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USA - Israel withdraws request for extradiction
US Attorney General Janet Reno announced Thursday (3/4) that the government of Israel had withdrawn its request for extradition for Hamas leader Mussa Abu Marzuk. He has been held for 20 months in a US prison.
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USA: NRA TO FIGHT CLINTON'S BAN ON ASSAULT WEAPONS IMPORTS
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The U-S National Rifle Association has warned that it plans to fight President Bill Clinton's ban on assault weapons imports.
The N-R-A spoke out after President Clinton closed a legal loophole on Monday which had allowed...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE UPDATE (3)
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The mayor of Miami-Dade County on Wednesday said that he will not offer any police help should federal officials try to remove Elian Gonzalez from the home of his great uncle.
Alex Penelas spoke after the bitter custody...
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USA: 1993 WACO INCIDENT: NEW EVIDENCE EMERGES
Waco, Texas, USA - File
April 19, 1993
1. Infrared videotape of Branch Davidian Compound
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New evidence has emerged in the F-B-I's assault on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas in 1993.
Federal Marshalls have...
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Filipino legislator to face charges over Clinton campaign donations
Miami International Airport, Florida, 29 December 2002
1. Exterior shot of Miami Airport terminal
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Philippine Congressman Presporo Pichay:"And that is the reason why I asked before boarding the plane 'Could you tell...
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USA - Starr and Reno comment on Clinton affair
One day after sending Congress a potentially explosive report on President Clinton's conduct with a White House intern, Special Prosecutor Kenneth Starr would not comment any further Thursday (10/9). On Wednesday, two vans filled with...
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ITALY: ROME: CUBAN FOREIGN MINISTER MEETS POPE JOHN PAUL II
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Cuban Foreign Minister, Felipe Perez Roque, has met with Pope John Paul II and the Italian Prime Minister.
His visit to Italy has attracted particular attention due to the Cuban government's demands for the return of...
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USA: WASHINGTON: PRESIDENT CLINTON TO VISIT MEXICO
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President Bill Clinton is making his first trip south of the U-S border since taking office more than four years ago.
Clinton is due to start a seven-day trip to Mexico, Central America and Barbados on Monday and he plans...
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Cuba - Transplant Girl to Enter America
The United States Attorney General Janet Reno on Saturday (22/1) cleared the way for an eight-year-old Cuban girl to enter America for a life-saving kidney transplant.
young girl Greta Blanco in rocking chair
Greta with her...
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USA: REACTION TO ISRAELI COURT DECISION ON SHEINBEIN
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Israel won't be sending a teenager wanted in Maryland on murder charges back to the United States.
The Israeli Supreme Court today blocked the extradition of Samuel Sheinbein - saying it will try him in Israel, instead.
Both...
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COLOMBIA: HEAD OF POLICE RESIGNS
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Colombia's head of police has resigned, citing the deaths of so many of his colleagues as one of his reasons.
General Rosso Jose Serrano made history when he arrested the leaders of the Cali cocaine cartel.
And he has been...
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USA: WASHINGTON: PRESIDENT CLINTON DEFENDS HIS TRIP TO CHINA
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U-S President Bill Clinton has defended his trip to China, stressing the importance of ties between the two superpowers.
Clinton says he hopes controversy over journalists being refused visas does not hurt his chances of...
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USA: AGENTS CAPTURE KEY MEMBERS OF HEROIN TRAFFICKING RING
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America's top law enforcement official says U-S agents have captured key members of a major heroin trafficking ring run from the U-S by Nigerian women.
Working with officials in Thailand and Pakistan, U-S federal agents have...
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USA: JONESBORO: STUDENTS RETURN TO SCHOOL FOLLOWING KILLINGS
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Life began to return to normal in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Monday as students returned to class for the first time since last Tuesday's killings.
Four students and one teacher were killed in an ambush carried out by two...
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USA: POLITICIANS QUESTION IMPARTIALITY OF ATTORNEY GENERAL RENO
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U-S politicians are questioning the impartiality of U-S Attorney General Janet Reno as she decides whether to appoint an independent counsel to look into fundraising by of the President and Vice President.
In an advance...
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USA: CANDIDATES TO JOIN NATO PRESS THEIR CASE WITH US SENATE
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Foreign ministers from the three Central European nations who are candidates to join NATO have been pressing their case with the U-S Senate.
Foreign ministers from Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic met key senators on...
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USA: CALIFORNIA: EVE OF UNABOMBER SUSPECT TRIAL: PREVIEW
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The trial for Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski (kuh-ZIN'-skee) on federal explosives charges is set to begin on Wednesday.
Kaczynski is charged with four bombings that killed two Sacramento men and maimed two academics....
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US killer in Israeli prison shot dead in gunbattle
Israeli special forces raided a prison in central Israel on Sunday, killing one of the country's most notorious inmates after he seized a guard's weapon, shot three guards and barricaded himself inside the compound.
Police identified...
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ITALY: POPE JOHN PAUL II CONCERNED OVER ELIAN GONZALEZ
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Pope John Paul II has expressed concern Elian Gonzalez being separated from his father during a meeting with Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque.
Roque said that he had briefed the Pope on the case of Gonzalez, the...
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USA: WASHINGTON: SENATE COMMITTEE HEARING ON TERRORISM
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The U-S government has denied that increased investigative powers would curtail long held freedoms.
At a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, F-B-I Director Louis Freeh says Americans are under increasing attack by...
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USA: BUDDHIST NUNS TESTIFY AT CAMPAIGN FUND RAISING HEARINGS
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Three Buddhist nuns took centre stage at campaign fund-raising hearings in Washington D-C on Thursday.
They testified that their contributions to the Democratic Party were reimbursed by their temple - an illegal act under U-S...
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France - Leaders arrive for terrorism conference
An anti-terrorism conference opened in Paris on Tuesday (30/7) bringing together the foreign and security ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialised nations and Russia. Sixteen ministers from the G-7 countries, plus Russia,...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: ELIAN SEIZED LATEST (2)
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The Miami relatives of Elian Gonzalez were on Saturday turned away from Andrews Air Force Base as they attempted to visit the boy after he was snatched in a dramatic early morning raid by federal police.
The relatives had...
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USA: CUBAN BOY CUSTODY BATTLE: GRANDMOTHERS (4)
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Two grandmothers of Elian Gonzalez have visited the U-S attorney general to ask for the six-year-old to be returned to his Cuban homeland.
Mariela Quintana, paternal grandmother of Elian and maternal grandmother Raquel...