PORT MATADI, Congo - Congolese rebels say they have captured
the last major government strongpoint blocking their march on
President Laurent Kabila's capital Kinshasa.
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WASHINGTON - Monica Lewinsky returns to the grand jury on
Thursday for more questions about her sexual affair with
President Bill Clinton, amid reports that Clinton has already
given investigators a DNA sample.
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DUBLIN - Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern announced
"extremely draconian" new measures intended to bring to justice
the guerrillas responsible for the Omagh car bomb which killed 28
people.
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KABUL - Afghanistan's Taleban Islamic movement promised to
protect dissident Saudi Arabian millionaire Osama bin Laden,
saying the watch it keeps on him made it certain he was not
behind the bombing of U.S. embassies in East Africa.
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MOSCOW - The embattled Russian government sought to reassure
both foreign investors and the public that they would not suffer
unduly from its drastic moves to try to stabilise the economy.
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WASHINGTON - Indonesian officials may have pocketed or
diverted more than one-fifth of World Bank development funds sent
to the country, according to a 1997 internal World Bank document.
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LUCKNOW, India - More than 200 people, many of them Hindu
pilgrims, were feared dead on Wednesday after a huge landslide
hit a remote mountain road in northern India, officials said.
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LONDON - Amnesty International said that companies investing
in Myanmar can no longer claim ignorance of widespread forced
labour and should ensure their operations in the country do not
violate human rights.
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BELGRADE - A top European Union official warned of an
impending "humanitarian catastrophe" for Kosovo refugees amid
fresh reports of clashes in the Serbian province.
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BOSTON - U.S. scientists argued that the few remaining stocks
of smallpox virus should be destroyed immediately, and not next
year as scheduled, to end the risk they will be stolen cand used
as a biological weapon.
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TEHRAN - Iran has called on U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan
to help in securing the release of Iranians held by the Afghan
Taleban movement, the official news agency IRNA said.
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