Haitis Boat People Return as Coast Guard Intercepts
U S Coast Guard cutters brought about 400 Haitian migrants back to halt after being found adrift near Florida. A private fishing boat spotted the crowded wooden craft Sunday and alerted authorities. The vessel lay 25 miles from Key Largo as passengers refused to disclose passage costs, which range from five hundred to one thousand dollars.
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Florida
Coast Guard
Key Largo
America
Caribbean
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Strangeways to Change Locks After Key Video Emerges
High security Manchester prison will replace all cell locks after a video used to introduce new inmates showed close-ups of prison keys. Officials fear the footage could be paused to copy keys and enable escapes. No related security problems have occurred since.
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Her Majesty’s Prison
Strangeways
Libya asks Arabs to ignore sanctions over Lockerbie case
Libya urged Arab League members to overlook United Nations sanctions as it accepted a plan to hand over suspects in the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing. The request was made ahead of Cairo talks and cites a Dutch trial by Scottish judges for two Libyans.
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Pan Am
Egypt
Middle East
Arab League
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MENA
Netherlands
Lockerbie
Scotland
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Muammar Gaddafi
Organization of African Unity
Albania tensions ease after tanks surrendered in Tirana
Former President Sali Berisha agreed to hand over two tanks outside his Democratic Party headquarters after international pressure and government threats of force. Prime Minister Fatos Nano pledged safety and a political settlement, while warning the crisis was not over as investigations began and rioting had already damaged key government buildings. European officials and witnesses cautioned that further violence could erupt if weapons remained.
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Tirana
Albania
Sali Berisha
Fatos Nano
Berisha
Nano
Democratic Party
Rexhap Meidani
AP Pier
Northern Ireland Assembly debate on IRA disarmament and peace
In Belfast the new legislature argued lessons from the Omagh attack as Ulster Unionists and Sinn Fein clashed over responsibility and disarmament. McGimpsey urged cautious engagement with Sinn Fein while Adams and McGuinness faced demands for IRA action before a power-sharing administration.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Omagh
Real Ira
Irish Republican Army
Sam Foster
Ulster Unionists
Sinn Fein
Michael McGimpsey
IRA
Tam
John Gorman
Gerry Adams
Assembly
Ireland
Martin McGuinness
Ulster Volunteer Force
UVF
David Ervine
McGuinness
Ervine
Iran raises military alert amid Afghan tensions and protests
Iran put its military and top civilian leaders on full alert as tensions with Afghanistan rose over the killing of Iranian diplomats. The government urged nationwide demonstrations after Friday prayers while Iran accused the Taliban of warlike moves and hostage provocations. The leadership warned of a regional crisis and called for unity among Islamic nations.
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Iran
Afghanistan
Islamic Republic
Taliban
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
Ana
Saudi Arabia
Mawlawi Shehabuldin
Al-Sharq Al-Awsat
Pakistan
Qom
Mazar-e-Sharif
Refugees in Kosovo village face dwindling aid as fighting rages
Ethnic Albanian refugees flood into Cirez in western Kosovo amid a Serb push against the Kosovo Liberation Army. Aid convoys bring food but officials warn supplies last only days as the U.N. and Mercy Corps fear a looming humanitarian disaster.
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Kosovo
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Cirez
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KLA
Pristina
Serbia
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Anthea Webb
World Food Program
Osman Veligi
U.N
Albania
Montenegro
Mercy Corps International
Hoti Skander
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Speen
Azem Hajdari
Hajdari
Europe
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Cireaz
Lawrence
Topeka
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