
collected by museums around the world, an official newspaper said Sunday.
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Coup
leaders in Fiji release some captive lawmakers
May
22, 2000
SUVA,
MAY 21 (AP) - Rebels holding Fiji's elected prime minister and
other government members hostage threatened Sunday to execute them unless
their demands are met, the president said.
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Lower-income
men face dim marriage prospects in Singapore
May
22, 2000
SINGAPORE,
MAY 21 (AP) - Singaporean men with low income and education face an uphill
battle in finding wives at home and abroad, a newspaper reported Sunday.
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