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Strong
quake shakes central Turkey, at least 2 killed
June
7, 2000
ANKARA,
JUNE 6 (AP) - A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude
of 5.9 shook central Turkey Tuesday, killing at least two people, injuring
some 30 others and sending thousands into the
streets
in panic.
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Violence
breaks out in Solomon Islands
June
7, 2000
WELLINGTON,
JUNE 6 (AP) - Fighting broke out Tuesday between rival
rebels in the Solomon Islands, the tiny nation thrown into crisis when
armed men seized the prime minister on Monday and
demanded
his removal, officials in New Zealand said.
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Officials
raise death toll in Sumatra earthquake to 103
June
7, 2000
BENGKULU,
Indonesia, JUNE 6 (AP) - The official death toll from Sumatra's massive
earthquake rose to 103 on Tuesday as the search for victims intensified
despite rumbling aftershocks that kept scared survivors outdoors.
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Albright,
trying to speed up peace talks, meeting with Arafat
June
7, 2000
JERUSALEM,
JUNE 6 (AP) - With Israel hinting of territorial concessions but
complaining of delays by Yasser Arafat, U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright is meeting with the Palestinian leader as she tries to move the
Middle East peace process forward.
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New
discoveries add to understanding of black holes
June
7, 2000
WASHINGTON,
JUNE 6 (AP) - Supermassive black holes were once only a theory, but
astronomers have now found and studied enough of them to draw some
conclusions about how they form and where they can exist.
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EU
ministers back Greek euro-zone entry
June
6, 2000
LUXEMBOURG,
JUNE 5 (AP) - European Union finance ministers Monday backed Greece's
bid to adopt the euro on New Year's Day and become the 12th member of the
euro-zone currency bloc, EU officials said.
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Fiji's
military: Rebel leader can't be part of new government
June
6, 2000
SUVA,
JUNE 5 (AP) - Rejecting one of rebel leader George Speight's key
demands for ending Fiji's hostage crisis, the nation's military ruler said
Monday that Speight and his followers will be barred from participation in
any interim government.
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Sri
Lankan media resists censorship with lawsuits, defiance, humor
June
6, 2000
COLOMBO,
JUNE 5 (AP) - "Censored." The
Sunday Times splashed the single word across the op-ed page after
the government censor spiked its entire report on the escalation of the
war against Tamil separatists in Sri Lanka's northern Jaffna peninsula.
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Solomon
Islands prime minister taken hostage, New Zealand diplomats Say
June
6, 2000
WELLINGTON,
JUNE 5 (AP) - A rebel group fighting in the Solomon Islands took the prime
minister and other government officials hostage Monday and put up road
blocks around Honiara, the capital, officials in New Zealand said.
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Clinton,
Putin ready to sign agreement on plutonium disposal
June
5, 2000
MOSCOW,
JUNE 4 (AP) - U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir
Putin met in the Kremlin Sunday for talks aimed at further reducing the
nuclear threat. As a first step, they agreed to give up 68 tons of
weapons-grade plutonium.
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Fiji
rebel leader meets military to discuss latest demands
June
5, 2000
SUVA,
JUNE 4 (AP) - Rebel leader George Speight spent Sunday airing his latest
demands to Fiji's military government - and he said later a new trust was
developing but gave no word on when he might free his hostages.
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Hungarian
parliament to vote on new president
June
5, 2000
BUDAPEST,
JUNE 4 (AP) - The Hungarian parliament is to vote Monday in a special
session to select a new president to succeed Arpad Goencz, who leaves office
in August after having served the maximum two terms allowed by the
constitution.
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West
Papua calls for independence despite Indonesian warnings
June
4, 2000
JAYAPURA,
JUNE 3 (AP) - A landmark congress of West Papua activists
on Saturday demanded full independence from Indonesia despite Jakarta's
warning that the restive province will not be allowed to break away.
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Fiji
rebels issue new demands in hostage crisis
June
4, 2000
SUVA,
JUNE 3 (AP) - Backtracking on his plan to release hostages this weekend,
coup leader George Speight issued a new list of demands Saturday night
that would place Fiji under the control of
his
gang of rebels.
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US
may impose sanctions against Fiji for coup
June
3, 2000
WASHINGTON,
JUNE 2 (AP) - The State Department says it is considering a range
of punitive actions against the military leaders in Fiji who declared
martial law on Monday following a coup staged by rebels two weeks
ago.
