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Receding floods leave behind disease and death
August 14, 2000
GAUHATI (AP) - Flood waters began receding in northeastern
India Saturday, leaving a trail of disease and death, officials
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Wont September 13, be that golden date?
August 14, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - Egypt's president said Sunday that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat may put off plans to declare an independent Palestinian state on Sept. 13, the deadline for a final
Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement.
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Kashmir: Flares up again and again
August 14, 2000
JAMMU (AP) - In stepped up violence ahead of India's Independence Day, two landmines exploded under buses carrying paramilitary troops in Kashmir on Sunday, killing six soldiers and injuring at least 30 others, police said.
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North Korea ready to open ties with U.S.
August 14, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Il said he is ready to open ties with the United States as soon as the latter removes his country from a list of nations that sponsor terrorism, South Korea's state Yonhap news agency said Sunday.
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Japan: A Grave Situation
August 14, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Every August, Japan's cemeteries and graveyards come
alive during the Festival of the Dead, a time when ancestors who
have passed into the other world are believed to return for a brief
visit.
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News analysis: Clinton’s tough assignment ahead
August 14, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - For a president who loves to be the center of
attention, Bill Clinton has a tough assignment at the Democratic
convention.
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Though part of same world they are worlds apart
August 14, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - They are both young and slight, with long brown
hair tied back into practical ponytails. They dote on their baby
daughters and wonder how they'll balance motherhood with career.
They love vacations abroad, and wish Jerusalem had better movie
theaters.
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Hard-line judge orders reformist book removed
August 14, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - A hard-line judge has banned the sale of a
book that implicates former government officials in the 1998 murders
of five dissidents, the author's wife and publisher said Saturday.
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Arafat and Peres visit Norway
August 13, 2000
OSLO (AP) - After a day of anticipation and delays,
Israel's elder statesman Shimon Peres and Palestinian leader Yasser
Arafat canceled plans to meet Friday in Norway but sounded
optimistic about the peace process.
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Clinton does Hollywood, is he stealing the show?
August 13, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - President Bill Clinton on Friday shrugged off talk that he's stealing the limelight from Al Gore with a weekend
filled with Hollywood-style fund-raisers, parties and tributes just before the Democratic National Convention begins on Monday.
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Poet and editor Bei Ling arrested in China
August 13, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - Beijing police seized 2,000 copies of an
independent literary journal and detained its editor, poet Bei Ling,
a rights group and a friend said Saturday.
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Forgotten prisoner returns after 5 decades
August 13, 2000
BUDAPEST (AP) - After five decades in a Russian mental
hospital, an elderly Hungarian has returned to his homeland, which
he had not seen since he was shipped off to the Russian front in
World War II.
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Hats off to Bill for half of life with Hillary
August 13, 2000
BURBANK, California (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton stopped in at "The Tonight Show" on Friday and got a laugh with a little help from her daughter.
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Norway opens palace to public after 80 years
August 13, 2000
OSLO (AP) - Norway's royal palace in downtown Oslo is
open for public tours for the first time since 1920.
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Loretta Young dies of ovarian cancer at 87
August 13, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Loretta Young, the elegant beauty whose acting
career extended from silent movies to television and included an
Academy Award for best actress in "The Farmer's Daughter," died
Saturday of ovarian cancer, her longtime agent and friend Norman
Brokaw said. She was 87.
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Ross Perot: No longer, boss ‘Prospero’!
August 13, 2000
LONG BEACH, California (AP) - Reform Party presidential candidate
Pat Buchanan introduced Ezola Foster, a black Los Angeles teacher
and conservative political activist, as his running mate.
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Det. Henry Tibbett creator Patricia Moyes dies
August 13, 2000
CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) - Murder mystery
writer Patricia Moyes, who published over 40 books in a writing
career that spanned four decades, has died in the British Virgin
Islands, police said. She was 77.
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Renegade militant organizes strike in Kashmir
August 12, 2000
SRINAGAR (AP) - Supporters of a renegade militant on
Friday attacked vehicles and forced people to stay indoors as they
called a two-day general strike to protest Thursday's car bomb
explosion by a pro-Pakistan guerrilla group that killed at least 11
people and wounded 19 others.
