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No peace if Palestinians insist on refugees
July 31, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - If the Palestinians insist that over a million Palestinian refugees must have the right to return to Israel, there will be no peace agreement, an Israeli Cabinet minister said Sunday.
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Mahendra Chaudhry arrives in Australia
July 31, 2000
SYDNEY (AP) - Deposed Fijian Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry arrived in Sydney on Sunday to discuss the crisis in his country with the Australian government.
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Shimon Peres resigns from Israeli government
July 31, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Shimon Peres resigned from the Israeli Cabinet Sunday in preparation for his race for president.
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U.N. troops in more south Lebanon border areas
July 31, 2000
BINT JBEIL, Lebanon (AP) - Peacekeepers hoisted the U.N. flag on the Lebanese-Israeli border Sunday as they took up positions following Lebanon's approval for deploying more of the international force.
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"Thanks for not making that a requirement"
July 31, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Sunday
paid a belated visit to the venue of a recent foreign ministers'
meeting in southern Japan, where officials named a 500-seat
auditorium in the city's new civic center after her.
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Queen Mother at 100:The witness of the century
July 31, 2000
LONDON (AP) - The Queen Mother Elizabeth, 100 years old this Friday, is not what she seems. Small, gray-haired ladies in flowered dresses are not usually national icons, but this one is as much a part of Britain's self-image as the Union Jack and the Rolling Stones.
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Aniston,'Pitt' the lady-killer's, last victim
July 31, 2000
MALIBU, California (AP) - After months of rumors, Brad Pitt and
Jennifer Aniston were married Saturday at a ceremony on an ocean
bluff.
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"US embassy from Telaviv to Jerusalem": Clinton
July 30, 2000
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - In an illustration of the centuries-old rivalry
over Jerusalem that derailed Camp David peace talks, Muslim
custodians of one of the city's sacred sites locked an entrance used
mostly by tourists and Jewish worshippers for several hours
Saturday.
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"Republicans, blur,blur,blur" says Clinton
July 30, 2000
BOSTON (AP) - Egged on by an appreciative audience of Democrats,
including a large complement of Kennedys, President Bill Clinton
mocked Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush's privileged
background and the political tactics of congressional Republicans.
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Albright's historic meeting with N Korea's FM
July 30, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright said Saturday that her historic meeting with North Korea's
foreign minister should help pull the communist state out of
international isolation.
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Kashmiri separatists welcome India's talks offer
July 30, 2000
SRINAGAR (AP) - Kashmir's top separatist leader welcomed
New Delhi's offer of unconditional talks Saturday and proposed
simultaneous discussions with India and Pakistan to solve the
knotted five decade dispute.
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Lebanon demands billions in compensation
July 30, 2000
BEIRUT (AP) - Lebanon is preparing a complaint against
Israel to be filed at the International Court of Justice seeking
compensation for the lengthy occupation of southern Lebanon,
according to a statement published Saturday.
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Rebels fire on Russian facilities in Chechnya
July 30, 2000
GROZNY, Russia (AP) - Chechen rebels attacked a Russian motorcade
leaving the capital Grozny Saturday for the Argun gorge in southern
Chechnya, damaging a truck and destroying a car.
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Gore challenges Bush on immigration
July 30, 2000
WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH, North Carolina (AP) - Vice President Al Gore,
courting Hispanic voters, challenged rival George W. Bush to join
him in backing a Democratic proposal to expand immigration rights
for hundreds of thousands of Central Americans.
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Three
Civilians killed in Sri Lanka
July 30, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Suspected Tamil rebels threw handgrenades at policemen conducting security checks in the north,killing three civilians and wounding 10, the government
saidSaturday.
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Kuwait needs a 'Susan B Anthony'
July 30, 2000
KUWAIT (AP) - Five liberal lawmakers proposed a bill Saturday
that grants women the right to vote and run for office, hoping this
latest attempt will pass the all-male Parliament.
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One more white tiger dies in Indian zoo
July 30, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Another white tiger died at a zoo in
eastern India, where 12 other tigers have died of a bacterial
disease spread by flies, officials said Saturday.
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Albright and Paek hold "friendly" historic talks
July 29, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright held what she called "friendly" talks Friday with North
Korea's foreign minister in the highest-level meeting between the
two countries in a half-century of hostility.
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N Korea's minister jostled by media attention
July 29, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Leading his country's cautious move
toward diplomatic openness, North Korean Foreign Minister Paek Nam
Sun learned his first lesson this week about living in the outside
world - how to dodge the media.
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President swears in new Fijian government
July 29, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Amid tight security, Fiji's president swore in
a new government Friday, a nationalist Cabinet it is hoped will help
restore calm in the Pacific nation that has been in turmoil since a
May 19 coup.
