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Coal mine explosion in China: 48 bodies rescued
September 30, 2000
SHANGHAI, (AP) - Rescuers dug by hand Friday to reach more
than 100 trapped miners as the number of confirmed deaths from a
coal mine explosion in southern China rose to 48.
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India to finalize defence deals with Russia
September 30, 2000
New Delhi, (UNB) Russian President Putins visit to India next week is likely to coincide finalisation of key defence deals to purchase sophisticated tanks and transfer of fighter aircraft.
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Evacuation speeds up as Vietnam flood death toll rises
September 30, 2000
HANOI, (AP) - Authorities have stepped up evacuation of
flood victims in the Mekong Delta as the death toll in Vietnam rose
to 159 and waters showed only slight signs of receding, officials
said Friday.
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Estrada offers amnesty to Muslim separatists
September 30, 2000
MANILA, (AP) - President Joseph Estrada offered
amnesty Friday to Muslim guerrillas in an effort to curtail a
decades-old secessionist rebellion that has killed more than 120,000
people in the southern Philippines.
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German leaders clash in parliament
September 30, 2000
BERLIN, (AP) - German leaders squabbled Friday about who made
mistakes during and after the rush to reunification, turning
parliament into a stage for partisan finger-pointing just days
before the nation marks 10 years of unity.
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Palestinians killed and injured at Jerusalem
September 30, 2000
JERUSALEM, (AP) - Firing rubber bullets, Israeli riot police broke
into a sacred walled compound in Jerusalem after Muslim noon prayers
Friday to disperse hundreds of Palestinian stone throwers. Three
Palestinians were killed and at least 96 injured in the bloodiest
clash in four years at the bitterly contested shrine.
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Amnesty International condemns treatment of women in Saudi Arabia
September 30, 2000
CAIRO, (AP) - Women in Saudi Arabia are accused of morality
crimes more often than men and face additional obstacles in
defending their virtue, according to a recent Amnesty International
report on discrimination against women in the conservative kingdom.
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16 weapons netted in W Timor crackdown
September 30, 2000
KUPANG, (AP) - Two days into a massive security
crackdown against militia groups in West Timor, police said on
Friday that they had netted only 16 weapons, all of which were
voluntarily surrendered.
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Saudis to allow Yemeni planes to fly over
September 30, 2000
SAN`A, Yemen, (AP) - A Yemeni aircraft bound for Iraq took off
Friday after the Saudi government reversed its earlier refusal to
let it overfly Saudi Arabia, a Yemeni official said.
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Thailand supports upcoming UN mission to Myanmar
September 30, 2000
BANGKOK, (AP) - Thailand voiced support Friday for a
United Nations mission to break the political deadlock inside
Myanmar, warning the situation there could deteriorate and affect
other countries in the region.
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"The older I get, the less I'm nervous"-Gore
September 30, 2000
WASHINGTON, (AP) - A lot hinges on his performance in the coming
presidential debates but Al Gore says that after all these years in
politics, it's getting easier to take even the big moments in
stride.
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Police arrest Iraqi who attempted to hijack plane
September 29, 2000
AMMAN (AP) - An Iraqi man who made a halfhearted attempt to hijack a Jordanian plane has been arrested, Jordanian civil aviation said Thursday.
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Scores dead, missing in coal mine blast in China
September 29, 2000
SHANGHAI (AP) - A gas explosion in a coal mine in southern China left as many as 161 miners dead or missing, officials said Thursday.
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Floods threaten West Bengal and Bangladesh
September 28, 2000
CALCUTTA (AP) - Flood waters fed by late monsoon rains
gushed over the banks of the Hooghly River, shoved aside sandbag
barriers and inundated much of the 300-year-old city of Calcutta on
Wednesday.
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South Africa and India sign defense agreement
September 28, 2000
CAPE TOWN (AP) - South Africa and India agreed
Wednedsay to cooperate on peacekeeping, counterterrorism and other
defense-related areas.
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Russia chooses Norwegian firm to help retrieve submariners' remains
September 28, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will initial a contract with a Norwegian
company on retrieving the remains of 118 sailors from the sunken
nuclear submarine Kursk this week, a top government official said
Wednesday.
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EU plans air traffic safety agency
September 28, 2000
BRUSSELS (AP) - The European Union's head office
Wednesday revealed plans to create an aviation safety agency.
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UN urged to push for talks between factions in Afghanistan
September 28, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia's foreign minister on Wednesday urged the
United Nations to push for talks between warring factions in
Afghanistan, saying there was no military solution to the conflict.
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Radovan Karadzic proven guilty of atrocities
September 27, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has
been ordered by a U.S. jury to pay dlrs 4.5 billion in damages for
atrocities committed by his soldiers.
