Asia Europe summit seeks trade ties and rights debate
The Bangkok meeting brings 15 EU nations and 10 Asian economies to discuss slashing trade barriers and boosting investment. Officials push for stronger political and security links while debating a rights passage for the final declaration, highlighting Europe’s rush to match U.S. Asia involvement.
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Russia blocks fuel deliveries to eastern Siberia bases
Russian railroad officials halt fuel and all deliveries to military bases in the Trans-Baikal Military District to press debt payments, risking an energy crisis as bases, hospitals, living quarters, and schools face fuel shortages within a week. Meanwhile France expels 65 Zairians to stem illegal immigration, with the charter flight leaving Paris for Kinshasa.
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Peru jet crash Kills 123 on Arequipa Route
A Faucett Air lines jet bound for Tacna crashed near Arequipa Peru killing 123 passengers including 51 foreigners and two Americans. Firemen lined the hillside where bodies were found amid scattered wreckage as distraught relatives gathered at the morgue and airport. Investigators found the flight data recorders and planned analysis before stating a cause.
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Israel rejects militants offer to negotiate truce
Israeli leaders demand Arafat disarm Hamas and crack down on terrorism. Palestinian authorities set a midnight deadline to relinquish illegal arms, vowing action after. Barak approves 800 new security guards for buses at a cost of 13.3 million dollars as Hamas offers a temporary halt to attacks. Peres warns of possible delay to the Hebron troop pullback if Arafat fails to rein in extremists.
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Russia Unable to Identify 216 Chechnya Dead
Moskovsky Komsomolets reported 216 Russian soldiers killed in Chechnya have lay in Rostov on Don morgue for over a year due to lack of funds for identification tests. Mothers of the missing accuse the military of blasphemy, urging bodies to be identified or returned.
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