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Toxic gas kills 5 in India Five people
I died and three more were hospitalised after inhaling toxic gas at a pharmaceutical plant in the former French enclave of Pondicherry Wednesday, the Press Trust of India (FT!) said in New Delhi. AFP reports.
The victims were all employees of the drug manufacturing plant In the Kalapet area of Pondicherry, on India s southeast coast
The gas said to have escaped from a pie at the plant, the news agency said No further details were available
Afghans now can go freely for Hai:
Afghans will be allowed for the flrat time to go to Saudi Arabia for the Islamic pilgrimage of Haj without waiting to be selected by a tottery system, the official Bakhtar News Agency said on Wednesday In Islamabad, reports Reuter.
"For the first time in Afghan history, the Afghans eligible for Haj will go to Mecca. Saudi Arabia, without tots," Bakhtar said
Previously the authorities drew lots to select pilgrims from Afghanistan, whose population is predominantly Muslim
Chinese leader to visit Moscow :
Chinese Communist Party leader Jiang Zemin will pay an official visit to Moscow from May 15 to May 19. the Soviet News Agency Tass said on Wednesday in Moscow, Reuter reports
Tass said President Mikhail Gorbachev, who Is also head of the Communist Party, had invited Jiang to make the trip a rare high-level contact between party leaders from the communist superpowers
Women's rally in Karachi Hundreds
I of women rallied in Karachi Wednesday to condemn the breakdown of law and order In southern Pakistan s Sindh province, reports AFP from Karachi
Sindh womens movement leader Mumtaz Ntzamanl told the rally that police appeared helpless as bandits kidnapped and killed hostages and burned crops in rural Sindh
The government was arresting innocent people under the cover of operations against the bandits she charged
Known here as dacotts. the bandits last month abducted two Japanese students and killed a Swedish consultant.
Germany-Poland friendship treaty :
Germany and Poland reached agreement Wednesday on controversial points tn a draft friendship treaty. Foreign Office spokesman Hanna Schumacher said in Bonn, reports AP
The draft now is ready to be approved by the two governments Schumacher said after the sixth round of talks between delegates from the two countries I
Since the unification of the two Germany* last October, quick progress as made In thorny areas of relations between Germany and Poland to ease Polish resentment over Nazi Germany s conquest In World War II.
Palestinians begin hunger strike :
Some 900 Palestinians refugees began a hunger strike tn 25 Cross centres across Denmark on Wednesday In protest at expulsions of Palestinians to Lebanon Red Cross official Lars Chemnitz said reports AFP from Copenhagen
The protestors said they would maintain their fast until the government gave them guarantees tlwt the expulsions would slop
UnUi 1989 Palestinians automatically received political asylum status here but since normalisation in Lebanon. Denmark has begun treating Palestinian requests for asylum on a case by case basts and rejecting an IncreaWng number
Hungary sign accord with 8. Africa :
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