UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council called Baghdad's
decision to halt cooperation with U.N. weapons inspectors
"totally unacceptable" and urged it not to take the step.
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WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky, the woman at the heart of the
White House sex-and-perjury scandal, testified to a grand jury
that has been investigating her alleged sexual affair with
President Bill Clinton.
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BELGRADE - The United States warned Yugoslavia to stop a
Serbian offensive in Kosovo, while the European Union demanded
that Belgrade cooperate with an investigation into an alleged
ethnic massacre.
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KINSHASA - President Laurent Kabila put Congolese on war
alert against Rwanda as Rwandan- backed rebels advanced deeper
into the former Zaire, seizing an oil port on the Atlantic coast
in the extreme west.
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WASHINGTON - NATO and European troops will hold exercises in
Albania the week after next and in Macedonia in September to
warn Yugolsav President Slobodan Milosevic to end military
action in Kosovo, the Pentagon said.
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WASHINGTON - The World Bank approved a $1.5 billion loan for
Russia, including an immediate cash injection of $300 million,
to support the battered economy and change the way gas, oil and
rail monopolies do business.
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UNITED NATIONS - The Security Council expressed grave
concern at a sharp escalation of fighting in Afghanistan and
demanded an urgent and unconditional ceasefire.
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WASHINGTON - A federal judge ordered Microsoft Corp. to make
available top executives, including Chairman Bill Gates, and key
software code to government lawyers building an antitrust suit
against the software giant.
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ABUJA - Nigeria's military Provisional Ruling Council met to
discuss setting up a new electoral commission and replacing a
sacked cabinet of ministers, government sources said.
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WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton and British Prime
Minister Tony Blair discussed in a telephone conversation ways
to halt a Serb offensive against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo, a
White House spokesman said.
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BANGKOK - Human rights group Amnesty International demanded
that Myanmar release political prisoners to mark the 10th
anniversary of a bloody crackdown on pro-democracy activists. <
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