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Bush is not ready to be president: Democrats
October 31, 2000
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - George W. Bush is aiming his presidential
campaign toward California, saying he'll upset Al Gore there because
he's working hard to earn votes the vice president has taken for
granted.
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Putin & EU leaders agree on solution for Chechnya
October 31, 2000
PARIS (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin and European
leaders agreed Monday on the urgent need to find a political
solution in Chechnya, where rebels have been fighting Russian
soldiers, but made clear that Russian sovereignty must not be
compromised.
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Gunmen kill six members of minority Islamic sect
October 31, 2000
LAHORE (AP) - Masked gunmen attacked worshippers of a
minority Islamic sect in eastern Punjab province Monday, killing six
people as they prayed and wounding eight others, police said.
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US-Indonesian relations strained due to anti-Americanism
October 31, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - A year ago, Washington was among the
most enthusiastic supporters of Indonesia's nascent democracy after
decades of dictatorship.
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`Blair Witch' sequel disappoints box-office debut
October 31, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - The witch in the woods cast a weaker spell the second time around.
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Countdown to super Tuesday: Bush & Gore step up attacks
October 30, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - George W. Bush called Al Gore "a man who has
been in Washington too long," accusing him of divisively pitting
one group against another, while the vice president's campaigners
said they will make a key, closing issue of the Texas governor's
lack of seasoning.
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Gandhi faces challenge for fresh term as Congress president
October 30, 2000
NEW DELHI (AP) - Italian-born Sonia Gandhi, who is seeking a second term as the Congress president, faced a rebellion as the race for the top party post hotted up on Sunday.
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Curfew imposed in central Sri Lanka to control violence
October 30, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - Police imposed curfew and suspended trains to the central region after local residents attacked shops and trains, police said.
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Divers recover more bodies from sunken submarine
October 30, 2000
MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - Russian and Norwegian divers Sunday recovered several more bodies from the sunken Russian nuclear submarine Kursk, news reports said.
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Security tight for second round of voting in Egypt
October 30, 2000
ZAGAZIG, Egypt (AP) - Trucks filled with riot police were parked near polling stations in Egypt Sunday as voters elected a parliament.
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Koreans protest government refusal to allow Dalai Lama
October 30, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - Hundreds of Buddhists and supporters staged a rally Sunday to protest the government's refusal to allow a visit by the Dalai Lama.
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Police officer shoots & kills actor at Halloween party
October 30, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A police officer at a Halloween costume party
shot and killed an actor after the man pointed a fake gun at him,
police said.
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US embassy extends closure of public services
October 30, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - The United States Embassy in Jakarta, which temporarily discontinued some services last week after receiving an unspecified threat, will remain closed to the public until at least Tuesday, a spokesman said.
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Back to auditions Monday: Actors' strike officially over
October 30, 2000
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Representatives of television and radio
commercial actors have voted to go back to work, ending a six-month
strike against advertisers that was longest talent walkout in
Hollywood history.
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Taiwanese pull a truck: using a delicate body part
October 30, 2000
TAIPEI (AP) - Chen Ruey-he spread his legs, gritted his teeth and craned his neck, straining to pull the six-wheeler roped to his body.
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Pakistan warns US against violating its airspace
October 29, 2000
KARACHI (AP) - Pakistan Saturday said it would not
allow any country, including the United States, to use its air space
to attack its friendly neighbor Afghanistan, where suspected
terrorist Osama bin Laden is living.
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Clashes resume as Palestinians bury dead
October 29, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Rock-throwing clashes erupted in
the volatile Gaza Strip on Saturday as Palestinians buried their dead in
mass funerals following a day of widespread confrontations.
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Iranian oil minister says prices may drop sharply next year
October 29, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - Oil prices will plummet next year if the
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries continues to produce
at its current level, Iran's oil minister said in remarks published
Saturday.
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Power Dispute in Pakistan
October 26, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Pakistan's army government reached its
first big settlement with disgruntled private and semi-private power
producers Wednesday, Finance Minister Shaukat Aziz said.
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Barak urges Europeans to pressure Arafat for peace
October 26, 2000
BERLIN (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak urged Germany to
pressure Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat into ending Middle East
bloodshed, but German officials said Wednesday that Chancellor
Gerhard Schroeder would not take sides on an upcoming visit to the
region.
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Clinton campaign returns $1,000 to defender of Hamas
October 26, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton's Senate campaign has
returned a dlrs 1,000 donation from a Muslim leader who reportedly
has voiced support for a terrorist group that has carried out
suicide attacks on Israeli civilians, a campaign spokesman said
Wednesday.
