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Dr.
Bashar to Gen. Bashar: Saga of an ophthalmologist turned C-in-C
June
21, 2000
DAMASCUS
(AP) - Syria's official media went a gear higher in marketing the late
President Hafez Assad's son as the country's next leader Tuesday, while
the ruling Baath Party prepared to declare him its presidential nominee.
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Tamil
Tiger rebels making a strong mark in Sri Lanka’s Civil War
June
21, 2000
COLOMBO
(AP) - Sporadic fighting between government forces and Tamil Tiger rebels
near the northern city of Jaffna killed at least 17 guerrillas and wounded
seven, the government said Tuesday.
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Russia
won’t let go: but Chechen rebel fighters gets going
June
21, 2000
NAZRAN
(AP) - Rebels killed a Russian soldier in an ambush on a checkpoint in the
Chechen capital Grozny, while bad weather kept federal jets from bombing
rebel targets in the south, officials said Tuesday.
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US-Russia
nuclear arms control meet ends without result
June
20, 2000
OSLO
(AP) - A high-level meeting between the United States and Russia on arms
control ended Tuesday with no immediate comment from either side on the
outcome.
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Standup
comic turned governor makes a comic of himself in sex scandal
June
21, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - Prosecutors on Tuesday demanded 18 months in prison for a former
governor of Osaka who was driven from office by allegations that he
fondled a female college student in the back of a campaign van.
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Prophet
Mohammed (SM)’s birthday program canceled
June
21, 2000
JAKARTA
(AP)-Indonesia has canceled an international celebration to mark the
birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammed because invited Muslim leaders are
too busy to attend, the official Antara news agency reported Tuesday.
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"Robot
maids" wouldn’t fall down from high-rise windows
June
21, 2000
HONG
KONG (AP) - A university says it may have found a solution to the
occasional problem of window washers falling to their deaths from Hong
Kong's many high-rises - a "robot maid" that will do the work.
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Obituary:
Olivier Reverdin, Greek scholar and former Rolex chairman
June
21, 2000
GENEVA
(AP) - Olivier Reverdin, former chairman of Rolex watches and a Greek
scholar, has died, the company said Tuesday. He was 86.
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Takeshita:
"Shadow shogun" mentor of a generation
dies
June
20, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - Noboru Takeshita, a scandal-tainted former prime minister who
mentored a generation of
Japanese leaders as a behind-the-scenes "shadow shogun," died
Monday after a lengthy illness. He was 76.
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Arafat
accuses, Barak disposes
June
20, 2000
JERUSALEM
(AP) - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Cabinet accused Israel on Sunday
of planning to attack the Palestinian areas, after Israel's top soldier
warned that a delay in the peace process
could lead to fighting.
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Now
it’s Clinton vs. Bush in Texas
June
20, 2000
WASHINGTON,
(AP) - For the third time this year, President Bill Clinton
is venturing onto Gov. George W. Bush's Texas turf, in hopes his presence
will sweeten the Democratic Party's courtship of
pivotal
Hispanic voters.
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Pakistan
calls Indian allegations about
Kashmir:-'rubbish'
June
20, 2000
ISLAMABAD,
(AP) - Pakistan rejected Indian claims Monday that
thousands of Muslim militants were massing on its border preparing to
cross into Indian Kashmir.
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Kofi
Annan urges Israel to respect border with Lebanon
June
20, 2000
CAIRO,
(AP) - U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan called Israeli
Prime Minister Ehud Barak early Monday to urge him to respect the
U.N.-certified border with Lebanon.
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F-14
Tomcat crashes during US air show
June
20, 2000
WILLOW
GROVE, Pennsylvania (AP) - A military plane crashed in the woods during
an air show at Willow Grove Naval Air Station, killing the two people
aboard, authorities said.
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List
of last 3 years’ bomb blasts in Delhi
June
20, 2000
NEW
DELHI, (AP) - Here is a list of 12 bomb blasts in New Delhi
- most in the congested old "Walled City" - during the past
three years.
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Military rulers’ ambition drowning economy
gradually
June
19, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military rulers and coup leader George Speight
spent Sunday locked in talks, raising hopes of progress in efforts to end
a 31-day hostage crisis.
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Shootout continues to claim lives in Sierra
Leone
June
19, 2000
FREETOWN
(AP) - Gunfire erupted in the capital, Killing
at least one civilian, hospital officials said Sunday, prompting the
government to urge calm and insist security in Sierra Leone was assured.
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Even
Russia has arrestable and releasable tycoons now !
June
18, 2000
MOSCOW,
(AP) - After four days in prison and an outcry accusing the
Kremlin of cracking down on the press, media baron Vladimir Gusinsky was
freed, smiling and thanking the press for their intense coverage
of the case.
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Lebanon
rejects U.N. verification of Israeli troop pullout
June
18, 2000
UNITED
NATIONS, (AP) - In a setback for U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Lebanon rejected the United Nations' verification of Israel's
withdrawal from south Lebanon, saying Israel still controls some Lebanese
territory.
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"No-fly
zone" flights prevented Iraqi threats
June
18, 2000
WASHINGTON,
(AP) - The State Department expressed regret Friday over civilian deaths
in Iraq from U.S. and British air strikes but said the flights in the
"no-fly zones" have prevented Iraq from threatening citizens in
these areas.
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Church
urged to accept gay and lesbians
June
18, 2000
CLEVELAND,
(AP) - The United Church of Christ set up a dlrs 500,000
scholarship fund for gay and lesbian seminarians Friday and urged wider
acceptance of homosexuals by other denominations.
