Icon stolen from Kazan cathedral in jeweled frame
A famous 19th century Kazan Mother icon in a jeweled frame was stolen from St. Nicholas Cathedral in Kazan. ITAR TASS says the pair, valued at $500,000, likely disappeared last week. the frame was made by Peter Faberge, a jeweler to the imperial family, and the original icon copy traces to Ivan the Terrible’s 16th century seizure of Kazan.
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St. Nicholas
Itar‘tass
Peter Faberge
Ivan the Terrible
Moscow
Vatican approves beatification of Fatima seers Giacinta and Francisco Marto
The Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints approved a miracle attributed to the intercession of Giacinta and Francisco Marto, two of the three children who saw the 1917 Fatima apparition, clearing the way for beatification. Francisco died at 10 in 1919 and Giacinta died at 9 in 1920. Sister Lucia, the third child, remains living in a Portuguese convent.
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Vatican
Fatima
Portugal
Congregation For the Cause of Saints
Giacinta
Francisco Marto
Lucia
Hardliners stumble in Israel amid Barak coalition push
In Jerusalem on Monday the Likud party refused to join Barak's emerging government, cooling hopes for a broad coalition. Barak urged a Meretz Shas alliance to form a conciliatory cabinet, while Sharon announced a five minute meeting and halted talks over settlement expansion and Golan Heights concessions.
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Likud
Ehud Barak
Barak
Israel
Lebanon
Syria
Meretz
Shas
Knesset
Yitzhak Rabin
Ariel Sharon
Sharon
Golan Heights
AP Proto Israel
Center
Kosovo Refugee Return Under UN NATO Lockup Hopes
Ethnic Albanian rebels turned in weapons as NATO secured them, while the UN began staged returns of Kosovo refugees. The first convoy carried 335 people amid widespread destruction. Serb displacement rose. violence continued with arson in Pristina and a cautious Russian troop deployment to support rebuilding and stabilization efforts.
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Yugoslavia
Kosovo
NATO
United Nations
Shpresa Mirena
Kosovo Liberation Army
KLA
Russia
Moscow
Itar-Tass
Paula Biocca
U.N. World Food Program
Artemije Radosavljevic
Stenkovec
Macedonia
Exhumation to Start for Mass Kosovo River Slaughter Victims
British forensic experts begin preparations to dig up more than 60 men buried along the Belas River near Bela Crkva Kosovo after a March 25 massacre. Survivors recount Serb police separating men, searching pockets, and shooting victims beneath the Savior Bridge.
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Yugoslavia
Belas
Kosovo
Isuf Zhuniqi
Zhuriqi
Ank
Valon Fetushi
Fetushi
Albania
Zhuniqi
Palestinian Authority urged to overhaul for democracy reforms
A U S task force in Ramallah calls for sweeping changes in the Palestinian Authority to curb power concentration, create a stronger legislature and judiciary, and establish a civilian police overseen by the Legislative Council. It urges abolition of state security courts and notes past rights concerns amid praise for recent cabinet and service delivery gains.
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West Bank
Tas
Yasser Arafat
Palestinian Authority
Council On Foreign Relations
Arafat
Henry Siegman
Siegman
Secu
Legislative Council
South Africa hit by new crime wave at Fourways Crossing
Gunmen opened fire on an armored truck at Fourways Crossing in a north Johannesburg shopping area wounding a guard as shoppers ducked for cover. A separate Johannesburg township rape and stabbing left a 14 year old girl dead, prompting opposition calls for death penalty revival, which Mbeki has ruled out.
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South Africa
Fourways Crossing
Thabo Mbeki
Nelson Mandela
Cape Town
New National Party
Roy Geldenhuys
Mbeki
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