Flood leaves 22 dead in Iran :
Twenty-two people died Monday In Hooding triggered by torrential rain In western Iran, the Iranian news agency Irna reported Tuesday, reports AFP from Tehran.
The downpour also did material damage in several cities in the west and northwest, notably to telecommunications facilities. homes and vehicles.
Plea to stop Japanese aid to Burma: Japanese opposition leaders demanding the release of detained Burmese politician Aung San Suu Kyi said Tokyo should end all aid to Rangoon and put stronger pressure on its military government, report Reuter from Tokyo.
Japan supplies more than 70 per cent of Burma's foreign aid and Is its biggest supplier of imports.
Ths Japanese government should put pressure on the Myanmar (Burma) government', said Wakako Hironaka, an opposition government member of the Upper House.
He was speaking at a "Burma festival" in Tokyo on the day opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi should have gone to Oslo to pick up this year's Nobel Peace Prize.
Liberals form party in Kuwait:
a group of mostly Western-educated liberals announced Tuesday the formation of the first open political party in Kuwait, striving to start fighting for free speech and the right to gather for the 1992 elections, reports AP from Kuwait city.
They said their Kuwaiti Democratic Forum resulted from the Persian Oulf War. and people who worked underground during the resistance against the Iraqi occupation are determined to operate above ground now.
"We are carrying out our activities more openly," said Abdullah Ntbarl. the party's secretary-general. "This should allow us to attract more supporters."
The party is an attempt to unite various loosely allied groups of Arab nationalists, leftists and supporters of the Palestinian cause — ideas all discredited by the Gulf War. NIbari said the new party would concentrate more on regional
US to build schools for Haitians:
US troops will build schools and churches for more than 5.500 Haitian boat people living In canvas tentp and aircraft hangars at the US military base here, officials said Tuesday, reports AP from Guantanamo Bay.
Most of the Haitians were intercepted by US Coast Guard craft as they tried to Hee their Caribbean Island homeland tn aging, leaky fishing boats.
A federal appeals court in Atlanta Is to hear a government request Thursday for a ruling that would allow the United States to send most back to Haiti as falling to qualify for political asylum.
The United States says they left Haiti in search of US jobs.
US troops at Guantanamo Bay naval base meanwhile, are handing out hamburgers, administering AIDS blood tests, helping 51 pregnant women here to give birth, and processing Haitians who arrive clutching small bundles of clothes and
The troops also are trying to organise schools for the hundreds of children in the camp.
Farmers-police clash in Belgium :
Several hundred Belgian farmers clashed with police and looted a shopping district Tuesday as European leaders held a summit on political and economic union, reports AP/from Netherlands.
Several arrests were made, but no serious injuries were reported.
The farmers' demonstration was organised by the alliance of Belgian Farmers to protest projected cuts in the European Community's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) of farm supports.
EC farmers are facing subsidy cuts of at least 35 per cent tn negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement of Tariffs and Trade (CATT).
More than 1,000 protesters were bused into town, and then streamed into the city centre, tossing rocks, bottles and firecrackers at police and into shops.
Food riots claim 30 in Albania :
More than 30 people were killed when fire broke out after a hungry crowd rushed a storehouse. Albanian radio reported Tuesday, and a new Prime Minister was appointed to help the ’country deal with recent food riots, reports AP from Tirana.
President Ramiz Alla, announcing the appointment of Vilson Ahmeti as Prime Minister, said the new government s priorities would be to ensure adequate food supplies over the winter and stability until the next elections.
He did not specify a date for the elections.
The blase broke out after dusk Monday at Fushe-Arrez. SO kilometres (50 miles) north of the Albanian capital
The fire apparently began when some of the more than 3.000 people storming the local warehouse ht torches to see their way. said the report, citing local authorities in the Puka District.
At least 32 people were confirmed dead and the toll was tortaeas cleanup crews discovered more charred corpses, the report said.