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Coal mine explosion in China: 48 bodies rescued

September 30, 2000 

  

SHANGHAI, (AP) - Rescuers dug by hand Friday to reach more than 100 trapped miners as the number of confirmed deaths from a coal mine explosion in southern China rose to 48.

 

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India to finalize defence deals with Russia

September 30, 2000 

  

New Delhi, (UNB) – Russian President Putin’s visit to India next week is likely to coincide finalisation of key defence deals to purchase sophisticated tanks and transfer of fighter aircraft.

 

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Evacuation speeds up as Vietnam flood death toll rises

September 30, 2000 

  

HANOI, (AP) - Authorities have stepped up evacuation of flood victims in the Mekong Delta as the death toll in Vietnam rose to 159 and waters showed only slight signs of receding, officials said Friday.

 

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Estrada offers amnesty to Muslim separatists

September 30, 2000 

  

MANILA, (AP) - President Joseph Estrada offered amnesty Friday to Muslim guerrillas in an effort to curtail a decades-old secessionist rebellion that has killed more than 120,000 people in the southern Philippines.

 

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German leaders clash in parliament

September 30, 2000 

  

BERLIN, (AP) - German leaders squabbled Friday about who made mistakes during and after the rush to reunification, turning parliament into a stage for partisan finger-pointing just days before the nation marks 10 years of unity.

 

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Palestinians killed and injured at Jerusalem

September 30, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM, (AP) - Firing rubber bullets, Israeli riot police broke into a sacred walled compound in Jerusalem after Muslim noon prayers Friday to disperse hundreds of Palestinian stone throwers. Three Palestinians were killed and at least 96 injured in the bloodiest clash in four years at the bitterly contested shrine.

 

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Amnesty International condemns treatment of women in Saudi Arabia

September 30, 2000 

  

CAIRO, (AP) - Women in Saudi Arabia are accused of morality crimes more often than men and face additional obstacles in defending their virtue, according to a recent Amnesty International report on discrimination against women in the conservative kingdom.

 

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16 weapons netted in W Timor crackdown

September 30, 2000 

  

KUPANG, (AP) - Two days into a massive security crackdown against militia groups in West Timor, police said on Friday that they had netted only 16 weapons, all of which were voluntarily surrendered.

 

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Saudis to allow Yemeni planes to fly over

September 30, 2000 

  

SAN`A, Yemen, (AP) - A Yemeni aircraft bound for Iraq took off Friday after the Saudi government reversed its earlier refusal to let it overfly Saudi Arabia, a Yemeni official said.

 

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Thailand supports upcoming UN mission to Myanmar

September 30, 2000 

  

BANGKOK, (AP) - Thailand voiced support Friday for a United Nations mission to break the political deadlock inside Myanmar, warning the situation there could deteriorate and affect other countries in the region.

 

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"The older I get, the less I'm nervous"-Gore

September 30, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON, (AP) - A lot hinges on his performance in the coming presidential debates but Al Gore says that after all these years in politics, it's getting easier to take even the big moments in stride.

 

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Police arrest Iraqi who attempted to hijack plane

September 29, 2000 

  

AMMAN (AP) - An Iraqi man who made a halfhearted attempt to hijack a Jordanian plane has been arrested, Jordanian civil aviation said Thursday.

 

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Scores dead, missing in coal mine blast in China

September 29, 2000 

  

SHANGHAI (AP) - A gas explosion in a coal mine in southern China left as many as 161 miners dead or missing, officials said Thursday.

 

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Floods threaten West Bengal and Bangladesh

September 28, 2000 

  

CALCUTTA (AP) - Flood waters fed by late monsoon rains gushed over the banks of the Hooghly River, shoved aside sandbag barriers and inundated much of the 300-year-old city of Calcutta on Wednesday.

 

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South Africa and India sign defense agreement

September 28, 2000 

  

CAPE TOWN (AP) - South Africa and India agreed Wednedsay to cooperate on peacekeeping, counterterrorism and other defense-related areas.

 

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Russia chooses Norwegian firm to help retrieve submariners' remains

September 28, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will initial a contract with a Norwegian company on retrieving the remains of 118 sailors from the sunken nuclear submarine Kursk this week, a top government official said Wednesday.

 

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EU plans air traffic safety agency

September 28, 2000 

  

BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union's head office Wednesday revealed plans to create an aviation safety agency.

 

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UN urged to push for talks between factions in Afghanistan

September 28, 2000 

  

MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday urged the United Nations to push for talks between warring factions in Afghanistan, saying there was no military solution to the conflict.

 

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Radovan Karadzic proven guilty of atrocities

September 27, 2000 

  

NEW YORK (AP) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been ordered by a U.S. jury to pay dlrs 4.5 billion in damages for atrocities committed by his soldiers.

