WASHINGTON - The United States offered a reward of up to
$2 million for information leading to the arrest and
conviction of those who bombed American embassies in Kenya and
Tanzania last Friday.
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LUANDA - Fighting has flared between the Angolan armed
forces (FAA) and the UNITA rebel movement in the northern
province of Malanje, United Nations officials said.
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PRISTINA, Serbia - Serb sources said ethnic Albanian
guerrillas killed 10 policemen in the Serbian province of
Kosovo as diplomatic efforts continued to end the violence.
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ALMATY - Tajikistan is stengthening its southern flank,
aid agencies are on alert and Central Asian leaders are
fretting over the growing influence of Afghanistan's hardline
Islamic Taleban movement in the far north.
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KINSHASA - After a week of stunning setbacks, President
Laurent Kabila's army says it is holding its ground against
Rwandan-backed rebels in the former Zaire.
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SRINAGAR, India - At least 19 people were killed in
separatist violence and firefights between security forces and
militants in India's strife-torn Jammu and Kashmir state.
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CHICAGO - The bodies of 11 of the 12 Americans killed in
the bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi will arrive on
Thursday at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington, where
President Bill Clinton will speak at a memorial service, the
White House said.
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MOSCOW - Authorities in the Chelyabinsk region of central
Russia claimed a breakthrough in talks with coal miners who
have been blocking the Trans-Siberian railway for two weeks
demanding payment of wage arrears.
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MASERU - The government of Lesotho agreed to the
appointment of a regional committee to investigate opposition
allegations of electoral fraud, defusing a political crisis
which had turned violent.
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BOGOTA - A gang of thieves armed with sub-machine guns
took at least 20 people hostage in a Bogota shopping centre
after bungling a bid to rob a nearby bank, police said.
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