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India says threat to multiethnic democracy in Fiji risks
regional security
July 29, 2000
BANGKOK, JULY 28 (UNB/AP) - India warned Friday that the overthrow
of a multiethnic elected government in Fiji had repercussions for
stability and democracy in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Indian army announces halt to offensives against Kashmir militants
July 29, 2000
SRINAGAR, India (AP) - The Indian army has suspended all
offensive operations against Islamic militants in Kashmir for the
first time in 11 years in response to a cease-fire by one of the
main guerrilla groups, the top general in the region said Friday.
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Top communist leader hospitalized in Indian capital
July 29, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Jyoti Basu, a veteran communist leader
and the top elected official of West Bengal state, was Friday
hospitalized after he complained of uneasiness at a party meeting in
the Indian capital, his party officials said.
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Fujimori's third term: protests at home, isolation abroad
July 29, 2000
LIMA,(AP) - President Alberto Fujimori defied raucous
protests at home and growing isolation abroad as he pushed ahead
with plans to be sworn in Friday, embarking on an unprecedented
third term after a tainted re-election victory.
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Prosecutor pledges swift criminal probe into Concorde crash
July 29, 2000
PARIS, (AP) - Air France affirmed Friday that its Concorde
supersonic jets would remained grounded until further notice as the
company prepared to hold its own private tribute to the crew and
victims of the crash that killed 113 people.
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Simpson needs the Web to persuade people he's not a killer
July 29, 2000
LOS ANGELES,(AP) - Although O.J. Simpson says he's not much of an
Internet user, he embraced the technology to answer questions from
those curious enough about his sensational murder trial to pay dlrs
9.95 apiece for the opportunity.
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Black box reveals black and bleak moments
July 28, 2000
PARIS (AP) - French investigators finished decoding the second black box Thursday on the Concorde supersonic jet that crashed and
killed 113 people, but it could take up to three days to complete
the analysis of the fatal flight, the French Transport Ministry
said.
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Hard
Luck George Speight
July 28, 2000
SUVA (AP) - A violent military crackdown on rebel supporters and the arrest of Fiji's coup leader George Speight triggered reprisals Thursday including the kidnapping of two New Zealand civilian pilots.
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"We shall overcome someday"
July 28, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israelis and Palestinians were resuming contacts, even as intriguing details emerged Thursday about
proposals made at the failed Camp David summit on which the negotiators could build as they work to salvage the peace process.
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Autocrat purports to be democrat
July 28, 2000
BELGRADE (AP) - Slobodan Milosevic Thursday scheduled Yugoslavia's general elections for September 24, state Tanjug news agency reported, a major test of the president's strength after last
year's NATO bombing campaign.
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North Korea: 11th member of ASEAN
July 28, 2000
BANGKOK(AP) - After decades of international isolation, North Korea was inducted Thursday into Asia's leading security forum amid hopes its opening up to the world can ease tensions in the region.
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These things never happened then…
July 28, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - The number of contract killings committed in Russia so far this year is slightly down from the same period in 1999, but
police still fail to solve most of them, a police official said Thursday.
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… Nor did these things
July 28, 2000
ROME (AP) - Severe drought, unemployment and falling agricultural
production threaten Tajikistan with a serious food crisis, two U.N.
agencies, reported Thursday.
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Eleven killed in political clash in West Bengal
July 28, 2000
CALCUTTA (AP) - Communists clashed with supporters of a rival political group with spears and swords in an eastern Indian state Thursday, killing at least 11 people, a government official
said.
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Police to monitor activities in Malaysian mosques
July 28, 2000
KUALA LUMPUR (AP) - Policemen are being deployed at mosques in Malaysia to monitor sermons and act against those who try to incite people, a senior government official said Thursday.
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Crossing fingers didn't do: lets kiss good-bye
July 27, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - The collapse of the Camp David summit leaves Israel and the Palestinians facing a round of tough new decisions about when - or whether - to return to the bargaining table.
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Speight’s arrest made a clean head of it
July 27, 2000
Suba, Fiji (AP) Fiji coup leader George Speight, who stormed Parliament in May and took most of the cabinet hostage, was arrested Wednesday after an apparent shootout with the military.
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Tragic and fatal nosedive of 'concord'
July 27, 2000
GONESSE, France (AP) - The Air France supersonic Concorde plane
that crashed and killed 113 people during takeoff had been delayed
for last-minute maintenance on one of its engines, Air France said
Wednesday.
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East Asia pushes forward fledgling economic bloc
July 27, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Foreign ministers from the Association
of Southeast Asian Nations plus Japan, China and South Korea were
holding their first ever formal joint meeting Wednesday, pushing
forward plans for an East Asian economic bloc.
