Bush hints at more Colombia military aid possible
The first top level Bush delegation to Colombia indicated Washington may expand military aid to security forces fighting drug trafficking while ruling out counterinsurgency warfare. The visit stressed Colombia as a fellow democracy with heavy bilateral trade and oil exports, and affirmed peace talks with the FARC.
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Pastrana
FARC
Colin Powell
Fox vows steady leadership in Mexico state of the union
President Vicente Fox, delivering his first Informe, defends his nine month record amid farmer and student protests. He touts gains in aid to farmers schools and health care while acknowledging 215000 job losses. Critics say opposition exploits the event to challenge Fox dominance.
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Vicente Fox
Congress
Mexico City
Fox
Congress Building
Ernesto Zedillo
Mexico
United States
Adolfo
Aguilar Zinser
Reforma
Marcos Rascon
Doubts rise on Plan Colombia spraying in Colombia
A comptroller-general report urges suspending aerial spraying of drug crops until environmental effects are studied. It warns most damages are irreversible and says eradication has failed to curb cocaine and heroin production despite U S backed Plan Colombia with 1.3 billion in aid.
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Congress
U.S
Green Berets
Bogota
Washington
Comptroller-General’s Office
Andres Pastrana
Pastrana
Gonzalo de Francisco
de Francisco
Comptroller-General
Carlos Ossa
United States
Russian survivors of Nazi slave labor receive compensation
In Moscow 2000 elderly survivors lined up to receive their first payments from Germany for slave labor during WWII. Each may get up to 6500 dollars, but initially only half is paid while the remainder is contingent on final recipient numbers.
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Moscow
Germany
Russia
Pavel Kravchenko
Buchenwald
Europe
Kravchenko
House of Peoples’ Friendship
Ukraine
Soviet
Italy
Poland
Hungary
Belarus
Alexander Pochinok
Yevdokia Dyomina
Republic of Congo to offer free HIV treatment to pregnant women
In Brazzaville two clinics will start free nevirapine treatment for pregnant women testing positive for HIV as part of the My Child Will Live campaign. The project aims to reduce mother to child transmission, with Boehringer Ingelheim supplying the drug. Ghana plans local HIV drug production next year via imports from Thailand and materials likely from South Korea.
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Republic of Congo
Ghana
World Health Organization
Sub- Saharan Africa
Central Africa
Gertrude Kani
Boehringer- Ingelheim
South Africa
Richard Anane
Thailand
South Korea
Australia to move asylum seekers from Tampa to navy ship
Helicopters delivered food and blankets to hundreds stranded on the Norwegian cargo ship Tampa as Australia’s HMAS Manoora neared to transfer the 438 refugees to Papua New Guinea for onward moves to New Zealand or Nauru. Prime Minister John Howard refused landing on Christmas Island, triggering international criticism.
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Australia
Papua New Guinea
Afghanistan
New Zealand
Pacific
Nauru
John Howard
Howard
Tampa
Hmas Manoora
Port Moresby
U.N
African bishop asks Pope for forgiveness over marriage
African archbishop Emmanuel Milingo writes Pope John Paul II begging forgiveness for the pain caused to the pontiff and the church. Milingo recounts a meeting that led to his return to the church after marrying Maria Sung in May in New York.
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Milingo
Maria Sung
New York
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Sung
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Norway
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Oslo
Dagbladet
Family Federation For World Peace and Unification Movement
Jesus
Rome
Zambia
Lusaka
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