Mourners urge ouster of Pakistan PM amid sectarian killings
Thousands of mourners in Punjab province demand Nawaz Sharif's removal and an army takeover after 16 Shiites are killed at a mosque in Quereshi. Police arrest 46 Sipah-e-Sahabah Pakistan activists as Shiite leaders call for military rule to restore order.
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UN downplays Iraq threat amid aid workers tension
A UN official in Baghdad said U S and British humanitarian workers have faced no safety problems in Iraq amid government tensions. Baghdad had asked the UN to replace them, saying the country cannot shield workers from popular anger after last month’s airstrikes.
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AIDS Crisis Hits Indian Couple Facing Treatment Gap
In Bombay a wife and husband both carry HIV with the wife sacrificing her own care to fund her husband’s AIDS cocktail therapy. Subhash Hira notes many women forego treatment for their husbands and children, with less than 1 percent affordability across India. In Jerusalem, Israelis hear of a secret millennium security unit as 1999 opens, amid a year of potential Christian Jewish Muslim tension and a looming tourism surge from pilgrims. Sunday arrests of 14 Denver cult members highlight the era’s threats.
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Jordan king sees Clinton during cancer treatment visit
King Hussein of Jordan meets President Clinton at the White House amid his Mayo Clinic care in Rochester Minnesota. The talks touch on the stalled Wye accord and the broader goal of a Middle East settlement with Israel and the Palestinians while Dennis Ross covers for Madeleine Albright in regional diplomacy.
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Safer World Yet Conflicts Persist in Global Survey
The National Defense Council Foundation reports 60 conflicts across 192 nations and territories in its annual survey. The figure falls by seven from 1997 but remains well above the Cold War base line of 35 conflicts in 1989, signaling ongoing global instability.
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