Miss World pageant goes ahead amid protests in Bangalore
Protesters clash with police as tear gas and rubber bullets fly near the Miss World finals in a Bangalore stadium. Miss Greece Irene Skliva wins as over 9 000 security forces guard the event and 1 650 people are detained in a wide protest crackdown.
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Hijacked Ethiopian airliner crashes off Comoros coast
A Boeing 767 carrying 175 people hijacked from Addis Ababa ran out of fuel and crashed into the Indian Ocean near Moroni Comoros Islands. At least 55 dead and 16 injured, with 30 survivors reported. authorities faced rough seas and nightfall as divers searched for victims and survivors.
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Yeltsin Holds Meeting with Kazakh President After Surgery
President Boris Yeltsin, back at work after heart surgery, met for 20 minutes with Kazakhstan’s Nursultan Nazarbayev at Barvikha near Moscow. They discussed economic cooperation among former Soviet states, gas field development, and a CIS anniversary summit in Moscow in January.
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