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Speight triumphs with Ace of spades trump card
July 14, 2000
SIDNEY (AP) - Fiji's powerful Pacific neighbors
welcomed the release Thursday of deposed Prime Minister Mahendra
Chaudhry and 17 other hostages held by rebels. But they refused to
remove the threat of sanctions if Fiji does not return to democracy.
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Monica and Starr in starring role again
July 14, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Charles Bakaly III, the former independent counsel spokesman, is going on trial on charges he misled a judge about news leaks during the Monica Lewinsky investigation.
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Once corrupted oil sector now on fire
July 14, 2000
OVIRI-COURT, Nigeria (AP) - Officials pleaded with fearful
survivors of a deadly pipeline blast in southern Nigeria to come out
of hiding Thursday as firefighters doused burning pools of gasoline
for a fourth day.
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Heat twisted railroad track derails train
July 14, 2000
ANKARA (AP) - A passenger train partially derailed in western Turkey, injuring 15 people, a Turkish newspaper reported Thursday.
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''Avant garde vogue' back in France
July 14, 2000
PARIS(AP) - Haute couture lives! Fears of the death of this art are vanishing with classic and beautiful clothes by Yves Saint Laurent, and valiant efforts by younger newcomers, who actually sew the clothes themselves.
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'Two-way street' shouldn't be a 'dead alley'
July 13, 2000
THURMONT (AP) - In the same rustic setting where Israel
forged its first peace treaty with an Arab enemy, President Bill
Clinton brought together Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian
leader Yasser Arafat in a renewed quest for a lasting Mideast peace.
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Rebels free 9 hostages and 40 tourists
July 13, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Fijian rebels freed nine of the 27 hostages
they have been holding in Parliament for nearly two months on
Wednesday, raising hopes that the Pacific island nation's government
crisis was nearing an end.
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5.1-magnitude earthquake jolts Java
July 13, 2000
CIJENGKOL, Indonesia (AP) - Several people were injured and dozens of houses destroyed after a strong earthquake rocked Indonesia's main island of Java on Wednesday.
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Talks with Muslim extremists resume
July 13, 2000
JOLO, Philippines (AP) - Two government negotiators returned to a remote Philippine province Wednesday to resume talks with Muslim extremists who are holding dozens of hostages, including a group of 20 mostly foreign captives abducted from Malaysia in April.
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UN asks Taliban to be more liberal
July 13, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - A senior U.N. official was in the
southern Afghan city of Kandahar Wednesday to try to get the ruling Taliban to rescind a new edict barring Afghan women from working for international relief agencies.
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FBI's Lee Seung's liaison with South Korea
July 13, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation will open a liaison office in Seoul this week, U.S. Embassy officials said Wednesday.
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"Tai-tais" and superstars' new fad: Fashion
July 13, 2000
HONG KONG (AP) - Tall, lean models wearing fluffy fabrics in shades of spring strutted across a square stage decorated with rows of plastic fauna and flora, showing off the latest in local design during Hong Kong Fashion Week.
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Tipper Gore as first lady
July 12, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Tipper Gore says her penchant for spontaneity and desire for fun will continue even if her husband, Al Gore, is elected and she becomes first lady.
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Conspiracy in new constitution?
July 12, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Sri Lanka's largest nationalist party on Tuesday accused the government and main opposition of conspiracy to divide the country in the guise of trying to end the 17-year
civil war.
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Coup supporters seize resort
July 12, 2000
SUVA (AP) - Rebel supporters seized an upscale resort in Fiji on Tuesday, the military regime said, worsening the 54-day government crisis with the first attack on a foreign facility.
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Clinton worried about
violence if summit fails
July
11, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - President Bill Clinton says the Middle East "can
move forward toward peace, or can slide back into turmoil" depending on
the outcome of this week's Israeli-Palestinian summit at Camp David.
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Chinese premier’s
first-ever visit to EU
July
11, 2000
BRUSSELS
(AP) - Chinese Prime Minister Zhu Rongji was starting the most important
part of his 15-day European tour Monday by making a first-time visit for a
Chinese leader to the capital of the European Union.
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The
Bob Hope of Middle East
July
11, 2000
DAMASCUS,
Syria (AP) - For most of his 40-year career, comedian Douraid Laham got to
do what no other Syrian could: criticize his government and get away with
it.
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Philippines
Garbage Slide Kills 60
July 11, 2000
MANILA, Philippines
(AP) — A mountain of garbage loosened by rain collapsed and burst into
flames Monday at Manila's biggest dump, flattening squatters' shanties and
killing 60 people, officials said.
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Japan: lately ‘the land of setting sun’
July 10, 2000
MIYAKEJIMA, Japan (AP) - Hours after a volcanic eruption, a
strong earthquake jolted a string of islands off Tokyo Sunday, cracking roads, bursting a water pipe and triggering landslides that damaged homes.
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Ulster Protestants protest by divisive march
July 10, 2000
PORTADOWN, Northern Ireland (AP) - An estimated 2,000 grim-faced
Protestant Orangemen stepped off Sunday for the most divisive march
in Northern Ireland, an annual procession that has already inspired
widespread violence.
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Running mates
run for Vice-Presidency
July 10, 2000
STATE COLLEGE, Pa.
