Prisoner swap opens Sarajevo bridge as airport deal made
In Sarajevo, Serbs and government forces completed a major prisoner exchange at the Brotherhood and Unity bridge after a lengthy delay. UN vehicles ferried Serbs to government areas while Muslim POWs crossed into Sarajevo. An airport reopening accord followed talks with Yasushi Akashi amid NATO pressure.
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Sarajevo
Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia
Brotherhood and Unity Bridge
U.N
Yasushi Akashi
Yugoslavia
Akashi
NATO
Health officials halt rat mail amid plague fears in India
Government official Ramesh Abale ordered a stop after residents threatened action to close the Parel post office in Bombay where rats were being mailed for laboratory tests to detect pneumonic plague as health officials warned of danger from poorly packed parcels.
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New Delhl
India
Parel
Bombay
Ramesh Abale
Mass murder suicide hunt for two cult members in Swiss village
Police seek two witnesses as investigators resume search of a burned chalet in Granges sur Salvan Valais after at least 48 members of a doomsday cult died in two cantons. Twenty five bodies found in chalets. 23 more in a Cherry farmhouse. Some victims shot or suffocated. no signs of struggle.
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Granges-Sur-Salvan
Switzerland
Carlo Kuonen
Freiburg
Beat Karlen
Canada
Granges-sur- Salvan
Valais
Geneva
Cherry
Dominique Fournier
Aftershocks Rock Kuril Islands After Massive Quake
Dozens of aftershocks shake the Kuril Islands as rescue teams set up tent villages for quake survivors. Authorities report conflicting death tolls, with Yeltsin confirming at least four and officials noting possible trapped victims at a collapsed hospital on Sturup Island. Yuzhno Kurilsk loses power and water as the region braces for further tremors and potential tidal waves. Japan offers aid, but Moscow has not appealed for assistance.
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Vladivostok
Russia
Kuril Islands
Ministry For
Boris Yeltsin
Sturup Island
Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Karl Smolikov
Pas
Nee Ae
Japan
Kurils
Hokkaido Island
Kamchatka Peninsula
Soviet Union
World Bank backs educating girls in developing nations
In Madrid the World Bank argues that educating girls is key to reducing poverty and boosting living standards. The bank directs about 40 percent of its roughly $2 billion yearly education spending to girls programs, with officials noting higher returns, lower infant mortality, slower population growth, and healthier children from educated mothers.
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World Bank
Madrid
Spain
Armeane Choksi
Wold Bank
Choksi
Developing World
Lawrence Summers
U.S. Treasury
International Monetary Fund
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Iraq
United Nations
Rolf Ekens
U.N. Commission
Security Council
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Cheiry
Albert Giacobino
Albert Torche
Marie-Claire Dutoit
Nemuro
Hokkaido
Moscow
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Eta
Yala
Heating and Air Cond., Inc
New Bern
N.C
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