Kidnapped aid workers freed by Somalia tribe
Five foreign aid workers abducted by militiamen in northeast Somalia were released unharmed and are in good health at the relief agency’s Bossasso office. The group includes one EU employee, two Kenyans, an Indian, and a Canadian. The abduction followed a dispute over coal exports between tribal clans Wasangeli and Marjeteen.
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Somalia
Agostino Paganini
U.N. Children’s Fund
Associated Press
European Union
Bossasso
Theuropean Union
Independent
Republic of
Somaliland
Mother returns home as septuplet babies gain strength
Joel Steven McCaughey, youngest of Iowa's septuplets, leaps to breathe without a machine joining Kenneth Robert as both show improving condition. The family, including mother Bobbi McCaughey, returns home after a month amid ongoing media attention.
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Carlisle
Iowa
Joel Stevens McCaughey
Kenneth
Bobbi McCaughey
Joel Steven
Kenneth Robert
Blank Children’s Hospital
Robert Shaw
Peg Hepworth
APEC Leaders Seek Calm Amid Asian Economy Turmoil
Clinton and Pacific Rim leaders convene as Asia faces fresh financial turmoil. Ramos urges realism while Mahathir pushes curbs on currency traders. Leaders back a Manila plan for IMF backed aid paired with strict austerity, as US pledges additional funds in past crisis references.
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Vancouver
British Columbia
Asia
Clinton
Pacific Rim
Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum
Philippines
Fidel Ramos
Mahathir Mohamad
Malaysia
Manila
IMF
Japan’s Yamaichi Securities closes amid market turmoil
Japan calls for calm as Yamaichi Securities shuts after a century of operation. The firm, once the top broker and key underwriter, leaves about $24 billion in liabilities and follows a wave of financial failures in a troubled economy. President Shohei Nozawa fought tears at a Tokyo Stock Exchange news conference as stock prices slid and confidence waned.
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Tokyo
Japan
Yamaichi Securities
Yamaichi
Shohei Nozawa
Tokyo Stock Exchange
Astronauts Prepare Daring Shuttle Rescue of Satellite
NASA plans a risky spacewalk to save the 3,000 pound Spartan satellite. Two astronauts Winston Scott and Takao Doi will dangle from the shuttle Columbia in the open cargo bay to grab the spinning satellite as mission control cites very small collision risk.
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Space Center
Houston
NASA
Bob Castle
Winston Scott
Takao Doi
National border drug war seen as failure by policy chiefs
National roundup reports a Clinton era memo by Franklin Kinney faulting US efforts to curb cross border drug smuggling from Mexico. The memo urges sharper intelligence and high tech screening as border overrun risk grows, per The Arizona Republic.
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Phoenix
Clinton Administration
Southwest
Mexico
Francis X. Kinney
Office of National Drug Control Policy
Arizona Republic
Kinney
United States
The
Republic
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Information on office hours switchboard and staff extensions for the Aiken Standard. Includes subscription rates for home delivery, county and other mail, and delivery problem contact times.
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Scott B. Hunter
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