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Elian, no longer “Alien”
July 7, 2000
HAVANA (AP) - A shy but joyful Elian Gonzalez was seen riding his
bicycle in his hometown and splashing in a pool at a nearby resort
as state television aired some of the first images of the boy since
his return to Cuba a week ago.
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Blair’s blurred son!!
July 7, 2000
LONDON(AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair's 16-year-old son was
arrested after being found "drunk and incapable" in London's
Leicester Square, news reports said Thursday.
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What a miss!!!
July 7, 2000
BANGKOK(AP) - A speeding homemade rocket fired during
a traditional festival in northeastern Thailand approached a
passenger airplane as it came into land, airline officials said
Thursday.
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Nazi-slave labor fund bill passed
July 7, 2000
BERLIN (AP) - Parliament passed a bill Thursday setting up a 10
billion mark (dlrs 5 billion) fund for Nazi-era slave and forced
laborers, clearing the way for payments to the aging victims to
begin this year after some 18 months of negotiations.
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Death of Royal Bengal tigers
July 7, 2000
BHUBANESHWAR(AP) - Another Royal Bengal Tiger died on
Thursday at a zoo in eastern India, a day after nine tigers dropped
dead of sleeping sickness despite being injected with antibiotics, a
top state government official said.
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Ultimatum to shaven and skirted rebel
July 6, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Fiji's military on Wednesday stepped up the
pressure on rebels holding 27 hostages in Parliament, declaring an exclusive military zone around the area and offering amnesty to anyone who leaves within two days.
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‘Infidels’ fidelity in question indefinitely
July 6, 2000
ANKARA (AP) - An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a one-year prison sentence imposed on a former premier who challenged secular rule and called deputies "infidels," the Anatolia news agency said.
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Perennial clashes dominate Irish streets again
July 6, 2000
BELFAST (AP) - Police commanders and politicians appealed Wednesday for Protestant hard-liners to call off the street protests that have caused rioting, fear and destruction across Northern Ireland.
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Independence Day celebrated
July 6, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Thousands gathered on the National Mall
Tuesday, a day of festivities in the nation's capitol that included a parade, a concert-featuring singer Ray Charles and a fireworks show that lasted half an hour.
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Lawful marriage makes her ‘mother-in-law’
July 6, 2000
AKRON, Ohio (AP) - Joseph Pileggi thought he knew the woman he was marrying.
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Putin and Zemin preempt 5-nation summit
July 6, 2000
DUSHANBE (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and
Chinese President Jiang Zemin met behind closed doors at a Tajik government residence on Wednesday to discuss regional security ahead of a five-nation summit.
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Hostage crisis continues in Malaysia
July 6, 2000
SAUK (AP) - Members of a gang that raided two military
armories fought back a heavy security assault Wednesday and held on to at least three hostages in the jungles of northern Malaysia.
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Fox
wins over the tigers of Mexican politics
July
5, 2000
MEXICO
CITY (AP) - With a hug and a handshake, the last leader of Mexico's ruling
dynasty and the maverick rancher who will succeed him embarked on Mexico's
first peaceful transfer of power in modern history.
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Bush’s
campaign running without ‘running mate’
July
5, 2000
CRAWFORD,
Texas (AP) - The setting was
relaxed, the business serious Monday as George W. Bush scoured the
backgrounds of possible running mates and said he's giving equal
consideration to men and women.
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Is
Kuwait still in the 19th century?
July
5, 2000
KUWAIT
(AP) - Kuwait's highest tribunal on Tuesday refused to rule on four cases
that could have led to granting women the right to vote and run for
office.
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Nazi
monsters’ legend like Loch Ness monster
July
5, 2000
LAKE
TOPLITZ, Austria (AP) - In the cold waters of a pristineAlpine lake, an
American salvage crew is trying to solve some of the last mysteries of
World War II - what secrets or treasures did the Nazis hide here in the
chaotic, final days of the conflict.
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The
‘Soviets’ are back!
July
5, 2000
KIEV
(AP) - Ukrainian designers want to send the world's largest cargo
aircraft, built to transport the Soviet space shuttle, back into flight,
an official said Tuesday.
