Tibetan nun Ngawang Sangdrol leaves China for United States
Ngawang Sangdrol, China's longest serving female political prisoner, departed for the United States on Friday with a U.S. diplomat. The 15 year old activist was imprisoned in 1992 for protests in Tibet and paroled in October. She and 13 other nuns were known as the singing nuns after a tape of their songs leaked from Drapchi Prison. Activists say sentences were extended due to the tape.
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Body of former Serbian president found near Belgrade
Police uncovered the remains of Ivan Stambolic, a former Serbian president, shooting accusations pointing at the same elite unit alleged in Zoran Djindjic’s assassination. Stambolic had been missing about three years and was discovered in a lime-covered pit on a northern Serbian mountain after a double gunshot. Police seek to question Slobodan Milosevic, now on war crimes trial, about the case. Milosevic and Stambolic were bitter rivals, and it is believed Milosevic had Stambolic ousted in the October 2000 presidential election prior to Milosevic’s downfall.
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Nigeria Orders Arrests in Niger Delta Militants Clash
President Obasanjo ordered the arrest of ethnic militants in the Niger Delta as violence claimed over 100 lives and shut in oil production. Ijaw leaders warned of disrupting next month’s elections and burning oil installations in retaliation for arrests. Obasanjo said cooperation with police, army, and navy aimed to calm the region and punish those who killed soldiers and sailors. The move followed talks with Itsekiri women in Abuja seeking an end to clashes in the swampy waterways.
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Four U.N. workers abducted in Liberia near Ivory Coast border
Gunmen in Liberia abducted four Liberian U.N. World Food Program workers at Zwedru near the Ivory Coast border, with other aid staff taken as fighting rages between government troops and rebels. The region has seen multiple aid-worker killings this year amid border-area violence. A refugee camp at Zwedru houses about 6,000 people displaced by Liberia and Ivory Coast strife.
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Passengers exit Turkish Airlines plane hijack in Greece
Passengers began leaving the Airbus A310 after a five hour hijack of 204 aboard including 196 passengers and eight crew. The hijacker Ozgur Gencarslan, 20, claimed explosives and cited family grievances as motive. Greek authorities negotiated as F16s were circulated but not deployed.
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Health officials warn SARS crisis grows in Asia
Hong Kong reports 58 new SARS cases as quarantines and school closures expand. Singapore doubles quarantined contact lists with 1,500 now confined at home. Hong Kong confirms 11 deaths and over 400 sick. global totals exceed 1,400 cases and over 50 deaths. Rolling Stones postpone Shanghai and Beijing shows. Singapore warns tourism will be hit hard.
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