Khmer Rouge guerrillas surrender final end of movement
In a televised ceremony, several hundred Khmer Rouge fighters surrendered to the Phnom Penh government, framed as the final end of the armed movement that terrorized Cambodia. About 500 fighters may join the army, while 20,000 civilians under Khmer Rouge control may return home. three top leaders remain at large across the Thai border.
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No agreement on Lockerbie suspects in Tripoli talks
U N Secretary General Kofi Annan failed to secure Libyan agreement to hand over Abdel Basset Ali al Megrahi and Lamen Khalifa Fhimah for trial over the 1988 Pan Am 103 bombing. He said talks with Muammar Gadhafi were fruitful but require time and possibly a third-country trial.
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South Koreans see first Japanese film in 50 years
An award winning Japanese film was released in South Korea on Saturday marking the first public screening in half a century of a movie from its former colonial ruler. Hana-Bi Fireworks shown with Korean subtitles in 14 Seoul theaters and two provincial sites. Floodwaters killed 39 one horned rhinoceros and more than 600 other animals in an eastern India preserve this rainy season. The 250 square mile Kaziranga National Park houses the world’s largest population of the one horned rhino.
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China to shutter 50 factories along Yangtze River
State media report 50 factories to close around the Yangtze to boost environmental protection near the Three Gorges Dam. Xinhua News Agency says more than 150 paper mills and tanneries have already closed to curb pollution at the dam site.
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French authorities suspect wine growers in bombing
A bomb exploded at a tax office in Narbonne southern France causing damage but no injuries authorities said Saturday. They suspect wine growers were behind the attack and are investigating the case ongoing.
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Nationalist Party Triumph Ousts Opposition Leader in Taiwan
The ruling Nationalist Party won a decisive victory ousting the opposition leader Ma Ying-jeou, known as Sonny Boy Ma, in a vote seen as voter reluctance toward any move toward independence from China.
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