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France wants aircraft to fly to Iraq without UN authorization
September 27, 2000
UNITED NATIONS (AP) - France proposed that aircraft be allowed to
fly to Iraq with just a simple notification of the U.N. committee
monitoring sanctions against Baghdad -- but the United States
protested that the committee must authorize all flights.
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Koreas agree to work to end threat of war
September 27, 2000
CHEJU (AP) - The defense ministers of South and
North Korea, whose armies have faced off against each other for half
a century, ended two days of talks Tuesday with a pledge to diminish
the threat of war on their peninsula.
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Support rate for Mori low at 20 percent
September 27, 2000
TOKYO (AP) - Public support for Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori's
Cabinet remains low at 20 percent, a newspaper poll published
Tuesday shows.
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Grand Dame of Thai classical dance dies
September 27, 2000
BANGKOK (AP) - Paew Sanitwongsenee, the Grand Dame of
Thai classical dance who learned her art under royal patronage and
embellished it with foreign nuances during her European travels, has
died. She was 96.
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Floods Kill 700 in South Asia
September 26, 2000
CALCUTTA, India (AP) Rescue crews used boats and military helicopters Monday to help some of the millions of people washed out of their homes by floods believed to have killed more than 700 in India and Bangladesh.
Authorities were to trying to ferry victims to higher ground, but most remained marooned atop buildings. Air force helicopters were dropping food and water purification packets.
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Milosevic seeks runoff after vote
September 26, 2000
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) Tens of thousands of jubilant opposition supporters celebrated Monday their apparent electoral victory over President Slobodan
Milosevic, who was seeking to force a runoff despite calls to accept the end of his 13 years in power.
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Arafat, Barak pressured to meet
September 26, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) The Israeli and Palestinian leaders met in Israel on Monday under U.S. pressure to come up with a permanent deal, but with little to show after two months of massaging the dealbreaker Jerusalem.
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Talk shows become obligatory on campaign trail
September 26, 2000
WASHINGTON, (AP) - First he kissed Oprah Winfrey's cheek. Then, in
a style more flattering than imitating, George W. Bush strolled onto
the set of Regis Philbin's morning talk show dressed exactly like
the host - in a matching shirt-and-tie combination.
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Judge orders Pinochet medical tests
September 26, 2000
SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) A judge on Monday ordered Gen. Augusto Pinochet to undergo medical tests to determine whether the former dictator is mentally fit to stand trial on human rights charges stemming from the killing of political dissidents during his 1973-1990 regime.
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Myanmar junta lashes out at Suu Kyi
September 26, 2000
YANGON, (AP)- Myanmar's ruling junta on Monday lashed
out at Aung San Suu Kyi and her Western supporters, saying the
opposition leader's "stop me if you dare" campaign is hurting the
government's goal to establish a new kind of democracy.
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Philippine military assault on Muslim rebels
September 26, 2000
JOLO, (AP) - More than 36,000 villagers have fled
their homes to escape a heavy military assault on Muslim rebels
holding 17 hostages on a small southern Philippine island, more than
twice the number earlier reported, officials said Monday.
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Twenty-four rebels killed in Sri Lanka's north
September 26, 2000
COLOMBO, (AP)- Twenty-four Tamil rebels were killed
and six soldiers were wounded in confrontations in Sri Lanka's
northern Jaffna Peninsula, the government said Monday.
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Opposition claiming Yugoslavia vote
September 25, 2000
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (AP) After an election Sunday marked by a large turnout and allegations of fraud, Yugoslavia's once struggling opposition claimed victory and urged Slobodan Milosevic to peacefully quit power after 13 years of hardline rule.
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Barak ready for partial agreement
September 25, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) Rolling back expectations of a final deal by next month, Prime Minister Ehud Barak said Sunday that he is prepared for a partial agreement with the Palestinians a prospect the Palestinians said is out of the question.
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Presidential polls show tight race
September 25, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) Al Gore and George W. Bush are locked in a close race in a national tracking poll out Saturday and several states thought to be swinging Gore's direction reflected an overall tightening of the race.
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Korean defense chiefs meet
September 25, 2000
CHEJU, South Korea (AP) -- The defense ministers of South and North Korea held reconciliation talks Monday for the first time in five decades of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border.
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Another Cuban plane in distress
September 25, 2000
BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- The co-pilot on a Cuban airliner with 76 passengers on board suffered a fatal heart attack after taking off from Bogota, forcing the plane to make an emergency landing, authorities said Sunday.
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Spy's asylum bid riles inmate's dad
September 25, 2000
LIMA, Peru (AP) The father of an American woman jailed on terrorism charges expressed outrage Sunday that deposed spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos was allowed to flee to Panama while his daughter continues to languish in a Peruvian prison.
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Vatican looks to mend religion ties
September 25, 2000
LISBON, Portugal (AP) Vatican officials sought to mend relations with other religions at an international ecumenical meeting here Sunday after straining their ties with claims of the primacy of the Roman Catholic church.
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