Arafat cancels trip to Syria
Yasser Arafat cancels an official visit to Damascus planned for talks with Syria. Syria and Palestine blame Washington for the abrupt cancellation as relations strain since 1983. Washington had sought a meeting with Shimon Peres, while Arafat weighed options with regional backers.
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Syria
Yasser Arafat
Mustafa Miro
Arafat
Palestinian Territories
Amman
Jordan
Shimon Peres
Washington
Hafez Assad
Israel
Colin Powell
Peres
Egypt
Former Bosnian commander surrenders to UN war crimes tribunal
Sefer Halilovic, 49, a former Bosnian army commander, surrendered in The Hague to face murder charges over wartime deaths of Bosnian Croats. He arrived from Sarajevo aboard a U N flight with lawyer Faruk Balijagic and was formally presented at the detention unit before custody.
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Hague
Netherlands
U.N. War Crimes Tribunal
Sefer Halilovic
Sarajevo
Bosnia- Herzegovina
U.N
Faruk Balijaghc
Divers prepare to lift sunken Kursk submarine
An international team works to raise the Kursk after its August 2000 sinking in the Barents Sea. A hoisting barge waits offshore as storm conditions delay operations. Kursk carried 118 crew killed in the incident. Russian officials aim to remove environmental risk from the reactors and clarify the cause.
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Moscow
Kursk
Barents Sea
Train blast injures many in northeast India
A passenger train derailed seven coaches after an explosion in Assam on Tuesday injuring at least 100 passengers, with 40 in serious condition. Officials link the attack to the National Democratic Front of Boroland amid regional tensions over resource exploitation and economic neglect.
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India
National Democratic Front of
Boroland
Assam
NATO surpasses arms collection in Macedonian peace plan
NATO officials announced 3381 weapons collected in Operation Essential Harvest exceeding the 3300 target and signaling progress toward peace in Macedonia. Sir Lord Robertson urged parliament to enact constitutional reforms for ethnic Albanian rights as Germany eyes a civilian protection mission.
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NATO
Macedonia
Lord Robertson
Robertson
Germany
Boris Trajkovski
Gerhard Schroeder
Trajkovski
G7 backs plan to freeze terrorist funding worldwide
The G seven finance ministers including the United States Japan Germany France Britain Italy and Canada agreed in a joint statement to wage a global campaign against financing terrorism. They planned a October 6 Washington meeting to coordinate actions and address the economic slowdown and post Sept 11 impact while expecting a near term recovery.
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Japan
Germany
France
Britain
Italy
Canada
U.S. Treasury
Paul O’neill
New York
Pope John Paul II falters in Armenia on health test
Pope John Paul II, 81, faltered with trembling hands and a slumped posture midway through a speech in Yerevan marking 1700 years of Armenian Christianity. An aide wiped his face as Catholicos Karekin II assisted, then the pope later appeared to rebound, waving his cane before a recovery in the evening.
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Armenia
John Paul II
John Paul
Armenian Apostolic Church
Echmiadzin
Apostolic Cathedral
Catholicos Karekin II
Kazakstan
OPEC faces hard questions as oil output debated in Vienna
In Vienna delegates from OPEC discuss how to balance prices and supplies amid plunging crude prices after terrorist attacks in the United States. They eye renewing quotas while wary of appearing too pro U.S. in a Muslim majority bloc. Prices have fallen to 20.51 a barrel as talks focus on defending the 25 target.
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OPEC
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Afghanistan
Osama bin Laden
Falah Aljsbury
Alamo
Calif
Obaid bin Said al- Nasseri
United Arab Emirates
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