Even
Cuba agrees with USA
June
30, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - It was a rare example of the United States and Cuba
on the same side of an issue, both countries agreeing that Elian
Gonzalez belonged back in Cuba.
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War
criminal Milosevic must be ousted
June
30, 2000
BERLIN
(AP)- Secretary of State Madeleine Albright on Thursday renewed
a so-far unsuccessful campaign to depose Yugoslavia President
Slobodan Milosevic.
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Disgraced
Kohl faces hearing in financing probe
June
30, 2000
BERLIN
(AP) - After months of buildup, disgraced former Chancellor Helmut Kohl
finally takes the stand in hearings examining whether cash donations
influenced decisions during his 16 years in power.
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OIC
deadlocked on electing secretary general
June
30, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR (AP) - Islamic countries on Thursday appeared deadlocked on the issue
of electing a new secretary general for the Organization of the Islamic
Conference, delegates and diplomats said.
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Indian
foreign minister's first visit to Israel
June
30, 2000
NEW
DELHI, India (AP) - India's improving relations with Israel are highlighted
by the arrival Friday of Jaswant Singh, the first Indian foreign minister to
visit since diplomatic ties were established in 1992.
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Attack
on FAO building in Baghdad
June
29, 2000
CAIRO
(AP) - An attack on the Food and Agriculture Organization
building in Iraq on Wednesday has left two people dead, according to a
staffer at the U.N. agency.
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Military
plane crashes off western Japan
June
29, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - A Japanese military plane carrying five Air Self-Defense
Force soldiers crashed into the sea Wednesday while on a test flight off
Japan's western coast, officials said.
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‘Anti-India
elements’ attacked Christians
June
29, 2000
NEW
DELHI (AP) - The national government summoned state officials and law
enforcement officers Wednesday to crack down on violence against
Christians.
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$16
billion vanishes into the thin air
June
29, 2000
BANDAR
SERI BEGAWAN (AP) - News of an errant prince squandering
his country's financial reserves would seem likely to shake the
foundations of any kingdom.
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Minister
fired after sex scandal
June
29, 2000
WELLINGTON
(AP) - Prime Minister Helen Clark on Wednesday
fired a Cabinet minister who refused resign over allegations of sexual
misbehavior and that he threatened to shoot his nephew.
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Queen Mother
approaching 100
June
29, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - London's business district celebrated Queen Mother Elizabeth's
approaching 100th birthday Tuesday with pealing bells and a sumptuous meal
of lobster, lamb and strawberry meringue.
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The woeful saga of
a sex slave
June
29, 2000
FREETOWN
(AP) - Musu Kamara laughs and smiles as she weaves a straw basket in a
classroom full of chattering girls.Dressed in a navy blue uniform, she
seems like any other teen-ager -apart from the letters "RUF"
carved into her chest.
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Perelman’s
4th, Barkin’s 2nd
June
29, 2000
NEW
YORK (AP) - It's the fourth time for him, the second for her: Billionaire
cosmetics executive Ron Perelman and actress Ellen Barkin are getting
married.
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THIS DAY, THAT YEAR
June
29, 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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Robert Mugabe
further rules over
June
28, 2000
HARARE,
Zimbabwe (AP) - President Robert Mugabe's ruling party won a narrow
majority Tuesday in Zimbabwe's parliamentary elections despite historic
gains by the opposition and strong signs of discontent with its 20
years of rule.
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Lazio literally
with a ‘stiff upper lip’
June
28, 2000
ALBANY,
New York (AP) - Rep. Rick Lazio is having teething problems as he tries to
mount a statewide Senate campaign against Hillary Rodham Clinton with less
than six months until the election.
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Bush’s
speech bitten by the Hispanic bug
June
28, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - George W. Bush told Hispanic leaders he wants to split the
Immigration and Naturalization Service into two parts: a welcoming one for
legitimate immigrants and a tough one for border enforcement.
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Rebels
get 24 hours ultimatum to surrender
June
28, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji (AP) - A former officer of Britain's elite Special Air Service, who
is one of the leaders of the gunmen holding Fiji's government hostage,
said Tuesday the captives will die if the army tries to rescue them.
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Palestine
needs Islamic countries’ solidarity
June
28, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR (AP) - Muslim countries were urged Tuesday to show solidarity with
the Palestinians during a crucial stage of negotiations with Israel in their
quest for an independent homeland.
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Inspiration
of James Bond’s ‘Moneypenny’ dies
June
28, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - Vera Atkins, the World War II British spymaster who inspired the
efficient and unflappable Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond series, has
died. She was 92.
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THIS
DAY, THAT YEAR
June
28, 2000
UNDATED,
AP - Today is Monday, July 3, the 185th day of 2000. There are 181 days left
in the year.
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Women get the upper
hand in Japanese election
June
27, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - The victorious candidates leading the traditional
"banzai" cheer following Japan's national election included more
women than at any time in the last 44 years. But after the applause
died
down, some seemed pessimistic about the obstacles they still face
in the country's male-dominated political system.