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Mori
appoints new cabinet in Japan
July
5, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - Japanese Parliament voted Tuesday to let Prime Minister Yoshiro
Mori keep his post, ensuring the continuation of his party's
public-spending policies to turn around the economy.
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Vintage
vessels gala on the 4th of July
July
5, 2000
NEW
YORK (AP) - The city's
picturesque harbor teemed with thousands of vessels, from oceangoing
schooners and destroyers to small, tiny speedboats in the run-up to a
Fourth of July nautical spectacular.
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Curfew
in Chechnya: shooting without warning
July
5, 2000
GUDERMES,
Russia (AP) - Russian forces imposed a curfew in Chechnya, threatening on
Tuesday that soldiers would fire without warning on any vehicles that
violated it.
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Aga
Khan III’s widow buried next to husband
July
5, 2000
ASWAN,
Egypt (AP) - The sheik labored up the steps leading to
the Aga Khan III's hilltop mausoleum to lay three wilted red roses on
his grave Tuesday, carrying out the wishes of
the late religious leader's widow even
on the day of her funeral.
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Bangla2000
Editorial
July
4, 2000
Greetings
on the occasion of the 4th of July
It’s
precisely two centuries and a quarter today since the people of the world
saw a new concept of government in the history of mankind.
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They kill their
women like clay pigeons
July
4, 2000
CAIRO
(AP) - Nora Ahmed was on her honeymoon when
her father cut off her head and paraded it down a dusty Cairo street
because she had married a man of whom he did not approve.
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Pakistan
disclaims Chinese help
July
4, 2000
ISLAMABAD
(AP) - Pakistan's Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar
on Monday dismissed U.S. intelligence reports that his country is getting
help from China to build missiles capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
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Aftershocks
continue to rattle Japanese island
July
4, 2000
TOKYO,
JULY 3 (AP) - Strong aftershocks were likely to continue for a week on
Japanese islands jolted by a powerful quake that killed one man, buckled
roads and demolished a shrine, officials said Sunday.
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Roadside
bomb goes off in Gaza
July
4, 2000
JERUSALEM,
JULY 3 (AP) - A roadside bomb went off near an Israeli patrol in
the Gaza Strip Monday and shots were fired towards the
patrol's soldiers, the army said.
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THIS DAY, THAT YEAR
July
4, 2000
UNDATED
(AP) - Today is Tuesday, July 4, the 186th day of 2000. There are 180 days
left in the year.
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3
main parties in Mexican election
July
3, 2000
UNDATED
(AP) - Glance at the main political parties in Mexico competing in Sunday's
election:
-Institutional
Revolutionary Party, or PRI: Formed by the government
in 1929 to maintain and transfer power peacefully, the PRI has held the
presidency ever since.
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Fighting
kills 40 in Sri Lanka
July
3, 2000
COLOMBO
(AP) - Fresh fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels
killed 30 guerrillas and nine soldiers in the island nation's north and
east, a government spokesman said Sunday.
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Pakistan
to buy Chinese F-7 warplanes
July
3, 2000
ISLAMABAD
(AP) - Military ruler Gen. Pervez Musharraf has said that Pakistan plans
to buy Chinese F-7 fighter planes to strengthen its air force, a Pakistani
newspaper reported Sunday.
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Success
of Chechen rebels’ hit-and-run strategy
July
3, 2000
GUDERMES,
Russia (AP) - Three Russian policemen were killed when their car drove
over a homemade land mine at the entrance to a shooting range in Chechnya,
officials said Sunday.
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“I
kept thinking it was like an earthquake hit”
July
3, 2000
MIDDLE
BASS ISLAND, Ohio (AP) - A concrete terrace loaded with tourists collapsed
at an island winery in Lake Erie, killing one person and injuring about
80, authorities said.
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Suspended
for stealing leftovers
July
3, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - Four of Queen Elizabeth II's footmen have been suspended from their
duties after allegations that they stole crates of champagne left over
from a royal birthday celebration, Buckingham Palace said Sunday.
