Paris hostage incident ends with slight injuries
A gunman in his 80s seized about 35 people in a Paris Boulevard Haussmann office building near the Opera for roughly an hour. Police arrested him without a struggle. two hostages were slightly wounded by gunfire. Authorities linked the event to ongoing tensions after a December subway bombing and suspected militant links.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ARIS
Paris
Boulevard Haussmann
Paris Opera
Algeria
Associated Press
Trade ministers agree to drop high tech tariffs
Trade ministers from major high tech exporters agreed to remove tariffs on hundreds of products by 2000. The deal, part of the WTO meeting, boosts U.S. aims as Charlene Barshefsky announced 28 nations joined, accounting for 85 percent of world high tech trade and promising implementation starting in 1997.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingapore
World Trade Organization
United States
U.S
Charlene Barshefsky
Barshevsky
World Trade Body
Odai Hussein Hurt In Baghdad Ambush
Saddam Hussein's eldest son Odai, a trusted aide, was wounded in a drive-by ambush in the upscale al-Mansour district of Baghdad. He was hospitalized in stable condition at the presidential complex hospital. police are investigating. Odai, long seen as Saddam's heir apparent, heads multiple ministries and media outlets while his brother Qusai controls security. The attack followed Iraq's oil export restart and amid ongoing power struggles within the regime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aghdad
Iraq
Bbissations
Saddam Hussein
Baghdad
Odai Hussein
Youth TV
Odai
Saddam
al-Mansour
U.N
Kuwait
Qusai
Journalists’ Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bob Culver
Ottawa, Ks
Ave
Ester Cos
CotumMa
Randy Thompson
George Sell
Ottawa
Kansas
Better Way Enterprises
America
ECC
RMH
Happy
Love, Dixie, Shirley
Patty
Peyvoay
Bauman's
Guo Ee
Cory
Atellum
Lane
Kingsdown
Chelsea
King
King O Pede
Bauman
Garnett
Serbia
Elgrade
Yugoslavia
Slobodan Milosevic
Warren Christopher
Milosevic
Tanjug
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!