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Is
Maluku becoming another kosovo ?
June
27, 2000
JAKARTA,
JUNE 26 (AP) - Violence gripped the Maluku islands Monday, as church
leaders and protesters demanded the United Nations intervene and officials
reportedly declared a limited state of
emergency
to halt escalating fighting between Muslims and Christians.
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International
conference center booby-trapped
June
27, 2000
PARIS
(AP) - Workers on Monday found a package booby-trapped with 25 sticks of
dynamite at a work site facing the International Conference Center in the
French capital, not far from the Arc de Triomphe, police said.
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Thai
elephant dies after voracious eating
June
27, 2000
BANGKOK
(AP) - A starving Thai elephant died after eating 50 kilograms (110 pounds)
of uncooked rice then drinking 250 liters (65 gallons) of water, a
veterinarian said Monday.
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Speight: Shaving
off the head of Fiji politics
June
26, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji (AP) - Gunmen holding Fiji's deposed government at gunpoint released
four female captives Sunday, but gave no commitment on when they would
free the remaining 27 hostages.
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Japan:
The latest country to try political dynasty
June
26, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - The daughter of late former Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi
won her father's seat Parliament in Sunday's general election,
demonstrating the enduring mystique of political dynasties
among
Japan's electorate.
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"Palestine is
ours, ours, ours!": Arafat
June
26, 2000
JERUSALEM,
(AP) - Turning up the heat on Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat told thousands of cheering
supporters in the West Bank on Sunday that Palestinian
statehood
could be proclaimed within weeks. "Palestine is ours, ours,
ours!" he declared.
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Koreans to remain vigilant towards N Korea
June
26, 2000
SEOUL
(AP) - Addressing thousands of military veterans on the 50th anniversary of
the start of the Korean War, President Kim Dae-jung on Sunday urged his
armed forces to remain alert despite moves toward reconciliation with
communist North Korea.
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Ferry
disaster in China
June
26, 2000
BEIJING
(AP) - The capsizing of a river ferry packed with farmers headed to market
in southwestern China last week may have killed up to
131 people, state media said Sunday.
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Leading
Bosnian war crimes suspect arrested
June
26, 2000
SARAJEVO,
(AP) - NATO-led peacekeepers Sunday arrested
a leading Serb war crimes suspect accused of massacring Muslim and Croat
prisoners while he commanded the notorious Keraterm
prison
camp during the Bosnian war.
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Globo d'Oro (Golden
Globe) award announced
June
26, 2000
ROME
(AP) - A Chilean-born man's story about the abduction and torture
of a young woman during Argentine military rule of the 1970s has been
chosen best film by the foreign press based in Italy.
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First-ever
parliamentary election in Zimbabwe
June
25, 2000
HARARE,
Zimbabwe (AP) - For the first time since independence, Zimbabweans
are faced with a real opportunity to change the face of their government
when they cast votes in two-day parliamentary
elections
beginning Saturday.
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Gore’s
answers matches Clinton’s in Monica case
June
25, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - Wrestling with the meaning of the term "fund raising" and
insisting there was no price tag on White House coffees, U.S. Vice
President Al Gore engaged in sometimes sharp exchanges with a Justice
Department prosecutor who now wants a special counsel to investigate the
truthfulness of Gore's answers.
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National Guard
records not earth-shattering
June
25, 2000
AUSTIN,
Texas (AP) - Texas Gov. George W. Bush's campaign workers have concluded
that no documents exist showing he reported for duty as ordered in Alabama
with the Texas Air National Guard in 1972.
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Indonesian
President face police interrogation
June
25, 2000
JAKARTA
(AP) - Police have questioned Indonesian President
Abdurrahman Wahid over a bizarre and politically damaging scandal in which
his masseur is accused of using his name to steal dlrs 4 million from the
national food agency.
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50th
anniversary of ‘Forgotten War'
June
25, 2000
PANMUNJOM,
Korea, (AP) - Fifty years after North Korea attacked the South, Korean War
veterans gathered at former battlegrounds to remember
the "Forgotten War" that lasted three years, cost millions of
lives and left a small peninsula nation divided.
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Korean-War
Anniversary: Casualty records
June
25, 2000
UNDATED(AP)
- Casualty totals from the 1950-53 Korean War:
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Revitalization
of OIC demanded by Malaysia
June
25, 2000
KUALA
LUMPUR (AP) - The Organization of the Islamic Conference must be revitalized
to meet the challenges of globalization, Foreign Minister Syed Hamid Albar
said Saturday.
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Dutch
trucker charged as police seek identity of 58 illegal immigrants
June
24, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - The Dutch driver of a truck in which 58 Chinese illegal
immigrants died in an airtight compartment was due to appear court Friday
on charges of manslaughter.
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Rebels
reject government's autonomy offer
June
24, 2000
COLOMBO
(AP) - The government's efforts to end the 17-year-old
Tamil separatist war suffered a serious setback Friday with the Tamil
Tiger rebels rejecting its offer to join an Interim
Council
to administer Tamil majority areas.