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Talking in the 'universal language'
July 27, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - If music is the universal language and money talks, Democrats hope combining the two will produce volumes of fresh donations this fall that can be spent directly on their political candidates.
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Embalmed Ho Chi Minh receives 22m visitors
July 27, 2000
HANOI (AP) - Nearly 22 million people, including 849,000
foreigners, have visited the mausoleum holding the embalmed body of
Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh over the last 25 years,
an official said Wednesday.
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India bans employees having child servants
July 27, 2000
New Delhi (AP) - India's government has banned its
employees from employing children under 14 as servants, the National
Human Rights Commission announced Wednesday.
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Iraqi deputy prime minister in Moscow
July 27, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz lashed out
against the United States on Wednesday, saying that the U.S.-backed
effort to prosecute Iraqi leaders on war crimes charges was
"blackmail."
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Fundamentalist politician’s fanatical cartoon
July 26, 2000
BOMBAY (AP) - A judge dismissed charges of incitement against a powerful Hindu supremacist politician Tuesday. His supporters, who had threatened to bloody the streets, instead tossed fireworks in celebration.
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It’s official: Republican ticket ‘Bush-Cheney’
July 26, 2000
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - After a three-month search headed by former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney, Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush found himself a running mate - ending where he started, with Cheney.
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Decade’s old missile explosion in Pakistan
July 26, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - A missile, which apparently had been buried for years, exploded on Tuesday when it was struck by a city worker who was planting trees.
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Has keeping fingers crossed brought good luck?
July 26, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - Offering a glimmer of hope after two grueling weeks of Mideast peace talks at Camp David, the White House indicated that Israel and the Palestinians could be making "some" progress toward resolving their bitter disputes.
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Leaked nuclear reactor shut down today
July 26, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - A reactor at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan was shut down for a suspected fuel leak Tuesday, two days after a small amount of radioactive water spilled at another plant nearby.
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Fiji: A state in a state of limbo
July 26, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Talks Tuesday between Fiji coup leader George Speight and President Ratu Josefa Iloilo failed to break a deadlock in the Pacific nation's political crisis, leaving it without a formal government.
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ASEAN firesquad troika proposal watered down
July 26, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Plans for an Association of Southeast Asian Nations diplomatic fire squad to react faster to regional crises hit a brick wall Tuesday after the 10 states disagreed over how much power it should have.
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Guests welcoming the host at his own home
July 25, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland (AP) - Plunging into talks immediately upon returning to Camp David, President Bill Clinton is weighing whether there was potential for a peace accord to be struck at the Mideast summit.
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North Korea to revamp image at ASEAN meeting
July 25, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Judging by the schedule of its foreign
minister at a regional security forum, North Korea seemed ready
Monday to revamp its image, as one of the world's most isolated,
unpredictable regimes.
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G-8: The sidekick of Mideast summit
July 25, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - It was the highest-profile summit of the year, with the leaders of the world's richest and most powerful nations tackling the globe's most pressing problems.
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Russian media's obsessive praise for Putin
July 25, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - President Vladimir Putin's behavior persuaded the
Group of Seven to treat Russia as an equal at this weekend's summit,
the country's media said Monday - celebrating a major feat for a
nation tormented by its fall from a superpower to the West's poor
cousin.
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Iran loses most celebrated contemporary poet
July 25, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - Celebrated Iranian poet Ahmad Shamlou, who
endured prison and self-imposed exile in pursuit of greater freedom,
has died after battling severe diabetes.
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Radioactive leakage at nuclear power plant
July 25, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - A small mount of radioactive water that leaked at a nuclear power plant in northeastern Japan stayed within the facility and did not escape outside, the plant's operator said Monday.
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King Mohammed VI's new, modern style
July 25, 2000
RABAT (AP) - In just a year on the throne, King Mohammed
VI has imposed his authority in Morocco even while taking the first
steps toward liberalization after the 38-year rule of his late
father Hassan II.
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26th summit of 'Group of Eight' concludes
July 24, 2000
NAGO (AP) - The Group of Eight industrial nations ended
their 26th summit on Sunday by saying the world economy is reaching
unprecedented levels of prosperity but that it must be shared with
the Third World by relieving some of its debts.
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The guests waiting for the host to return
July 24, 2000
THURMONT, Maryland(AP) - President Bill Clinton says Mideast negotiators "have not wasted their time" while he attended the annual Group of Eight summit in Japan, but he declined to say whether the Israelis and Palestinians had come any closer toward resolving their differences.
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Germany wants poor Russia to join richest 7
July 24, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - Russia should be completely integrated into
the Group of Seven top industrialized countries, German Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder said Sunday.
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10-member ASEAN meeting begins today
July 24, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - North Korea's attendance at a regional
security forum here this week, a major step toward breaking decades
of isolation, will likely grab the headlines, but its hosts will
also be grappling with their own issues of cooperation and openness.