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Taiwan's allies and China clash over U.N. seat for Taiwan
August 12, 2000
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Taiwan's allies on Thursday called for the
economically powerful island to join the United Nations, but China
insisted that Taiwan is one of its provinces and not eligible to be
a U.N. member.
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Militia gang kills U.N. peacekeeper in East Timor
August 12, 2000
DILI (AP) - A Nepalese U.N. peacekeeper died late
Thursday from a gunshot wound inflicted by a suspected
anti-independence militia group in East Timor, a U.N. spokesman
said. Three other Nepalese peacekeepers and a civilian were injured.
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If Hillary Clinton elected in New York, doubts will be erased, U.S. president says
August 12, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton lavished praise on
his wife for pursuing a Senate seat from New York and promised that
if she is elected, doubtful New Yorkers "will never have another
question" about her qualifications.
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Federal troops on alert in India's northeast ahead of Independence Day
August 12, 2000
GAUHATI, India (AP) - Federal troops went on alert Friday fearing
guerrilla attacks on trains, oil installations and bridges in remote
northeast during India's Independence Day celebrations next week,
officials said.
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Sri Lanka's Tamil rebels acquire surface-to-air missiles
August 12, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - The surface-to-air missiles fired by
Tamil Tiger rebels on the air force MiG-27 fighter aircraft earlier
this week could have been acquired from the Taliban in Afghanistan,
military officers said Friday.
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Chavez meeting with Saddam breaks its isolation, annoys U.S.
August 12, 2000
BAGHDAD (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez left Iraq
on Friday after a meeting with Saddam Hussein that raised U.S.
concern other leaders will give the Iraqi president credibility that
Washington insists he doesn't deserve.
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Prime Minister mom quits for President daughter
August 11, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Sirimavo Bandaranaike, the world's first woman prime minister, retired Thursday at 84 to allow her embattled daughter, the president, to reorganize the Cabinet ahead of elections.
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Minister resigns after Megawati takes charge
August 11, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - Indonesia's pro-democracy government was thrown into further turmoil Thursday when the minister charged with rescuing the ailing economy quit.
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Schmoozing, backslapping, nostalgia about the Boss
August 11, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Days before Vice President Al Gore arrives at
the Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, his boss will be
in the city basking in the warm and wealthy embrace of Hollywood
notables and loyal Democrats.
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Barak names Ben-Ami temporary Foreign Minister
August 11, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak will appoint
negotiator Shlomo Ben-Ami as acting Foreign Minister, an official
close to Barak said Thursday, who will be handed the dubious task of
working out a final peace deal with the Palestinians.
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Mount Oyama erupts for 4th time in a month
August 11, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - A volcano on an island off Tokyo erupted Thursday,
belching black ash into the sky but causing no immediate injuries or
damage, a local observatory said.
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Mid-air collision of 2 small planes
August 11, 2000
BURLINGTON TOWNSHIP, New Jersey (AP) - Two small planes collided
over a neighborhood in southeast New Jersey, killing at least 11
people and sending part of the wreckage plunging onto a house,
setting it on fire.
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'Robomarine's and 'RoboGI's: not Robocops
August 11, 2000
FORT BRAGG, North Carolina (AP) - It is designed to make the 21st
century U.S. soldier a more effective instrument of war, a veritable
cyborg able to communicate with more speed and efficiency.
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"British boys really suck"
August 11, 2000
LONDON (AP) - The 15-year-old daughter of the U.S. ambassador to
Britain proved anything but diplomatic in a searing indictment of
local lads written for this month's Tatler magazine.
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Bomb explosion results in a massive tragedy
August 10, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Two men were arrested Wednesday and were being questioned in connection with a bomb blast that ripped through one of Moscow's busiest areas, killing seven people and injuring scores of others, police said.
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Pinochet could be sued now!
August 10, 2000
SANTIAGO (AP) - Calling the Supreme Court ruling that
stripped Gen. Augusto Pinochet of his immunity unfair and
politically motivated, relatives and lawyers of the former dictator
vowed to fight in court "to demonstrate his innocence."
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Gore will make history like JFK
August 10, 2000
NASHVILLE (AP) - Vice President Al Gore introduced and
celebrated his Jewish running mate, Sen. Joseph Lieberman, likening
their White House quest to Catholic groundbreaker John F. Kennedy's
and declaring, "We will make history again."
