Florida tobacco settlement grows to nearly thirteen billion
Florida adds 1.7 billion to its tobacco settlement bringing the total to about 13 billion. Governor Lawton Chiles called the renegotiated deal another nail in the coffin of Big Tobacco as states seek to recover smoker treatment costs and curb youth targeting.
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Mass slayings shake resort town near Ensenada Baja
Gunmen appeared at 4:30 a.m. and executed 18 people, including children and a baby, in three adjacent homes at El Sauzal near Ensenada. A 15-year-old girl survived by hiding under a bed as authorities probe possible drug trafficking links and motives. One suspect, Fermin Castro, head of marijuana plantations for the Arellano Felix cartel, was seriously wounded.
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Russia to restructure loans with Western banks
Russia aims to reach a new debt agreement with foreign lenders to secure fresh Western credit as the economy reels from a default and the ruble's plunge. Deputy PM Shokhin said talks on direct support through credit lines are possible, a day after 25 Western banks met in London to press terms. The ruble slid to around 15 per dollar, stocks fell, and authorities prepared for an Oct. 7 nationwide protest.
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Third man charged in Embassy bombing in Kenya
HAROUN FAZIL, a fugitive from the Comoro Islands, is charged in a U.S. complaint with murder and conspiracy in the Nairobi embassy bombing that killed 12 Americans and 235 others, after renting a Nairobi villa used to build the bomb. He faces possible death sentence if convicted.
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National POW MIA Recognition Day in Vietnam
In Thanh Son Vietnam AP photo shows a missing pilot’s face on a bulletin board as soldiers and civilians dig for remains under an anthropologist’s supervision. About 2,081 Americans are still missing from the Vietnam War, with 1,554 in Vietnam and others in Laos and Cambodia, prompting ongoing, multi-year excavation efforts and identifications.
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Teens Say No to Sex More in 1990s Survey Findings
CDC study of 16,262 high school students shows 52 percent abstained from intercourse in 1997, up from 46 percent in 1991, and 57 percent used a condom last sex, with 16 percent reporting four or more partners, down from 19 percent in 1991.
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