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Cubans'41-year-old fidelity to Fidel Castro
July 24, 2000
HAVANA (AP) - A large march along Havana's coastal highway will
be held this week to protest the U.S. trade embargo and celebrate
the start of the revolution that brought Fidel Castro to power 41
years ago, the official government newspaper said Saturday.
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Putin wants to put in his e-mail to leaders
July 24, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin made a strong showing at his first appearance at the exclusive club of the world's richest nations.
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Searching and running for 'running mate'
July 24, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Former Sen. John Danforth resurfaced as a Republican vice presidential candidate, joining former Defense
Secretary Dick Cheney on George W. Bush's short list. Cheney is the leading candidate, a highly placed Republican official said as the Texas governor neared his decision.
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Returnee from Bangladesh Schiffer bugged
July 24, 2000
MADRID (AP) - Police arrested a fugitive who knocked on the door of supermodel Claudia Schiffer's summer home with a large
bouquet of flowers, according to media reports Sunday.
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Torrential rains kill 8, thousands homeless
July 24, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - Daylong torrential rains caused floods
and landslides, killing eight people, injuring three and forcing
thousands to flee their homes, government officials said Sunday.
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Summit supposed to bring peace, brings sigh!
July 23, 2000
BAQAA CAMP, Jordan (AP) - Latifa Awad sighed as she glanced at a
photo of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on the shabby wall of her
living room.
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Nawaz Sharif to serve 14 years in gaol
July 23, 2000
ATTOCK FORT, Pakistan (AP) - An anti-corruption court sentenced
deposed premier Nawaz Sharif on Saturday to 14 years in jail on a
charge of tax evasion and disqualified him from politics for 21
years.
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5 others likely to be released soon
July 23, 2000
ZAMBOANGA, Philippines (AP) - Three Malaysians and two Filipinos
being held hostage by Philippine Muslim rebels are likely to be
released soon, government negotiators said Saturday.
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The razzmatazz and hoopla at G-8!!!
July 23, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - Along the bayside, dancers in bright robes
limbered up. Musicians plucked at three-stringed Okinawan guitars.
The sun filtered through clouds in the distance.
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Dick Cheney may run with Bush
July 23, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Turning to a respected Washington insider in the final days of his search, U.S. presidential candidate George W. Bush is seriously considering former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney
as his running mate, two highly placed Republican Party officials say.
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5 Latvian plane crew released in West Bengal
July 23, 2000
CALCUTTA (AP) - Five crew members of a Latvian plane who
were sentenced to life imprisonment in January in a sensational arms
drop case were freed Saturday following pressure from the Russian
government.
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India and China to clarify disputed border
July 23, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - India and China on Saturday agreed to
expedite demarcation of their land border that remains disputed
since their 1962 war.
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Hijacking threat force Indian plane to land
July 23, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - An Indian Airlines jet made an
unscheduled landing in a central Indian town following a report that
four persons might hijack the plane when it was flying from Bombay,
officials said.
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Idiosyncrasies
at G-8 : Protection from “Habu”
July 23, 2000
NAGO,
Okinawa (AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton began to take his
farewell bows on the world stage Saturday, telling his colleagues,
"This is it."
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G8 leaders seek to answer critics of globalization
July 22, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - The world's major industrial countries
opened their annual economic summit on Friday, hoping to provide a
decisive rebuttal to critics of globalization by producing specific
programs aimed at bridging the yawning gap between the world's rich
and poor.
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Greenpeace activists arrested in Okinawa during summit
July 22, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - Four Greenpeace activists were arrested
Friday when they entered Nago harbor aboard the Rainbow Warrior ship
and tried to deliver a statement to world leaders during their
annual summit.
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NGOs urge debt relief, medical assistance to poor nations
July 22, 2000
NAGO, Okinawa (AP) - Concrete actions, not empty words, are
needed from rich countries to help poor ones overcome health
emergencies and ruinous debts, leading non-governmental
organizations said Friday.
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North Korea joins China in opposing a U.S. missile shield
July 22, 2000
NAGO (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin headed into the Group of Eight summit on Okinawa with two more allies in his opposition to America's proposed antimissile shield: China and North Korea.
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Albright takes over for
Clinton
July 22, 2000
THURMONT (AP) - The Mideast summit, resurrected only hours after its reported demise, was moving forward with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright stepping in for the traveling President Bill Clinton.
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At least 21 dead in clashes between Colombia rebels and militias
July 22, 2000
BOGOTA (AP) - Clashes between leftist rebels and rival
militias left at least 21 people dead on Thursday, most of them
rightist paramilitary fighters, local officials and clergy reported.
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