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Junta leader loses control in Ivory Coast & flees Abidjan
October 26, 2000
ABIDJAN (AP) - Junta leader Gen. Robert Guei fled on Wednesday, as many of his security forces turned against him and joined thousands of demonstrators swarming the streets to protest his claim to have won presidential elections, soldiers said.
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Chief minister of India's most populous state resigns
October 26, 2000
LUCKNOW (AP) - The chief executive of India's most
populous state resigned Wednesday clearing the way for his successor
to take charge two weeks before the state is split into two smaller
units.
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Sri Lanka's ethnic cauldron has long simmered
October 26, 2000
COLOMBO (AP) - The immediate provocation for
Wednesday's attack on a rehabilitation center where 22 former child
soldiers of the separatist Tamil Tiger rebels were killed was the
taking hostage of Captain Ajith Abeyratne, from the majority
Sinhalese community.
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Divers ready to enter sunken Russian submarine
October 26, 2000
MURMANSK, Russia (AP) - A deepsea diver entered the hull of the
sunken nuclear submarine Kursk on Wednesday, but could move only
about 15 feet in his bulky suit before being stopped by a narrow
passageway, a Russian news agency said.
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Jones says she posed nude to help sons & pay taxes
October 26, 2000
WASHINGTON (AP) - Every woman has a right to change her mind,
Paula Jones said, explaining why she agreed to pose nude for
Penthouse magazine after promising she would "never ... never" do
that for any men's magazine.
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Filipinos blast Estrada: resignation only way out of crisis
October 26, 2000
MANILA (AP) - As tens of thousands of Filipinos
marched demanding President Joseph Estrada step down, the vice
president said Wednesday that resignation is the only way to end the
"crisis of confidence" gripping the Philippines.
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Barak turns from peace efforts toward coalition
October 25, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli troops and Palestinians clashed in
rain-drenched streets Tuesday, while Israeli Prime Minister Ehud
Barak pressed ahead with negotiations to bring hawkish opposition
leader Ariel Sharon into a coalition government.
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Serbian parliament agrees on new government
October 25, 2000
BELGRADE (AP) - The Serbian parliament agreed Tuesday
to a new transition government to administer the main Yugoslav
republic until new elections in December.
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Demonstrators clash with police near border with West Bank
October 25, 2000
SOUTH SHUNA, Jordan (AP) - Under heavy rain, thousands of
Jordanians marched toward an Israeli-controlled border crossing
Tuesday, then clashed with police in fighting that injured more than
100 people and broke up the attempt to cross the frontier.
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Indian man fights 18 years to prove he's alive
October 25, 2000
LUCKNOW (AP) - Lal Behari threw leaflets into the state
legislature, ran in parliamentary elections, staged a kidnapping and
got himself arrested - all to prove he was, in fact, alive.
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Ivory Coast junta leader declares himself winner
October 25, 2000
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast (AP) - Junta leader Gen. Robert Guei
dissolved the commission overseeing Ivory Coast's presidential
elections and declared himself the winner, a senior Interior
Ministry official said Tuesday.
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Deployment of new missile hampered by lack of funds
October 25, 2000
MOSCOW (AP) - Lack of money has slowed deployment of Russia's
Topol-M intercontinental missile, the head of the Strategic Rocket
Forces said Tuesday.
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British report cites NATO's 'confusion of purpose'
October 25, 2000
LONDON (AP) - Saying that military conflicts are always "messy, dangerous and wholly unpredictable," a British report on last
year's NATO bombing campaign in Yugoslavia advised politicians to be
more realistic about what the alliance's military powers can
achieve.
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Two more papers ordered closed in Iran
October 25, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - Iran's hard-line judiciary has ordered two
more newspapers closed, bringing to three the number of papers shut
down this week, state-run Tehran radio reported Tuesday.
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Pakistan continues to be hostile toward India
October 24, 2000
SRINAGAR (AP) - India's defense minister said Monday there
was no letup in Pakistan's support to cross-border terrorism in
troubled Kashmir.
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Wartime compensation issue may surface with Clinton visit
October 24, 2000
HANOI (AP) - Wartime compensation over the lingering
effects of Agent Orange is likely to arise during U.S. President
Bill Clinton's visit to Vietnam next month, Vietnamese media
reported Monday.
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Barak opens talks with hawkish coalition
October 24, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Prime Minister Ehud Barak on Monday launched
talks with the hawkish opposition on the terms of joining his
teetering government - a move that, if successful, could freeze
Mideast peace negotiations for many months.
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Militants reinstate Hezb-ul Mujahedeen into their ranks
October 24, 2000
ISLAMABAD, (AP) - The guerrilla group, Hezb-ul
Mujahedeen, ostracized by fellow rebels after agreeing to a cease
fire with India, was returned Monday to the fold.
