Former French diplomat Roland Dumas convicted of corruption
Roland Dumas, 78, once a Resistance fighter and top diplomat in Mitterrand's circle, was found guilty of receiving illegal Elf Aquitaine funds during 1989 to 1992 as foreign minister. He received six months in prison, a two year suspended sentence, and a fine over 130 thousand dollars. His ex-mistress Christine Deviers-Joncourt, alleged to have earned 9 million from Elf as a lobbyist, was sentenced to three years with 18 months suspended and fined about 195,570 dollars.
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France
Roland Dumas
Francois Mitterrand
Elf Aquitaine
Dumas
Christine Deviers-Joncourt
Elf
Africa faces child labor crisis with millions at risk
Delegates at the Pan-African Forum in Cairo warn that about eighty million African children aged five to fourteen are forced to work, including prostitution and mining, with estimates rising to one hundred million by 2015. Tim De Meyer of the ILO urges a common African stance for a UN General Assembly session in September as nations struggle to track trafficking.
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Africa
Tim de Meyer
International Labor Organization
U.N
de Meyer
Cairo
U.N. General Assembly
Indonesian president faces ouster amid parliament rift
Indonesia’s parliament voted 365 to 4 to push ahead with President Abdurrahman Wahid’s dismissal, triggering a special session of the People’s Consultative Assembly. About 1,000 Wahid supporters clashed with riot police outside the parliament as the crisis threatens economic stability.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Abdurrahman Wahid
People’s Consultative Assembly
Wahid
Bomb outside Netanya high school wounds several
A car bomb exploded in front of Ort technical high school in Netanya injuring six people with shock and hearing problems. The Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility as U S backed efforts to quell eight months of Israeli Palestinian violence faced renewed security talks in Gaza.
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Netanya
Israel
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U.S
Gaza
Abdel Razek el- Majaidah
Defense Ministry
Germany approves 4.4 billion in WWII slave labor payments
Berlin cleared the way for compensation of 1.2 million surviving slave laborers from the Nazi era. Checks up to 6600 will be mailed starting in June from a fund built by German business and the government after years of delays and legal action. Otto Graf Lambsdorff called it a moral end to a dark chapter while acknowledging not all victims will be alive to receive it.
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Gerhard Schroeder
Jerzy Buzek
Poland
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New York
Germany
Daimler-Benz
BMW
Volkswagen
United States
Israel
Otto Graf Lambsdorff
IRA weapons dumps remain safely stored inspectors say
Foreign inspectors revisited IRA weapons dumps in Northern Ireland finding armaments are safely and adequately stored. The joint statement by Britain and Ireland said the stores are only a fraction of the IRA arsenal and remain detectable if used. Prime Minister Trimble vows to resign if disarmament does not proceed by July.
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Ireland
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Northern Ireland
David Trimble
Sinn Fein
IRA
Martti Ahtisaari
Finland
Cyril Ramaphosa
South Africa
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Sarah Blaustein
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