Ecuador Indians occupy empty Congress building
Hundreds of Indian protesters breached barriers and seized the Congress building in Quito demanding the resignation of all three government branches. President Mahuad refused to resign as the armed forces later called for his removal to prevent a social explosion.
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Quito
Ecuador
Congress
Armed Forces High Command
Jamil Mahuad
Mahuad
Vladimiro Alvarez
Supreme Court
Digging ends in Juarez prompts questions lingering from case
In Juarez the two month joint Mexican FBI probe ended with nine bodies found and a drug lab, leaving experts and officials debating over inflated hopes of 100 missing people, while tourism and investment suffer and the search for the rest continues. The Mexican attorney general and FBI officials dispute inflated figures, but authorities acknowledge 100 to 200 missing, with seven bodies identified and five suspects detained.
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Ciudad Juarez
Mexico
la Campana Ranch
U.S
Juarez
Jorge Madrazo
FBI
el Paso
Texas
John Amastae
Center For Inter-American and Border Studies
University of Texas-El Paso
Organized Crime
Jose Larrieta Carrasco
Associated Press
Madrazo
Jim Davis
Louis Freeh
Clinton
Ciudad
Juarez Drug Organization
Elizardo
Carrillo Fuentes
Guadalupe Ramirez
Chihuahua
State Committee For the Defense of’ Human Rights
Chinese scientist questions link between dinosaurs and birds
Beijing paleontologist Xu Xing asserts the Archaeoraptor fossil is a composite of two species, not a single transitional dinosaur. He cites a private fossil mirroring the tail and cautions smuggling and misassembly have misled researchers. The case fuels debate on provenance and birds evolving from dinosaurs.
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Beijing
Xu Xing
China
National Geographic Society
Archaeoraptor
New National Geographic Magazine
Barbara Moffet
Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology
Stephen Czerkas
Utah
Czerkas
Sylvia
Dinosaur Museum
Blanding
Liaoning Province
Guangdong
Xinhua
Abduction Ties to Cult Leader Amid Tokyo Case
Intruders believed to be Aum Shinri Kyo followers abducted the 7-year-old son of former guru Shoko Asahara. They assaulted facility staff in Asahimura, 60 miles northeast of Tokyo, and fled by car as police searched for the boy and Nagayama’s alleged accomplices. Police raided 16 cult sites nationwide for forged registration papers amid pressure to disband.
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Tokyo
Shoko Asahara
Aum
Shinri Kyo
Asahimura
TBS TV
Satoshi Nagayama
Kyodo News Service
Nagayama
Asahara
Aum Shinri Kyo
Japan
Ex-fighters free over 400 child soldiers in Sierra Leone
Aid officials and West African peacekeepers report that former rebels of the RUF and junta soldiers of the AFRC released more than 400 child soldiers this week. About 300 boys aged 7 to 18 were sent to Caritas in Port Loko for care and counseling, with 100 more arriving in Freetown.
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Freetown
Sierra Leone
Revolutionary United Front
Armed Forces Revolutionary Council
AFRC
Kabala
Caritas
Ibrahim Sesay
U.N
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Louis Tale
Hammond City Council
Hammond 2020 Commission
Southeastern Louisiana University
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N. General Pershing St. Hammond, Louisiana
Phil Livingston
Louis Tallo
OAK Forest Academy
Lydia Ellen Cutter
Louisiana State University
Ellen
FCA
Interact
OFA
LSU
Ramona Cutrer
Lydia Ellen Cutrer
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