Queen Elizabeth II Receives Birthday Trooping Honor Parade
In London the Queen attends Trooping the Color marking her birthday with red coated guards, White horses, and a Scots Guards color presentation. The ceremony highlights royal family presence and a long tradition tied to her reign, including a birthday honors list featuring Mick Jagger and Harold Pinter.
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London
Elizabeth II
Buckingham Palace
Britain
Edinburgh
Cardiff
Belfast
York
Whitehall
Prince Philip
Prince Charles
Anne
Princess Royal
Andrew
Edward
Countess of Wessex
Scots Guards
Windsor Castle
Household Division
Army
Grenadier
Coldstream
Welsh Guards
Rolling Stone
Mick Jagger
Revor Nunn
Jonathan Miller
Peter Blake
Harold Pinter
Elizabeth
Blair agrees to hold talks to save peace process
Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed to crisis talks with the British and Irish governments and Northern Ireland parties backing the 1998 Good Friday accord to head off sectarian tensions and possible IRA renewal actions. Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble pressed for emergency discussions amid a looming party executive meeting in Belfast.
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London
Tony Blair
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
David Trimble
Blair
Trimble
Belfast
Sinn Fein
IRA
Colombia
Jeffrey Donaldson
David Burnside
Donaldson
FARC
Bertie Ahern
Channel
Jersey
Sporadic shooting rattles Brazzaville as rebels attack
Heavy arms fire echoed in Brazzaville early Saturday as government troops hunted Ninjas rebels who launched a one day assault. At least 70 people were killed with the toll rising as more bodies were found. The violence disrupted the city’s power base and airport but life largely returned to normal by afternoon.
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Brazzaville
Republic of Congo
Health Ministry
Stephane Ernest Mouaitaya
Kinsoundi
Jean Robert Obargui
Frederic Busangou
Denis Sassou-Nguesso
Sassou- Nguesso
Ninjas
Bernard Kolelas
U.N
Castro Leads Cuba in Support for Untouchable Socialism
Fidel Castro signs first on a petition declaring Cuba's socialist system untouchable as more than 120000 petition stations open nationwide. Castro predicts about seven million of eleven million Cubans will sign, while opposition groups push civil liberties reforms through the Varela Project and a potential referendum.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Bush
Castro
Cuba
Antonio Maceo
Ernesto “Che” Guevara
Varela
Carter
Washington
State Department
Phil Beeker
Reeker
Associated Press
Federation of Cuban Women
Confederation of Cuban Workers
Raul Castro
Elizardo Sanchez
National Assembly
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