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Could minorities get a fair trail in Kosovo?
August 10, 2000
PRISTINA (AP) - A Serb father and his two sons acquitted in the killing an ethnic Albanian in a shootout involving American soldiers were released Wednesday, international officials said.
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Ibsen and August Strindberg translator dies
August 10, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Michael Meyer, who prepared English translations of the plays of Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg, has died at age 79.
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Cleopatra gets sick in 21st century
August 10, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Elizabeth Taylor has been hospitalized for
treatment of pneumonia since last week, according to a spokesman.
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Anwar not gay & happy: Convicted for being Gay
August 9, 2000
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Anwar Ibrahim launched a
meteoric career from jail. Now, it looks like his once-bright political
future will finish there.
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Lieberman's liberal run as Gore's running mate
August 9, 2000
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) - Vice President Al Gore is launching a
historic bid for the U.S. presidency with Sen. Joseph Lieberman as
his running mate, hoping to surge into the Democratic Party
nominating convention with a burst of energy and the moral high
ground.
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Indonesian legislature to give Wahid a 2nd chance
August 9, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - After months of harsh criticism,
Indonesia's highest legislature appeared ready Tuesday to give
President Abdurrahman Wahid a second chance to reform the troubled
Southeast Asian country.
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Bangladesh, Bhutan and India face severe flood
August 9, 2000
GAUHATI (AP) - Torrential rains triggered flash floods and
mudslides in Bhutan, northeastern India and Bangladesh, leaving at
least 140 people dead and millions homeless, officials said Tuesday.
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West Bengal's communist party's demand
August 9, 2000
CALCUTTA (AP) - The Communist party that runs West
Bengal state on Tuesday demanded the expulsion of the U.S. consul general
and his Indian wife, saying they interfered in internal affairs by
collecting information on 11 laborers killed last month.
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Saddam hits Gulf neighbors: they sold their souls
August 9, 2000
BAGHDAD (AP) - President Saddam Hussein kept up
Iraq's drumbeat of criticism of its Gulf neighbors Tuesday, saying they
had "sold their souls" to the United States and Israel.
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Striking commercial actors march
August 9, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Actors on strike against the advertising
industry took their cause to the streets.
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After Assam & West Bengal, floods hit Bhutan
August 8, 2000
GAUHATI, India (AP) - After rendering nearly 2.5 million people
homeless in India's remote northeast, floods triggered by monsoon
rains have hit the neighboring kingdom of Bhutan, killing at least
180 people, officials and news reports said Monday.
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Sri Lanka Parliament debates new constitution
August 8, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - The governing alliance lost one
lawmaker and gained another as Parliament members switched sides
Monday during the debate over a new constitution aimed at ending the
Tamil separatist war.
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Gadbole of 'Passage to India' Guinness dies
August 8, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Actor Sir Alec Guinness, whose roles in a
66-year career ranged from Hamlet to Obi-Wan Kenobi in "Star
Wars," has died in a hospital, a spokeswoman said Monday. He was
86.
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Revolutionary Che Guevara didn't revolt for Vodka
August 8, 2000
LONDON (AP) - The photographer who immortalized revolutionary Che
Guevara on film in 1960 is suing an advertising agency for using the
image to promote vodka, The Guardian newspaper reported Monday.
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For whom the wedding bell tolls?
August 8, 2000
BAGHDAD (AP) - Nada Omran and Fathi Jabran chose to share
one of the most important days in their lives with dozens of
strangers. It was the only way the two government workers could
afford to get married.
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Big seizure of tiger skins and nails in India
August 8, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Wildlife agencies reported big seizures
of the skins of tigers, leopards and black bucks in India during the
past year, India's environment minister said Monday.
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Is he serial no.9454 or is he Hiram Karambo?
August 8, 2000
NAIROBI (AP) - Fingering his worn leather dog-tag, serial
No. 9454, and two brass buttons from his private's uniform, Hiram
Karumbo thinks back to his military service during World War II.
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The Mummy King: Live on Fox!
August 8, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - The tiny lecture hall was crowded, hot and
sticky. But few in the audience - even those who had to sit on the
floor - seemed discomforted as they gazed at slides of mummified
Egyptians and followed Zahi Hawass on his personal journey into
antiquity.
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