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Pakistani
court brings charges of tax evasion, fraud against Sharif
June
3, 2000
ATTOCK
FORT, Pakistan, JUNE 2 (AP) - A Pakistani court on Friday charged deposed
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif with tax evasion, corruption and fraudulently
importing a helicopter.
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Putin
government brings strange sense of calm to Russia
June
3, 2000
MOSCOW,
JUNE 2 (AP) - Vladimir Putin has been president for just a few months,
but Russia seems eerily calm after years of political and economic
chaos that many Russians once feared would plunge the country
into disaster.
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Israeli leaders consider possibility of
renewed talks with Syria
June
3, 2000
JERUSALEM,
JUNE 2 (AP) - Syria may be signaling that it wants to resume peace
talks with Israel, an Israeli Cabinet minister said Friday, after
Prime Minister Ehud Barak made an overture to Damascus.
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Fiji
coup leader leaves compound where hostages held
June
2, 2000
SUVA, Fiji,JUNE 1 (AP) - Coup
leader George Speight on Thursday left the parliamentary
compound where his rebels are holding more than 30 hostages, and went to a
military barracks to meet for the first time with Fiji's new martial law
ruler.
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US-Illegal
Workers Court rules for workers who use false Social Security cards
June
2, 2000
SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 1 (AP) - A
federal appeals court ruled illegal immigrants
seeking to stay in the United States cannot be disqualified simply because
they used a fake Social Security card to work.
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Women
remain underpaid, under-represented, and under threat
June
2, 2000
UNITED NATIONS, JUNE 1 (AP) - Five
years after a major international conference pledged to seek full equality
of the sexes, more women are working and more girls are going to school -
but women remain underpaid,
under-represented in governments and under threat of physical and sexual
abuse.
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Clinton
to meet with Barak
June
2, 2000
LISBON, JUNE 1 (UNB/AP) - U.S.
President Bill Clinton is going into talks
with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak with a "much greater sense of
urgency" created by the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon.
"All
the balls are up in the air," he says.
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Barak
accuses Palestinians of foot-dragging in peace talks
June
2, 2000
LISBON, JUNE 1 (UNB/AP) - Using
unusually harsh language, Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday accused Palestinian negotiators of
dragging their feet in peace treaty talks with Israel.
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Philippine
government presents peace proposal to Muslim rebels
June
2, 2000
COTABATO, Philippines, JUNE 1 (UNB/AP)
- Muslim rebels said Thursday they will review a government-proposed
political settlement of their separatist rebellion in the southern
Philippines, but need more time than allowed by the government.
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Global
ad ban on tobacco sought by WHO
June
1, 2000
BANGKOK, MAY 31 (AP) - The World Health
Organization began a hard-hitting campaign Wednesday against tobacco
advertising it says lures millions of smokers a year to an early grave.
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Clinton
to squeeze in Kohl during Berlin visit
June
1, 2000
BERLIN, MAY 31 (AP) - U.S. President
Bill Clinton will make time during his three-day visit to Berlin this week
to meet with an old friend, disgraced former Chancellor Helmut Kohl,
officials said Wednesday.
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Putin's
plan to rein in Russia's regions debated in parliament
June
1, 2000
MOSCOW, MAY 31 (AP) - President
Vladimir Putin's plan to strengthen the central
government and rein in regional leaders received enthusiastic support
Wednesday from lawmakers in the lower house of parliament.
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NATO
chief strolls around Kosovo capital
June
1, 2000
PRISTINA, MAY 31 (AP) - NATO's
secretary-general strolled down Kosovo's central shopping street Wednesday
to see for himself what people thought about the alliance nearly one year
after its 78-day bombing campaign ended Yugoslav President Slobodan
Milosevic's rule.
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Tens
of thousands of Korean workers go on four-day strike
June
1, 2000
SEOUL, MAY 31 (AP) - Thousands of union
workers marched through downtown Seoul
Wednesday after walking off their jobs demanding a shorter work week and
better working conditions.
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Turtles
to help clean up Indian river
June
1, 2000
NEW DELHI, MAY 31 (AP) - Carnivorous
turtles will help authorities clean up a polluted river in northern India,
a newspaper said Wednesday.
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