NAIROBI - Investigators looking into the deadly bomb attacks
on two U.S. embassies will be following some leads into Friday's
twin explosions but warned that it could take some time to
identify the culprits.
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DAR ES SALAAM - A security camera placed on top of the U.S.
embassy in the Tanzanian capital may have filmed the sequence of
Friday's events leading up to a blast that killed ten people, a
U.S. diplomat said.
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BELFAST - Britain welcomed news that a hard-line Protestant
guerrilla group opposed to the Northern Ireland peace deal was
giving up violence.
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KABUL - Afghanistan's opposition alliance blamed "traitors"
for the loss of a strategic northern city to the purist Islamic
Taleban, as fighting raged on a separate front near Kabul.
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KINSHASA - President Laurent Kabila's government has accused
Uganda of joining fellow neighbour Rwanda in sending troops into
the Democratic Republic of the Congo to fight in a week-old
Tutsi-led revolt.
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PRISTINA, Serbia - Yugoslav army troops seized weapons and
ammunition from Kosovo Albanian guerrillas trying to smuggle
them across the border from Albania, military sources said.
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WASHINGTON - The head of a leading women's activist group
urged President Bill Clinton to address the nation about the
White House sex-and-perjury scandal, as a new poll showed
support for Clinton wavering among women.
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BEIJING - Officials in China's Hubei province destroyed some
secondary dikes along the Yangtze River to try and avert killer
floods threatening seven million people in the provincial
capital Wuhan, state media reported.
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DAR ES SALAAM - U.S. pathologists were due to start
post-mortems on the corpses of 10 people killed in a bomb blast
outside the U.S. embassy in the Tanzanian capital on Friday.
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ROME - Italian police, fighting to stem a tide of illegal
immigration, said they had arrested a Moroccan man believed to
have masterminded the escape of some 54 North African refugees
from a "welcome centre".
- - - - WASHINGTON - U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine
Albright said the United States would never agree to lift
sanctions against Iraq unless Baghdad fully cooperated with U.N.
arms inspectors.
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WASHINGTON - Independent counsel Kenneth Starr is
endangering the presidency with his relentless probe of the
White House sex-and-perjury allegations, Watergate reporters Bob
Woodward and Carl Bernstein said.
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