Taiwan Assembly Violence Flare Injures Deputies in Clash
In the National Assembly on Monday rival deputies clashed during a confirmation hearing for a top government official. Two opposition lawmakers were hospitalized with minor injuries after ruling Nationalist members attacked Lai Ching-teh of the Democratic Progressive Party who accused Hsu Shui-teh of reneging on a pledge to curb vote buying by KMT candidates.
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Lai Ching-teh
Democratic Progressive Party
Lai
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Cab ride to Canada from Los Angeles ends in Victoria
Pat Fry a 68 year old Pasadena retiree bored with life took a taxi from suburban Los Angeles to Santa Barbara then kept driving through Oregon Washington to Vancouver and Victoria. The 1860 mile trip cost over 3500 dollars with driver Steve Baird. The pair returned by ferry from Victoria to Port Angeles Washington.
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Pat Fry
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Santa Barbara
Pasadena
Canada
Steve Baird
Oregon
Washington
Vancouver
Victoria
Baird
Fry
Port Angeles
Wash
Drenching water plane injures ten during coastal ceremony
A firefighting plane dumped nearly five tons of water on the Madonna of Ship wrecks ceremony off Villasimus in Sardinia injuring ten people as boats were overturned and divers laid a wreath at the statue. Police search for the pilot after a second pass drenched the flotilla.
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Sardinia
Villasimus
Coast Guard
Nicola Silenti
Australia Handbook warns crocodile handlers
A Queensland Workplace Health and Safety guide for the crocodile industry warns handlers about unsafe acts. It advises not to insert any body part into a crocodile’s mouth and not to sit on a crocodile. The publication notes prior lack of guidelines despite 17 game farms and parks operating in the state.
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Queensland
Bomb at Lahore airport kills nine injures many
An explosive device hidden in a briefcase detonated at Lahore International Airport injuring at least twenty and killing nine. Police say it targeted the main departure area near a telephone booth as international and domestic flights operated. The blast follows a wave of attacks in Punjab with no claim of responsibility and amid tensions between Pakistan and India.
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Lahore
Pakistan
Punjab
Faza Abdullah
Sargodha
Gujranwala
Benazir Bhutto
India
Wasi Zafar
Home Ministry
Ing
Zafar
Pakistan International Airlines
Karachi
Britain
Bosnian army receives first U S arms shipment for federation
A small unmarked plane landed in Sarajevo delivering the first consignment of weapons from Turkey as part of a broad U.S. plan to arm and train Bosnian federation forces. The cargo, monitored by French NATO troops, is valued within a $400 million effort drawing support from Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and others. U.S. envoy James Pardew noted coordination but did not disclose quantities.
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Bosnia-Herzegovina
U.S
Istanbul
Turkey
Bosnia
James Pardew
Washington
United States
Saudi Arabia
Malaysia
Kuwait
United Arab Emirates
Brunei
Pardew
Bangladesh parliament to elect president unopposed
The Awami League nominated Shahabuddin Ahmed, a former justice and interim president after Ershad fall, to be Bangladesh's next ceremonial head. With nominations closed, Ahmed faces no opposition and is expected to win by Parliament’s 330 members on Wednesday.
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Dhaka
Bangladesh
Shahabuddin Ahmed
Supreme Court
Hussain Muhammad Ershad
Awami League
Sheikh Hasina
Ahmed
Election Commission
E coli outbreak widens in Japan with fifth Kyoto death
An E coli 0157 outbreak spread from western Japan to Kyoto where a 56 year old electronics worker died. Fourty two more employees at the Kyoto firm reported illness as health officials investigate cafeteria food. National toll tops 8200 with Sakai near Kyoto housing 478 hospitalized children.
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Japan
Kyoto
National Health Ministry
Sakai
Yokohama
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