Poisoned wine sent to priests in Colombia church packages
In central Colombia officials found cyanide-laced wine in Easter gift packages sent to 12 churches. A priest and a woman died after drinking the wine in Villavicencio, while two others fell ill in Sibate. Police warn of possible Satanic cult links or criminal motives.
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Colombia
Luis Enrique Montenegro
Radionet Radio
Jesus David Saenz
Marina Rojas
Villavicencio
Sibate
Cosmonauts discard engine during space walk at station
Russian cosmonauts conducted the first of three space walks to service the aging space station. They spent over six hours along a 46 foot girder detaching a spent thruster and pushing it away from the craft while inspecting a faulty valve. Captain Talgat Musabayev commented on the work.
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Fenway
Boston
Fenway Park
Boston Red Sox
Red Sox
John Fitzgerald
Scituate
Diana's memory cited as overexploited by Britons
A Daily Telegraph Gallup poll shows 90 percent of Britons say Princess Diana's memory is exploited and 80 percent believe her image is used in bad taste. Ninety four percent criticize the use of the princess's memorial charity logo on a margarine container.
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Diana
London
Gallup
Daily Telegraph
Egypt bans Arabic daily over minority critique
Cairo authorities confiscated an international Arabic daily after a Suleiman Neguib article in Al Hayat condemned minority rights conditions in the Arab world. Egyptian Christians abroad accuse religious persecution, a claim tied to Egypt's 10 percent Christian minority amid a Muslim majority of about 63 million.
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Cairo
Suleiman Neguib
al- Hayat
Protestant divisions threaten peace accord in Northern Ireland
In Belfast the Ulster Unionist Party backs the peace accord by a 55 to 23 vote, while hardliners shout traitor outside party HQ. David Trimble faces internal dissent as the agreement, reached with eight parties including Sinn Fein, requires NI cooperation with the Irish government and a May 22 referendum. Dissidents warn of political standoff ahead of a crucial council vote.
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Northern Ireland
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David Trimble
Ulster Unionist
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Goa
Sinn Fein
Ireland
Ulster Unionist Council
Britain
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William Thompson
West Tyrone
IRA
Tan Paisley
Democratic Unionists
Karadzic wife denies surrender plans
Ljiljana Zelen Karadzic says Radovan Karadzic will never willingly surrender to face war crimes charges at The Hague. She warns that forced arrest could implicate Western leaders and US pressure, amid reports he sought assurances on serving a term in Orthodox countries. United Nations tribunal indicts him for genocide over the Bosnian war deaths.
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Yugoslavia
Radovan Karadzic
Bosnia
Ljiljana Zelen-Karadzic
SANA
Washington Post
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Hague
Netherlands
NATO
3RNA
Zelen Karadzier
United States
Karadzie
SRNA
Senate panel to focus on IRS criminal powers
Senate Finance Committee will review a TRAC study showing higher per capita IRS criminal prosecutions in small cities like Pensacola Greensboro Memphis and Charleston and hear reports of alleged rights abuses by IRS agents in criminal tax cases ahead of the April 15 deadline. Researchers from UCLA report cancer cell resistance links to vault particles affecting drug effectiveness.
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Internal Revenue Service
Senate Finance Committee
IRS
Senate
Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse
TRAC
Pensacola
Fla
Greensboro
N.C
Memphis
Los Angeles
Valerie A. Kickhoefer
University of California, Los Angeles
Leonard H. Rome
Ucla School of Medicine
Journal of Biological Chemistry
Rubella warning for Easter travelers to Mexican border
Texas health officials warn Easter travelers especially pregnant women about a rubella outbreak in northern Mexico near Tamaulipas and Reynosa. Rubella can harm fetuses, causing birth defects. about 900 cases reported since January 1 in Reynosa across the border from McAllen.
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Texas
Mexico
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Reynosa
Tamaulipas
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