Russian Soyuz docks with Mir station crew
A Soyuz rocket from Baikonur docked with the Mir space station carrying three crew members Ulf Merbold of the European Space Agency engineer Yelena Kondakova and commander Alexander Viktorenko. They aim to extend space endurance and include Kondakova, a Russian engineer, in potential records.
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Heroic bey sparks organ donations in Italy
Italians praised a California couple who donated the organs of their son after he was fatally shot by highway bandits. The head of the national organ donor network said inquiries rose fivefold to about 70 a day. Pier Gentano Dellan, director of the Italian Organ Donor Assn, noted many calls from southern Italy and Sicily about Nicholas Green of Bodega Bay, California.
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Italy
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Armenia joins NATO program despite Nagorno Karabakh standoff
Armenian Foreign Minister Vagan Papazian said in Brussels that Armenia would join NATO’s Partnership for Peace as the 23rd nation to participate, a move aimed at stabilizing the Caucasus. He specified NATO would not play a direct role in Armenia’s six year war with Azerbaijan over Nagorno Karabakh.
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Vagan Papazian
Brussels
Belgium
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Nagorno- Karabakh
Stop Mailing Dead Rats in India Labs Ordered
Health officials in India were ordered to stop mailing dead rats to a post office in Parel Bombay after residents complained the parcels posed health risks amid a pneumonic plague outbreak. The epidemic began in Surat on Sept 20 and has killed at least 61 people. antibiotics can cure if treated early.
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India
Parel
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Ramesh Abale
Surat
World Bank backs girls education to lift developing nations
The World Bank promotes educating girls as a path out of poverty. About 40 percent of its roughly $2 billion yearly education spend targets girls programs, up from under 15 percent in the 1980s. Officials cite lower infant mortality, smaller families, and healthier children as outcomes.
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Serbs and Bosnian government swap prisoners at Sarajevo bridge
In a major prisoner exchange at Sarajevo's Brotherhood and Unity bridge, 295 prisoners were released amid a dawn operation after a near 10 hour delay. 129 by government forces and 166 by Bosnian Serbs. UN aid experts warned of Serb retaliation as NATO moves to escalate air strikes and Sarajevo airport readiness to reopen.
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Aftershocks Hit Kuril Islands After 8.2 Quake
Dozens of strong aftershocks rocked the Kuril islands as rescuers set up tent villages for earthquake homeless. Evacuations to the mainland were planned for children while rain and wind hinder relief. A rescue plane dropped clothes and food as scientists warned quakes would continue for days after the Tuesday 8.2 magnitude event with waves up to nine feet.
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Russia
Kuril Islands
Mexican witness alleges wider assassination plot
A witness in the Mexico City case claims a fugitive congressman planned broader killings. The list included the Tamaulipas governor, a congresswoman, and the attorney general’s office said the suspect sought to seize power by eliminating rivals.
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Jose Francisco Ruiz Massieu
Institutional Revolutionary Party
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Daniel Aguilar Trevino
Ruiz Massieu
Maria Eugenia Ramirez Arauz
Manuel Munoz Rocha
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Manuel Cavazos Lerma
U.N. monitors Iraq as CIA cites evasion and tunnels
The United Nations builds a wide monitoring system with cameras sensors and overflights to detect Iraqi nuclear chemical or biological programs. The CIA warns Iraq is evading scrutiny by hiding missiles and a biological weapons program and by constructing deep tunnels. Rolf Ekens is to report mid October that monitoring is operational. Charles Duelfer notes U-2 photos will cover missile ranges and potential weapons sites. The U.S. intelligence community remains concerned the regime is hiding Scud missiles chemical munitions and its entire biological weapons program.
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Iraq
Rolf Ekens
Charles Duelfer
U.N. Special Commission On
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Germany
Duelfer
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