Baby born in treetop during Mozambican flood rescue
Rescue workers pluck flood victims from treetops as Maputo sees up to a million homeless. Sophia Pedro gave birth in a tree four days earlier. her baby Rositha and eight others were later hoisted to safety by a helicopter. Thousands remain stranded as aid flights increase and rescue efforts continue across Gaza Province and the Save River valley.
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Mozambique
Sophia Pedro
Pedro
Michele Quintaglie
U.N. World Food Program
Quintaglie
Jaco Klopper
Gaza
Save
Rositha
Lucas Mthembu
Pinochet Declared Unfit For Trial In Britain
London AP Pinochet, 84, left Britain after Home Secretary Straw ruled him mentally unfit to stand trial for human rights abuses. Extradition demands from Spain and four other nations were dismissed. Medical findings prompted his release, ending Britain’s role in the case.
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London
Augusto Pinochet
Britain
Pinochet
Spain
Belgium
France
Switzerland
Chile
Jack Straw
Jaya
Luis Cortes
Pinochet Foundation
Santiago
Pin
Viviana Diaz
Straw
Home Office
Director of Public Prosecutions
Paul May
Chile Committee For Justice
Reed Brody
Group
Human Rights Watch
Chechen battle may drag on in southern Chechnya
In southern Chechnya Russian forces pursue scattered rebels after seizing Shatoi. Maj Gen Vadim Timchenko says operations will continue until all bandits are eliminated, possibly through summer, while Defense Minister Igor Sergeyev cites 1500 to 3000 remaining fighters and cut communications. Maskhadov notes militants still hold Argun Gorge near the Georgian border.
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Gudermes
Russia
Chechnya
Shatoi
Vadim Timchenko
Timchenko
Interfax
Igor Sergeyev
Aslan Maskhadov
Echo of Moscow Radio
Argun
Oil ministers agree to boost production for price relief
Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Mexico signaled an in principle increase in oil output to ease prices at a nine year high. Ministers said details would follow at the March 27 OPEC meeting in Vienna, with no immediate figures on size or timing.
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Saudi Arabia
Venezuela
Mexico
Brent
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
Ali Naimi
United States
Naimi
Luis Tellez
OPEC
Vienna
Austria
New York Mercantile Exchange
U.S. Energy
Bill Richardson
Serbs foil Kosovo Albanian homecoming attempt at bridge
In Kosovo Mitrovica Serbs repelled two ethnic Albanian men trying to cross a footbridge to return home as NATO peacekeepers opened the crossing. U.N. said forty three families were set to return while tensions rose as Serb crowds hurled stones and French and Canadian troops intervened. An injured Russian peacekeeper later died from a gunshot wound in Srbica amid ongoing violence.
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Kosovska Mitrovica
Yugoslavia
NATO
U.N
Kirsten Haupt
U.S
Kosovo
Here
Srbica
Ibar
Oliver Ivanovic
Bernard Kouchner
Ivanovic
Israeli commandos strike Taibeh hideout in dawn raid
Israeli security forces raided a two story house in Taibeh early today killing two Palestinian militants. Prime Minister Barak said the strike halted a major attack aimed at sabotaging the peace process. Hamas leader Yassin asserted the military wing remains active.
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Israel
Ehud Barak
Ephraim Sneh
Hamas
Sneh
Gaza
Sheik Ahmed Yassin
Shlomo Ben- Ami
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