(AP) — As the nation's governors gathered Saturday to discuss America's
role in the global economy, a matter of raw ambition topped their hidden
agenda: the vice presidency.
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Review:
Craftsmanship like a Potter
July 10, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) —
``Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire'' has everything that made the first
three Potter books so successful — an absorbing blend of humor, charm,
wit, and a hefty dose of adventure.
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Haitians likely to bring back Aristide
July 10, 2000
ST. MARC, Haiti (AP) - Haitians appeared set to grant former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's party overwhelming control of Parliament in elections Sunday, even though many people question the legality of a vote that is being challenged by opposition parties and much of the international community.
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1st anniversary of bloody police raid
July 10, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - The brother of Iran's president - a Popular reformer in his own right - was quoted calling for peace Sunday following violent clashes between supporters and opponents of democratic reforms that left at least a dozen people injured.
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UN wants first-ever election in Kosovo
July 10, 2000
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia (AP) - With a fun run for ethnic Albanians and appeals to the Serbs, the United Nations is launching a major push to register as many Kosovars as possible for the province's first internationally upervised election before the registration deadline next weekend.
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US servicemen getting entangled
July 10, 2000
NAHA, Japan (AP) - Police on Okinawa arrested a U.S. Air Force
serviceman on suspicion he drove through a red light and hit a
pedestrian in the latest in a string of alleged crimes involving the
U.S. military.
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It's Camp David after a quarter century
July
9, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) —
The future of Jerusalem looms as the potential deal-breaker in Tuesday's
last-ditch summit between Israeli and Palestinian leaders at Camp David, Md.
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Speight's cousin shaves the top
again
July
9, 2000
SUVA, Fiji
(AP) — A second hostage crisis erupted Saturday in Fiji as armed
rebels supporting coup leader George Speight seized 30 soldiers,
police and government officials in a police station outside the
capital.
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'Harry
Potter' emerges from the
‘Pot’
July
9, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) —
Children and adults, unwilling to wait until morning, swamped bookstores
across America into the wee hours Saturday, eager to read the latest
exploits of Harry Potter, the boy wizard.
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‘State union address’ in former Soviet Union
July 9, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that
only a strong, unified government with a clearly defined division of
powers could reverse the nation's sharp decline and guarantee the
people's well-being.
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Police barricade Sharif's home
July 9, 2000
LAHORE (AP) - Police, who were trying to stop an
anti-government march on Saturday, arrested the wife of deposed
premier Nawaz Sharif and march leader after a brief car chase
through the congested streets of this eastern Punjab city, witnesses
and police said.
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Philippines also hit by natural calamity
July 9, 2000
MANILA (AP) - Rains fell and flood waters rose
across the northern Philippines Saturday, bringing the death toll to
42 and doubling the number of people displaced by twin typhoons,
officials said.
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Radical Palestinian group chooses new leader
July 9, 2000
DAMASCUS (AP) - The Palestinian extremist group, the
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, elected a new leader
Saturday, replacing George Habash who resigned in April, a spokesman
for the group said.
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3 way dispute between China, USA and Pakistan
July 9, 2000
BEIJING (AP) - China and the U.S. failed to put to rest a dispute
over China's aid to Pakistan's missile program during talks that
restarted dialogue on arms control after a 19-month interruption.
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Khatami visits economic giant Germany
July 9, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - Iran expects Germany to contain opposition to
President Mohammad Khatami's visit, state-run radio said Saturday, a
day after Iranian opposition activists protested the trip by
occupying part of the German consulate in Amsterdam.
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Techno music fans for annual Love Parade
July 9, 2000
BERLIN, (AP) - Driven by thundering beats, hundreds of thousands
of techno music fans converged in central Berlin on Saturday for the
annual Love Parade - the world's biggest dance party of its kind.
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Another
Earthquake Strikes Nicaragua
July
8, 2000
MANAGUA, Nicaragua (AP) — The second strong earthquake in as many days
shook Nicaragua Friday, causing houses to collapse and terrifying residents,
radio reports said. There were reports of at least two deaths and several
injuries.
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Japan affected by Typhoon
July
8, 2000
TOKYO (AP) -- A typhoon that
killed 12 people in the Philippines plowed into Japan Saturday, sending earth
loosened by a powerful earthquake crashing down from cliffs to bury buildings
and roads.
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World Bank Rejects Loan to
China
July
8, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) -- World Bank
directors bowed to opposition from the United States, other governments and
human rights groups Friday and rejected a $40 million loan to China to resettle
58,000 farmers in traditionally Tibetan lands.
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Missile
Test
a
Step Ahead
July
8, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's rocket scientists lit the fuse on a $100
million missile defense test early Saturday. If successful, the test could move
the United States a step closer to building a nationwide anti-missile shield.
Congress says it is urgently needed; critics decry it as unworkable.
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Chechens Plan New
Attacks
July
8, 2000
NAZRAN,
Russia (AP) -- Russia's defense minister conceded Friday that the
10-month-old military offensive against rebels in Chechnya could drag on
through the winter and said the Chechens are planning new coordinated
attacks.
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Rwanda
Genocide Report Issued
July
8, 2000
UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- In a
scathing indictment of the failure to halt the worst genocide since World War
II, an international panel on Friday blamed the U.N. Security Council, the
United States, France and the Catholic Church for failing to prevent the
slaughter of more than 500,000 Rwandans.
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