Cult members travel to Israel amid doomsday predictions
Ten members of a Colorado doomsday group the Concerned Christians have traveled to Israel. Leader Monte Kim Miller predicts he will die in Jerusalem in December 1999 and be resurrected three days later. Police say no immediate threat and monitor the pilgrims.
Chinese leaders meet in Moscow to boost trade ties
Jiang Zemin traveled to Moscow for an informal summit with Boris Yeltsin focusing on expanding cooperation amid lagging trade. Trade dipped 10 percent to 6.1 billion last year. both aim to reach 20 billion by 2000. World Health Organization chief Brundtland warned tobacco poses a major health threat with 3.5 million deaths this year.
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Clinton visits Haiti hospitals to pledge relief aid
Hillary Rodham Clinton toured Bienfaisance Hospital in Pignon Haiti praising local midwives and highlighting U S health care aid as part of a broader hurricane relief push The visit supported a $2.1 million addition to a $12 million storm relief package and a $1 million pilot medical education program financed with Soros Foundation backing involving the University of Miami and Bienfaisance Hospital
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Suspected killer in 52 deaths faces trial today
Kiev AP report notes Anatoly Onopriienko, a forester and sailor, faces trial on 52 murder charges for a spree across central and western Ukraine from December 1995 to March 1996. The killer struck homes at night, looting jewelry and setting houses ablaze, prompting a nation wide manhunt and eventual confession.
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Kwame Ture remembered at Guinea funeral in tribute rally
Radical leftists and African unity advocates paid homage at the funeral of Kwame Ture, the 1960s firebrand who popularized Black Power. Died at 57 from prostate cancer after moving to Guinea in 1968, his life spanning nonviolence to armed rhetoric and pan African calls. About 400 attendees, including Libyan and Cuban diplomats, heard speakers praise his lifelong struggle and revolutionary motto Ready for the revolution. His son Bocar cried as he was buried in a public cemetery.
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