Detentions at Tiananmen Square follow Falun Gong trial
Dozens detained or questioned in Tiananmen Square as police clamp down after four Falun Gong leaders were found guilty of organizing and using an evil cult to spread superstition and cause deaths. Sentences ranged from seven to sixteen years.
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Tiananmen Square
Li Chang
Wang Zhiwen
China
Ji Liewu
Yao Jie
Falun Gong
Sinhua
Rebels Counterattack in Chechnya South to Open Supply Lines
In Chechnya's southern mountains rebel fighters surged against Russian troops to reopen supply routes blocked by federal forces. Grozny endured sustained artillery and air bombardment as ground forces pressed a difficult assault amid stiff rebel resistance. Interfax reported jets dropped inflammable gas to clear rebel bunkers and fortifications.
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Shas Leaves Barak Coalition In Budget Standoff
Israel's Shas ultra Orthodox party announces break with Ehud Barak's government over failure to bail out the education and welfare system amid peace talks. Shas adds 24 hour notice to seek solutions. without its 17 deputies Barak holds a 51 seat minority in the 120 member Knesset with budget passage due by December 31.
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Ehud Barak
Shas Party
Syria
Itzik Soudri
Associated Press
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Barak
Yitzhak Vaknin
Vaknin
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Ivory Coast Junta Plans New Constitution After Coup
State radio reported that after a largely bloodless coup led by Gen. Robert Guei the ruling junta aims to draft a new constitution and restore democracy after a transition. Guei met with political party representatives as Prime Minister Kablan Duncan fled with his family toward Togo to join ousted President Henri Konan Bedie.
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Ivory Coast
Robert Guei
Kablan Duncan
Togo
Henri Konan Bedie
Guatemalans pick Portillo in first peacetime vote in 40 years
Guatemala City Alfonso Portillo, a populist lawmaker, claimed a landslide in the first peacetime presidential race in nearly four decades. With 98 percent counted Portillo of the FRG led 68 percent to 32 for Oscar Berger of PAN. Final results awaited.
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Guatemala
Alfonso Fortillo
Portillo
Guatemalan Republican Front
FRG
Oscar Berger
Alvaro Arzu
National Advancement Party
PAN
Kosovo on brink of anarchy says Yugoslav prosecutor
Belgrade prosecutor Vukasin Jokanovic warned Kosovo is sliding into anarchy. He accused NATO and the United Nations of failure as ethnic Albanians and Serbs battled, NATO-U.N. peace mission now governs the province after Serb troops withdrew. He cited Albanian expatriates funding the independence push and crime networks in Western Europe and the United States.
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Yugoslavia
Junoslavia
Kosovo
NATO
United Nations
Vukasin Jokanovic
Serbia
Nato-U.n
Europe
United States
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