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'A renaissance for printed words' ends in success
October 24, 2000
FRANKFURT (AP) - The world largest book and publishing
convention offered a near record repertoire of more than 300,000
works this year, signaling a "renaissance for books," the show's
director said Monday.
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Suharto’s crony named suspect in new corruption case
October 24, 2000
JAKARTA (AP) - Prosecutors on Monday launched a second
corruption case against Mohamad "Bob" Hasan, a top business crony
of ex-dictator Suharto.
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3 blinded & 3 burned in acid attack in northern India
October 24, 2000
LUCKNOW (AP) - Armed with spears, machetes and acid, a
group of upper caste Hindus attacked six farmers fishing in a
village pond, blinding three of them and causing burn injuries to
three others, the victims said Monday.
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Tentative agreement in commercial actors' strike
October 24, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - Nearly six months into the longest talent strike
in Hollywood history, negotiators for actors and the advertising
industry have announced a tentative agreement on a new contract.
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It’s a game: Barak calls for 'timeout' in peace process
October 23, 2000
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told his
Cabinet on Sunday that Israel needed a "timeout" to re-evaluate
the tattered peace process, a move that would put on hold years of
negotiations with the Palestinians.
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Arabs denounce summit for failing to urge war against Israel
October 23, 2000
AMMAN (AP) - People across the Middle East condemned the
resolutions of an emergency Arab summit on Sunday, saying the
leaders failed to take firm action to punish Israel for excessive
use of force against the Palestinians.
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Christian group challenges separate electorate in court
October 23, 2000
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Charging discrimination, a Christian
organization filed a case in the Supreme Court which challenges
separate electorates for religious minorities in Muslim-majority
Pakistan, an official of the group said Sunday.
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No durable peace without Palestinian self-determination
October 23, 2000
TEHRAN (AP) - Iran said Sunday it supports a durable peace
based on justice but warned that no peace will be achieved until the
Palestinians are granted their basic rights.
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Tunisia ends low-level diplomatic ties with Israel
October 23, 2000
TUNIS (AP) - Tunisia has broken off its low-level
diplomatic ties with Israel in a show of protest against Israeli
violence toward Palestinians, the Foreign Ministry said.
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First visit by Yugoslav leader to Bosnia since independence
October 23, 2000
TREBINJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) - Yugoslav President
Vojislav Kostunica on Sunday made his first visit to Bosnia-Herzegovina that
strained political sensitivities in the country ahead of elections next month.
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Ivory Coast votes in elections to end military rule
October 23, 2000
ABIDJAN (AP) - Ten months after an army coup
shattered this nation's reputation for political tranquility and
brought a military government to power, Ivory Coast was voting
Sunday in presidential elections that the country's two largest
parties were boycotting.
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Five flood victims buried as state of emergency ends
October 23, 2000
ROME (AP) - A little mountain village in northern Italy
buried five victims of last week's devastating high water and
mudslides on Sunday, the day a state of emergency finally ran out.
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Arabs won't abandon peace amid Mideast violence
October 22, 2000
CAIRO (AP) - An Arab summit held amid outrage at violence
that has killed scores of Palestinians stopped short of calling for
breaking ties with Israel, according to Libyan delegates who walked
out of the meeting Saturday because they wanted strong action
against Israel.
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One infiltrator killed along Lebanon-Israel border
October 22, 2000
KIRYAT SHEMONA (AP) - A gunman trying to infiltrate Israel's
northern border with Lebanon died in an exchange of fire along the
frontier, the Israeli army said Saturday.
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North Korea welcomes European countries' decision
October 22, 2000
SEOUL (AP) - North Korea on Saturday welcomed
decisions by European nations to open diplomatic ties with the
communist state, its official news agency said.
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Greece asks NATO to cancel exercise
October 22, 2000
ATHENS (AP) - Greece's defense ministry on Saturday asked
NATO to cancel a major exercise in the region, after saying its
warplanes had been blocked by rival Turkey.
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Ebola death toll: - 51, experts identify more cases
October 22, 2000
KAMPALA (P) - The death toll from the outbreak of Ebola
in northern Uganda has risen to 51, officials said Saturday as
health workers continued to search for anyone who may have come into
contact with the deadly virus.
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McCartney gets noticed at VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards
October 22, 2000
NEW YORK (AP) - There were three stars who stole the show at VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards, and none were the hip, stylish celebrities that the music and fashion industry were there to honor.
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VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards winners
October 22, 2000
UNDATED (AP) - Winners at the 2000 VH1/Vogue Fashion Awards on Friday night:
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U.N. condemns Israeli ''excessive use of force''
October 21, 2000
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a third U.N. admonition of Israel, the General Assembly voted Friday to condemn the ``excessive use of force'' by Israeli troops against Palestinians and called for a truce and resumption of peace talks.
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