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11 Pak rly officials suspended: Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif suspended eleven senior railway officials Saturday after an initial inquiry Into the Ghotkl train accident in which scores of people were killed a week ago. AFP from Islamabad says.
The suspended officials Include the Chief Operating Superintendent. the Chief Signals and Telecommunication Engineer, their two deputies and other senior officials from the concerned departments, the official Associated Press of Pakistan said.
it did not say why they were suspended.
The General Manager of Pakistan Railways and a number of officials posted at Ghotkl were already suspended.
Updike wins literary prize: us author John Updike on Sunday won one of Italy's most ^prestigious and lucrative literacy awards, the 50-million-lire n42.000-dollar) Scanno Prize, reports AP from Scanno.
) The prolific author was honoured for hts book “Trust Me.’ ! Updike has been the recipient of a number of literary ' awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, but joked with organizers tliat with most awards “you can't send your kids to college.'
Former winners of the Scanno Award, presented in this mountain village In the Abruzzi region, include Peruvian author Mario Vargas Llosa and American Saul Bellow.
40,000 thirsty Afghans flee homes: At feast 40,000 Afghans trapped without water during a month of fighting between government troops and Muslim insurgents have fled their homes in western Herat Province, the guerrillas said Saturday, reports AP from Islamabad.
Most of the fleeing families were reportedly headed toward Iran or closer to the provincial capital of Herat, where water is available.
The areas hardest hit were Zindajun and Ghortan districts, about 60 kilometers (35 miles) west of Herat capital, near the Iranian border, said Najibullah Lefryc. a spokesman for the US-backcd resistance headquartered in Pakistan.
Claims by both sides in the 13-year-old Arar are often exaggerated and often Impossible to verify.
The Kabul government rarely acknowledges when Afghans flee their war-ravaged homeland.
Iran blasts Kuwait's policies: a leading Iranian newspaper Saturday blasted the Kuwaiti government’s post-war treatment of long-time resident Palestinians and Bedouins, AFP from Tehran says.
"Upwards of 100.000 people died In the process of restoring Sheikh Jaber al-Ahmed al-Sabah to power early tills year, and more than three months after Iraq was bombed out of Kuwait the outside world Is slowly realizing tliat the royal family has no intention of sharing power," the English-language Kaylion International commented.
Italian Jew stabbed in Jerusalem: Two Palestinian girls on Saturday, stabbed an Italian Jewish tourist In Arab East Jerusalem and later told police they had planned to kill a Jew,’ police said, AFP from January reports.
Rulo Ttzlano. 32. was studying Hebrew at a Tel Aviv school and considering immigrating to Israel.
He was returning from prayers at the wailing wall in the old city of Jerusalem when he was Intercepted by the two girls aged 17 and 15.
One of them stabbed him with a knife, wounding him in the chest and a thigh. The other girls's screams brought guards running who prevented her too from knifing the tourist
Labour leading over Tories : Britain’s Opposition Labour Party has opened up a 10-point lead over Prime Minister John Major’s Conservatives, according to an opinion poll Sunday, Reuter from London says.
The survey in the Observer newspaper showed labour had 45 per cent support against 42 per cent a month ago. while the Conservatives had slipped three points to 35 per cent.
Support for the centrist Liberal Democrats was unchanged at 16 per cent
The Conservatives arc struggling to pull the nation out of a sharp recession brought on by a credit squeeze imposed to beat inflation.
Albanian asylum seekers sent back: Twenty-eight adults and two children who sailed from this northeastern port Saturday became the first Albanian asylum-seekers to be sent buck by Italy under a new hardline policy, AP from Ravenna says.
The ferry Buona Speranza (Good Hope) was due to bring them to die Albanian port of Durrcs, across the Adriatic, on Sunday evening, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. The Albanians were rescued in the Mediterranean sea earlier in tlie week as they tried to make die crossing In boats of fortune. part of a new wave of asylum hopefuls who headed to Italy.
On Thursday. Foreign Minister Gianni De Michelis, while visiting in Albania, announced that Tirana's moves toward democracy meant Italy would no longer consider giving political asylum status to refugees from what was Europe's last hardline Stalinist state and diat any more would be refugees would be sent back.
Many of the more dian 600 arrivals of the past week were waiting on ferries In Ancona port Saturday night to be sent back to dieir Impoverished homeland.