Cargo ship launches to Mir with lemons and supplies
Progress M-39 unmanned cargo ship lifted off from Baikonur at 2 13 a m Moscow time carrying 1 5 tons of fuel water and other provisions plus mail from relatives of Mir cosmonauts Talgat Musabayev and Nikolai Budarin and NASA's Andrew Thomas. It aims to dock Sunday and begin engine firings next month to lower Mir's orbit ahead of decommissioning around late 1999.
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Kazakstan
Moscow
Baikonur Cosmodrome
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Vera Medvedkova
Talgat Musabayev
Nikolai Budarin
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Andrew Thomas
Virtue Party selects moderate leader and women on board in Turkey
The Virtue Party nominates Recai Kutan a former energy minister as its head and appoints three women to its board in a move to project moderation while Turkey's pro secular military establishment is kept at bay. The party's convention, held after Welfare Party was closed for violating secular state laws, shows no slogans for Islamic law though the venue remains segregated by gender in Islamic dress.
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New Islamic Party
Virtue Party
Recai Kutan
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Welfare Party
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Constitutional Court
Evacuation orders issued as rains raise landslide fear in Italy
In Quindici and nearby towns authorities evacuated amid renewed heavy rain and hardened mud after last week's deadly mudslides that killed 148 and left 130 feared buried. About 1,000 residents near Mount Sarno and other communities stood by for potential orders as rescuers searched mud for victims. Separately, Russian miners blocked the Trans-Siberian railway in protests over overdue wages, affecting dozens of mines and trains and prompting worker shutdowns in Russia and Ukraine.
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Trans-Siberian Railway
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Ukraine
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Anzhero-Sudzhensk
Arafat faces choice as Palestinians weigh next move
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat confronts a tense dilemma as Israel rebuffs U S demands for major West Bank troop withdrawal and the United States wavers in mediating a path to statehood. With elections looming in 2000 and pressure from Islamic militants, Arafat risks renewed clashes or delayed peace. At the same time, mass protests marking Nakba raise regional tensions amid deadly clashes.
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