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Deadlock
broken on talks to release Fiji's hostages
June
24, 2000
SUVA,
Fiji (AP) - Fiji's military rulers and gunmen holding 31members of the
former government hostage reached a deal Friday that would
see the captives released within days, key players on both
sides
said.
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Parliament
debates Putin's plan to curb provinces' rights
June
24, 2000
MOSCOW
(AP) - Regional officials have challenged President Vladimir
Putin's proposal to rein in Russia's unruly provinces, but most lawmakers
were expected to back the bill in a key legislative
session
Friday.
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Tung
rejects call for more democracy amid string of problems
June
24, 2000
HONG
KONG (AP) - Despite growing public dissatisfaction with unemployment,
a depressed property market and a series of housing scandals, Chief
Executive Tung Chee-hwa said Friday he has no plans to
allow more democracy.
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Parliamentary
election signals white: Zimbabweans return to politics
June
24, 2000
NYATI,
Zimbabwe (AP) - An unspoken compromise has governed Zimbabwe
since it gained independence from white-minority rule: Whites could keep
their farms, their businesses, their economic dominance, as long as they
did not interfere with the ruling party's political dominance.
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Muslim-Christian
fighting enters third day in Ambon, 10 killed
June
24, 2000
TERNATE,
Indonesia (AP) - Fierce sectarian street battles flared for
a third straight day in Ambon, the capital of the Maluku islands, on
Friday, killing at least 10 people, residents and officials said.
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Airbus
announces launch of A3XX super-jumbo jet
June 24, 2000
PARIS, (AP) - Airbus Industries announced Friday the launch of the
long-awaited A3XX double-decker jumbo jet that
can carry 555 people, creating a classy
and powerful new competitor to Boeing's long-haul aircraft.
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Nurse
kills children under own care!!
June
23, 2000
LONDON,
JUNE 22 (AP) - British police are investigating a nurse in connection with
the deaths of children in her care.
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Obuchi’s
daughter gets hate mail with bullet
June
23, 2000
TOKYO,
(AP) - The daughter of a late Japanese prime minister received troubling
mail this week - an envelope containing an empty bullet cartridge.
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Sex
Bias: Airhostesses told not to gain weight
June
23, 2000
SAN
FRANCISCO (AP) - United Airlines discriminated against female flight
attendants from 1989 to 1994 by requiring them to stay thinner than their
male counterparts, a federal court ruled.
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Buckingham
Palace needs $ 105,000 for wardrobes
June
23, 2000
LONDON
(AP) - British taxpayers spent 15 million pounds (dlrs 22 million) on
maintenance of royal palaces last year – including 70,000 pounds (dlrs
105,000) for a set of new wardrobes at Buckingham Palace.
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Open
fire by guards at apparel industry
June
23, 2000
PHNOM
PENH, Cambodia (AP) - Security guards at a Cambodian garment factory
opened fire on a mob of striking workers Thursday, injuring at least one
of about 1,000 protesters demanding a substantial pay raise.
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‘Superman’
wants under-populated ‘super planet’
June
23, 2000
UNITED
NATIONS (AP) - In an impassioned speech at an award ceremony honoring
Tipper Gore's work with children, paralyzed U.S. actor Christopher Reeve
urged world leaders to take urgent action to stop
global population growth.
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Bush
doubles lead over Gore
June
23, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - George W. Bush has built a double-digit lead over
Al Gore in a new bipartisan poll, getting more credit as the
presidential
candidate who would keep America prosperous and showing strength among
groups Gore needs to win.
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“Only
after Israel honors promises”: Arafath
June
23, 2000
RAMALLAH
(AP) - On the eve of a renewed U.S. mediation effort, Palestinian leader
Yasser Arafat said Thursday that a Mideast summit should only be convened
in Washington after Israel honors its outstanding obligations.
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One
year in prison for wanting to celebrate Assad's death
June
22, 2000
BEIRUT
(AP) - A military court has sentenced a Lebanese man to one year in prison
after he was found guilty of vilifying the late Syrian President Hafez
Assad by telling friends and relatives Assad's death was cause for
celebration, court officials said Wednesday.
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Professor
jailed for insulting Islam leaves for exams
June
22, 2000
TEHRAN
(AP) - A prominent journalist and university professor jailed on charges
of insulting Islam and inciting dissent has been allowed a short leave to
prepare exams, his family said Wednesday.
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Attempt
to enter Guinness book with a bench
June
22, 2000
TOKYO
(AP) - Need a place to sit? Organizers of a flower show in western Japan
have a seat with plenty of room: a 555-meter (1,832 foot) bench touted as
the world's longest.
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Smithsonian
to display Dresden Green and Hope
diamond
June
22, 2000
WASHINGTON
(AP) - This fall, visitors to the National Museum of Natural History will
be able to see what are probably the two most famous diamonds in the
world.
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