Gov't envoy meets Colombian rebel leader to push talks
Gov't peace envoy Camilo Gomez met Manuel Marulanda, head of FARC, for six hours in Bogota to revive negotiations ending Colombia's 36 year conflict. No breakthroughs reported. They plan another meeting before December 7 to decide on returning territory ceded to FARC two years ago to spur peace talks.
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Barak defends crisis handling amid Middle East turmoil
Prime Minister Ehud Barak, facing Israeli and Palestinian critics, argues that a political settlement remains the only path out of decades of conflict. In a TV interview ahead of spring elections, he accuses Palestinians of provoking the violence that has killed nearly 300 people in two months and asserts firmness in the struggle.
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Ehud Barak
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Yugoslav Banker Traces $1 Billion Abroad
Yugoslavia's National Bank Governor Mladjan Dinkic says the $1 billion moved abroad during Milosevic's era is traced to Cyprus and other nations. An international bureau reportedly identified the transfers and offered help to recover the funds for Serbia's new authorities.
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Dinkic
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Brazil drought spurs landless workers to loot food on highway
In Sergipe state drought battered region, hundreds of Landless Rural Workers' Movement protesters blocked roads near Poco Redondo using tractors and barricades. Police say they seized about 3700 dollars worth of crackers and pasta from a truck, threatening the driver with machetes as 2000 families live in roadside squatters' camps.
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Brazil
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Poco Redondo
Antonio Nery Fonseca
Fonseca
Fox faces Oaxaca protest as he pledges aid to the poor
In Oaxaca a crowd of about 10 000 teachers laborers and Indian farmers demanded justice from Vicente Fox who vowed to focus development on poor southern states and to improve education health and human rights. Fox met protest leaders and urged peaceful action.
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Oaxaca
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Donors back Bush transition amid recount fight
Donors across parties continue funding Bush and Gore as the 2000 election drags into overtime. E Floyd Kramme has given $145,000 to Bush and the campaign, the party, and the Florida recount. Alan Solomont says he has supported Gore for years, while Sam Fox backs Bush with at least $100,000 in contributions and $585,000 in soft money. Democrats rally funds for Gore’s recount effort, raising about $3 million quickly.
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Entertainment News: Turlington Diagnosed With Emphysema
London AP reports model Christy Turlington who stars in anti smoking ads has early stage emphysema after a New York lung scan. She smoked up to a pack daily from ages 13 to 26 with a two year break and notes permanent damage from smoking.
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London
Christy Turlington
Times
New York
Hepatitis C crisis spurs state health summit in Columbia
South Carolina faces a rising hepatitis C challenge with an estimated 50 000 to 70 000 infections. Dr Robert Ball calls it the next AIDS epidemic as officials urge improved programs and new interferon therapies showing 50 percent effectiveness in trials.
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Robert Ball
South Carolina
James Strohecker
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Turkey's cells offer no haven against torture
In Sincan and across Turkey, new maximum security cells are praised by officials as hotel like yet condemned by inmates as coffins. About 800 prisoners in 14 prisons have staged a hunger strike for 50 days to stop transfers to the new cell blocks and protect their old wards from alleged torture. A hunger strike escalated with 138 prisoners entering a death fast, while authorities press ahead with dismantling the old system.
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Sincan
Turkey
Justice
Hikmet Sami Turk
Kamil Karatas
Inside Sincan Prison One Man Cells and Overcrowding
A cameraman films within Sincan prison’s new one man cells where 100 inmates share cramped wards officials say. Authorities admit ward independence by leftist, Islamic, and Kurd groups, with phones smuggled in and hostage risks rising. Prisoners fear isolation will worsen abuse, as rights groups warn of torture in Turkish prisons.
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