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"Titanic" and "Braveheart" fall guy dies
July
3, 2000
LONDON(AP)
- British stuntman Terry Forrestal, a veteran of Hollywood blockbusters
like "Titanic" and "Braveheart," died in a
jumping accident in Norway on June 10, news reports said. He was 52.
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A
feature:-The diversified state ‘Bushy Texas’
July
3, 2000
AUSTIN,
Texas (AP) - Let's dispense with this right away: It's big. Really big.
But you already knew that.
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Arkansas
court committee seeks to strip Clinton of law license
July
2, 2000
LITTLE
ROCK, Arkansas, JULY 1 (AP) - In an unprecedented rebuke of a sitting
U.S. president, an Arkansas Supreme Court committee on Friday sued
President Bill Clinton to strip him of his law license, saying he was
dishonest during the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal and lacked "overall
fitness" to be a lawyer.
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Young
Fijians call for reconciliation and tolerance
July
2, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji, JULY 1 (AP) - A group of Fijian youths staged a day of fasting
and prayer Saturday to call for greater tolerance in the political
standoff that has seen the nation's Indian-led government
held
hostage for 43 days.
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China
tries Olympics to lure Taiwan to table
July
2, 2000
BEIJING,
JULY 1 (AP) - Having failed so far to coax rival Taiwan into talks, China
is trying to entice the island with the prospect of co-hosting the 2008
Olympic Games.
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Clinton
renews sanctions against Taliban
July
2, 2000
WASHINGTON,
JULY 1 (AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton renewed sanctions Friday
intended to punish the ruling Taliban in Afghanistan for refusing to hand
over suspected terrorist Osama bin Laden for trial.
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Ethnic war
in Sri
Lanka: Government's peace plan grounded
July
2, 2000
COLOMBO,
JULY 1 (AP) - A Norwegian peace initiative to end the 17-year-old civil
war has failed to take off with Tamil Tiger rebels out rightly rejecting
the government's autonomy offer.
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Mahathir
attacks Western media for biased reporting against Islam
July
2, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR, JULY 1 (AP) - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged Muslim nations
to cooperate by sharing news with each other rather than depending on
"corrupt" Western news organizations, a news report said.
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Eight
dead, three injured at rock festival in Denmark
July
2, 2000
COPENHAGEN,
JULY 1 (AP) - Fans surged toward the stage at a Pearl Jam concert, killing
at least eight people and injuring three others at one of Europe's largest
rock festivals, police said.
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Denmark & Sweden
to be linked after 7,000 years' separation
July
2, 2000
COPENHAGEN,
(AP) - The kingdoms of Sweden and Denmark were
to be formally linked Saturday, 7,000 years after glaciers cleaved
a waterway that divided the Scandinavian countries.
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Elian's
life will be 'normal,' but he will always be special
July
1, 2000
HAVANA, (AP) - Now that his American saga has drawn to a close, Elian
Gonzalez began a new chapter Thursday in his homeland, where officials
say they will work to provide the boy with as normal a life
as possible.
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Lawmakers
elect opposition leader as new prime minister
July
1, 2000
HONIARA,
Solomon Islands, (AP) - Lawmakers elected a new prime minister in
the Solomon Islands on Friday in a move observers hope will end months of
ethnic fighting.
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Prime
Minister expects consensus on CTBT signing by year end
July
1, 2000
NEW
DELHI, (AP) - Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said Friday
he expects to achieve a national consensus on India signing the
global nuclear test ban treaty by the year's end, a news agency reported.
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Israel:
U.N. land-for-peace resolution does not apply to West Bank,Gaza
July
1, 2000
JERUSALEM,
(AP) - Israel's attorney general has ruled that U.N. Security
Council resolutions stipulating Israel's withdrawal from war-won
lands do not mean that Israel must give up all of the West Bank,
Gaza Strip and east Jerusalem, prompting angry Palestinian protests
Friday.
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U.N.
wants talks on East Timor constitution to start in September
July
1, 2000
UNITED
NATIONS, (AP) - The top U.N. official in East Timor said Thursday
he expects grassroots consultations to begin in September on
the kind of government and constitution the people want when the territory
becomes independent possibly late next year.
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