Russia’s Mi 26 crash in Chechnya kills 114 servicemen
A Russian Mi 26 troop transport helicopter crashed near Khankala outside Grozny with 147 aboard, officials say, in what media call Russia’s worst military air disaster. Debates over cause include possible rebel fire and technical failure.
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Moscow
Chechnya
Sergei Ivanov
ORT
Khankala
Grozny
Kommersant Business Daily
Russia
Mozdok
Kommersant
Zimbabwean courts order farmers to leave land
In Harare, Zimbabwean courts ordered white farmers to quit their properties by Tuesday. Union leaders report about 200 arrests since Thursday as the government presses eviction orders, with many farmers seeking places to stay after loading assets onto trucks.
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Harare
Zimbabwe
Ben Freeth
Commercial Farmers Union
Colin Cloete
Cloette
Selous Tobacco and Corn
Freeth
Wayne Bvudzijena
Home Affairs
John Nkomo
Magdeburg Dodges Major Evacuation as Elbe Peaks
Elbe River crest near 22 feet spares Magdeburg a large-scale evacuation. Authorities kept 20 000 people in place as sandbag levees held while a new barrier redirects water to safer areas. Some villages east of the city were evacuated after a dike breach.
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Magdeburg
Germany
Elbe
Saxony-Anhalt
Dresden
Klaus Jeziorsky
East Germany
Europe
Jessen
Brandenburg
Muehlberg
Austria
Czech Republic
Slovakia
Romania
Basel
Vulcan
Bucharest
Budapest
Danube
Hungary
Russia
Large weapons caches found in southeastern Afghanistan
U S special operations troops uncovered three major caches in Shkin near the Pakistani border in Paktika province including a cargo truck filled weapons cache with RPGs mines a 12 7 mm machine gun and munitions. A second cache held rockets fuses heavy rounds and anti aircraft gear and a third near Urgun contained 107 mm rockets telephones and a switchboard.
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Bagram
Afghanistan
U.S
Kabul
Shkin
Paktika
Roger King
Bagram Air Base
King
Urgun
Lwara
Arabs react to US radio station Radio Sawa in Middle East
Arabs in the region welcome Radio Sawa's international music mix but distrust its news. The station targets under 30s, replacing VOA Arabic news with music oriented programming. Broadcasting from Kuwait Jordan and UAE since late March, it seeks more transmitter sites amid regional skepticism of US policy. Yousef' s comments reflect reluctance to accept American messaging.
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Kuwait
Radio Sawa
Voice of America
United States
U.S
Jordan
United Arab Emirates
Middle East
Israel
Osama bin Laden
al-Qaida Organization
Yousef
Qatar
Al-Jazeera Television
Saudi Arabia
Middle East Broadcasting Corp
Mohammed Said
Shuwaikh
Kuwait City
Canada unlikely to join U.S.-led invasion of Iraq
Canada may not take part in a war against Iraq unless incontrovertible evidence shows Saddam Hussein plans to attack the West. Defense Minister John McCallum said existing information is not sufficient to justify Canadian participation, and confirmation from the United States would be required.
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Toronto
Canada
Iraq
Saddam Hussein
John McCallum
Globe and Mail
Maclean's
McCallum
Shane Diaczuk
Defense Ministry
Afghanistan
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