Kosovo Exodus Expulsions Drive Refugees Across Borders
Serb forces round up ethnic Albanians, load them into trains and vehicles, and push toward neighboring states. UN and refugee accounts describe a coordinated campaign amid NATO strikes, with Pristina becoming a ghost town and about 190000 displaced through Macedonia Albania and Montenegro.
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Albania
U.N
NATO
Yugoslavia
Kosovo
Pristina
Macedonia
Montenegro
Judith Kumin
U.N. High Commissioner For
Geneva
United Nations
Kumin
Rexhep Liman
Pact delay shadows Good Friday accord in NI power deal
British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern set April 13 as a pause date after a week of talks on IRA disarmament. They proposed Sinn Fein take two posts in the government before IRA disarms, with a new all Ireland day of reconciliation as a test. Troop withdrawals and barracks closures would follow, but Ulster Unionists demand IRA disarmament before Sinn Fein inclusion.
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Northern Ireland
Britain
Tony Blair
Ireland
Bertie Ahern
Sinn Fein
IRA
Ulster Unionists
Belfast
Ahern
Blair
Yeltsin suspends prosecutor amid Kremlin probe
President Boris Yeltsin suspended Prosecutor General Yuri Skuratov amid a corruption probe tied to a video showing him with two prostitutes. Opponents call the move an attempt to derail the inquiry. Parliament's upper house refused to dismiss Skuratov, who denounced the charges as fabrication. Putin alleged suspects supplied prostitutes to drop investigations.
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Moscow
Boris Yeltsin
Kremlin
Yeltsin
Yuri Skuratov
Skuratov
Gennady Zyuganov
Interfax
Russia
Federal Security Service
Vladimir Putin
Train Derails Near Dhaka Killing One and Wounding Many
A passenger train returning from a religious holiday derailed near Sohagi station in Mymensingh, about 70 miles north of Dhaka, killing one and injuring at least 200 as six of eleven coaches jumped the tracks.
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Dhaka
Bangladesh
Sohagi
Mymensingh
U.S. jets pound Iraqi facilities in first strikes in weeks
Allied warplanes bombed communications and a radio relay station in southern Iraq after Iraqi claims of destroyed homes. U.S. Central Command said three F-16s hit targets near Afaj in Qadissiya province as no fly zones remain in effect. Iraqi sources cited 18 sorties from Kuwait and 33 from Saudi Arabia, with two houses reportedly destroyed and two residents injured.
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Iraq
U.S
Saudi Arabia
Kuwait
Cmdr
Ernest Duplessis
U.S. Central Command
Tampa
Fla
Duplessis
Yugoslavia
Air Defenses Command
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