Taiwan, Taiwan, ROC clash over phone prefixes and politics
The AP reports Chinese customers found Panasonic phones preprogrammed with overseas prefixes including ROC for Taiwan. Beijing denounces Taiwan as part of China and pressures naming in forums, while Taiwan competes as Chinese Taipei at the Olympics. Panasonic vows to reprogram the devices but has yet to decide how it will label Taiwan.
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Chinese Taipei
Palestinians fail to secure UN monitors veto drives clash
United Nations Security Council deadlocked over a Palestinian bid for a condemnatory resolution against Israel and a plan to deploy monitors in the West Bank and Gaza. The U S veto threat loomed as Britain and Norway proposed a nonbinding statement to urge calm, while Palestinians insisted on binding action.
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Norway
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Durban
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Children Speak Out at South Africa AIDS Meeting
In Cape Town 16 year old Jabu describes how her father raped her and infected her with HIV as she joins about 90 infected children urging action against AIDS discrimination at South Africa's first national gathering of youths affected by the virus. Estimates show 4.7 million infected and 700,000 AIDS orphans with stigma and abandonment common.
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Jabu
South Africa
Italian student killed in NATO training jet crash
Two T 38 jets from Sheppard Air Force Base collided during a NATO training session about 50 miles west of Wichita Falls. Second Lt Marco Tosi, solo student, was killed. Instructors Capt Marco Poter and 2nd Lt Paolo Papi ejected and survived in good condition. Eyewitness described a high altitude collision and fireball. cause under investigation.
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Texas
Air Force
Sheppard Air Force Base
Wichita Falls
John Clabes
Federal Aviation Administration
Marco Tosi
Laura McGowan
Marco Poter
Paolo Papi
David Brown
McGowan
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