 

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France wants aircraft to fly to Iraq without UN authorization

September 27, 2000 

  

UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France proposed that aircraft be allowed to fly to Iraq with just a simple notification of the U.N. committee monitoring sanctions against Baghdad -- but the United States protested that the committee must authorize all flights.

 

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Koreas agree to work to end threat of war

September 27, 2000 

  

CHEJU (AP) - The defense ministers of South and North Korea, whose armies have faced off against each other for half a century, ended two days of talks Tuesday with a pledge to diminish the threat of war on their peninsula.

 

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Support rate for Mori low at 20 percent

September 27, 2000 

  

TOKYO (AP) - Public support for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's Cabinet remains low at 20 percent, a newspaper poll published Tuesday shows.

 

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Grand Dame of Thai classical dance dies

September 27, 2000 

  

BANGKOK (AP) - Paew Sanitwongsenee, the Grand Dame of Thai classical dance who learned her art under royal patronage and embellished it with foreign nuances during her European travels, has died. She was 96.

 

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Floods Kill 700 in South Asia

September 26, 2000 

  

CALCUTTA, India (AP) — Rescue crews used boats and military helicopters Monday to help some of the millions of people washed out of their homes by floods believed to have killed more than 700 in India and Bangladesh. Authorities were to trying to ferry victims to higher ground, but most remained marooned atop buildings. Air force helicopters were dropping food and water purification packets.

 

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Milosevic seeks runoff after vote

September 26, 2000 

  

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — Tens of thousands of jubilant opposition supporters celebrated Monday their apparent electoral victory over President Slobodan Milosevic, who was seeking to force a runoff despite calls to accept the end of his 13 years in power.

 

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Arafat, Barak pressured to meet

September 26, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Israel on Monday under U.S. pressure to come up with a permanent deal, but with little to show after two months of massaging the dealbreaker — Jerusalem.

 

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Talk shows become obligatory on campaign trail

September 26, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON, (AP) - First he kissed Oprah Winfrey's cheek. Then, in a style more flattering than imitating, George W. Bush strolled onto the set of Regis Philbin's morning talk show dressed exactly like the host - in a matching shirt-and-tie combination.

 

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Judge orders Pinochet medical tests

September 26, 2000 

  

SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — A judge on Monday ordered Gen. Augusto Pinochet to undergo medical tests to determine whether the former dictator is mentally fit to stand trial on human rights charges stemming from the killing of political dissidents during his 1973-1990 regime.

 

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Myanmar junta lashes out at Suu Kyi

September 26, 2000 

  

YANGON, (AP)- Myanmar's ruling junta on Monday lashed out at Aung San Suu Kyi and her Western supporters, saying the opposition leader's "stop me if you dare" campaign is hurting the government's goal to establish a new kind of democracy.

 

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Philippine military assault on Muslim rebels

September 26, 2000 

  

JOLO, (AP) - More than 36,000 villagers have fled their homes to escape a heavy military assault on Muslim rebels holding 17 hostages on a small southern Philippine island, more than twice the number earlier reported, officials said Monday.

 

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Twenty-four rebels killed in Sri Lanka's north

September 26, 2000 

  

COLOMBO, (AP)- Twenty-four Tamil rebels were killed and six soldiers were wounded in confrontations in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna Peninsula, the government said Monday.

 

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Opposition claiming Yugoslavia vote

September 25, 2000 

  

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) — After an election Sunday marked by a large turnout and allegations of fraud, Yugoslavia's once struggling opposition claimed victory and urged Slobodan Milosevic to peacefully quit power after 13 years of hardline rule.

 

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Barak ready for partial agreement

September 25, 2000 

  

JERUSALEM (AP) — Rolling back expectations of a final deal by next month, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he is prepared for a partial agreement with the Palestinians — a prospect the Palestinians said is out of the question.

 

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Presidential polls show tight race

September 25, 2000 

  

WASHINGTON (AP) — Al Gore and George W. Bush are locked in a close race in a national tracking poll out Saturday and several states thought to be swinging Gore's direction reflected an overall tightening of the race.

 

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Korean defense chiefs meet

September 25, 2000 

  

CHEJU, South Korea (AP) -- The defense ministers of South and North Korea held reconciliation talks Monday for the first time in five decades of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border.

 

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Another Cuban plane in distress

September 25, 2000 

  

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The co-pilot on a Cuban airliner with 76 passengers on board suffered a fatal heart attack after taking off from Bogota, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing, authorities said Sunday. 

 

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Spy's asylum bid riles inmate's dad

September 25, 2000 

  

LIMA, Peru (AP) — The father of an American woman jailed on terrorism charges expressed outrage Sunday that deposed spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos was allowed to flee to Panama while his daughter continues to languish in a Peruvian prison.

 

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Vatican looks to mend religion ties

September 25, 2000 

  

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Vatican officials sought to mend relations with other religions at an international ecumenical meeting here Sunday after straining their ties with claims of the primacy of the Roman Catholic church.

 

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