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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 2001
Page
5
Deep sea divers connected all 26 cables needed to lift the sunken Kursk from the Barents Sea floor. The nuclear submarine, which sank in August 2000 with 118 sailors aboard, is now ready for raising after a week of attachment work. The operation, delayed by storms and technical issues, should take about 12 hours once calm seas prevail.
Refugees turned away from Australia said to have hurled children into the sea to force a reversal of the decision. Prime Minister John Howard rejected capitulation while naval officers urged the vessel to leave Australian waters near Christmas Island. The navy rescued all aboard. no drownings were reported.
Russian and Ukrainian defense officials head to the Black Sea city of Sochi to examine whether a Russian Tupolev 154 was downed by a Ukrainian missile during military exercises. The crash site off Adler remains under investigation as Putin seeks clearer details and relatives arrive.
A Palestinian suicide bomber killed an Israeli in northern Israel, the first such death in a month, while in Hebron a Palestinian was shot dead and three injured amid ongoing clashes. Israeli troops remain in two neighborhoods after entering Friday.
The Nobel Peace Prize centennial year is marked as Friday's announcement nears. Nomination period closed February 1, with 136 nominees and even as many as 2,500 letters for a single candidate. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is seen as a front-runner though deliberations stay private.
The nomination period ended February 1 while commentators doubt the peace prize will reflect the post September 11 terror attacks. Thousands hold nomination rights including professors government members and past laureates.
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