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The
Radioactive Man strikes back
June
18, 2000
TOKYO,
(AP) - A Tokyo man was arrested Saturday on suspicion of mailing
radioactive ore to 10 Japanese government offices earlier this month.
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Death
sentence for 10 in China
June
18, 2000
BEIJING,
(AP) - A Chinese court has sentenced ten people to death for murdering 28
migrant workers and then collecting 520,000 yuan (dlrs 62,000) in
insurance benefits, the state-run China Youth Daily reported Saturday.
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After summit, Koreas end propaganda
broadcasts
June
17, 2000
SEOUL
(AP) - Responding to an olive branch from North
Korea, South Korea ordered the suspension Friday of all anti-Pyongyang
propaganda broadcasts.
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Thousands of South Koreans rush to apply for
reunions with North Korean kin
June
17, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - Myung Shi-chung carefully wrote down everything
he knew about the 8-year-old brother he left behind in North
Korea in 1948. Then he glued his photograph to the application Friday,
officially registering his family as one of the thousands divided
by the North-South border.
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Malaysia's PM blasts hedge-fund operators
again
June
17, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR,(AP) - Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday
singled out hedge-fund operators as the main culprits who took
advantage of globalization to enrich themselves by speculating on
the weak currencies.
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Indonesia says handover of Suharto money is
within reach
June
17, 2000
JAKARTA, (AP) - An agreement for ex-President Suharto to
surrender millions of dollars in assets taken from the Indonesian state
is "within reach," President Abdur Rahman Wahid was quoted as
saying.
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Pakistan welcomes Indonesian president
June
17, 2000
ISLAMABAD, (AP) - Anxious for a share of Southeast Asian
markets, an
economically troubled Pakistan on Friday welcomed Indonesia's
President Abdurrahman Wahid.
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Lahoud:
Israel's withdrawal incomplete if it is based on "fictitious" U.N.
line
June
17, 2000
ABBASSIYEH
GATE, Lebanon, (AP) - Lebanon will consider Israel's withdrawal
from south Lebanon incomplete if it is based on a "fictitious"
U.N.-drawn border that Lebanon contends has been misplaced,
President Emile Lahoud said Friday.
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Muslim
fighters to force Philippines to lower economic growth expectations
June
17, 2000
MANILA,
JUNE 16 (AP) - The cost of a military offensive against
Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines will force the government
to lower its economic growth expectations for this year, Finance
Secretary Jose Pardo said Friday.
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Taiwan passes law to cut work hours for
laborers
June
17, 2000
TAIPEI, (AP) - Taiwan's Legislature passed a bill Friday to
cut the weekly hours for blue-collar workers from 48 to 42 - despite
fierce opposition by owners of labor-intensive industries.
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History
in the making: Korean unification in sight
June
16, 2000
SEOUL
(AP) - President Kim Dae-jung of South Korea disclosed
Thursday that he had discussed sensitive security issues during his summit
in North Korea, including the 37,000 U.S. soldiers stationed in the South
and the North's nuclear and missile programs.In
his speech upon his return to Seoul
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Nuclear
plant free Germany by 2020 A.D.
June
16, 2000
BERLIN
(AP) - German nuclear plants could start going off line in 2002
following a landmark agreement by the government and the power industry to
end the country's use of atomic energy, the environment minister
said Thursday.
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Murderer
convicted 14 years later by DNA test
June
16, 2000
TOWSON,
Maryland (AP) - New tests on a preserved DNA sample have linked
a 41-year-old prison inmate to the 1986 shootings of a man and
his wife, police said.
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U.S.
forces of NATO train Georgians
June
16, 2000
KODA,
Georgia (AP) - About 60 doctors, nurses and medics from the U.S.
Army and 100 Georgian counterparts on Thursday opened a 10-day joint
exercise on evacuating casualties from a massive disaster.
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US-China
military links being repaired
June
16, 2000
BEIJING
(AP) - China's defense minister met with the superintendent
of the U.S. Army academy West Point on Thursday, repairing military
contacts suspended a year ago.
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Are
Malaysian breads becoming bigger??
June
16, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR (AP) - A bakery was to be charged for producing
loaves of bread that were heavier and more expensive than permitted under
Malaysian law, a news report said Thursday.
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Bashar’s
replacing Hafez confirmed in Assad dynasty
June
16, 2000
DAMASCUS
(AP) - Syria confirmed Thursday that its parliament
would meet in 10 days to vote on Bashar Assad's presidential nomination,
the latest step toward cementing his power in the wake of his father's
death.
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Constitutional
amendment to safeguard dynasty
June
15, 2000
DAMASCUS
(AP) - Syria's powerful propaganda machine has been
busy since President Hafez Assad died, smoothing the shock of his death
and transferring the public devotion he had enjoyed to his chosen
successor: his son Bashar.
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Arafat
kisses Tlass, who called him “stripper”
June
15, 2000
DAMASCUS
(AP) - World leaders brought to Syria by death took
time to try revive the Mideast peace process, holding talks alongside
funeral services for longtime leader Hafez Assad.
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New
chief for Kashmir ceasefire team
June
15, 2000
UNITED
NATIONS (AP) - Maj. Gen. Manuel Saavedra of Uruguay has been appointed
chief military observer of the U.N. mission monitoring
the line of control between India and Pakistan in Kashmir, U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan announced Tuesday.
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