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Gorbachev to sue journalist:
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev Is to sue a television journalist who accused him of Involvement in a hardline communist coup attempt last August, central television reported Tuesday AFP reports from Moscow "I declare that everything he has said Is false and therefore I have asked the prosecutor s office to start proceedings for slander against Belocertaev." Gorbachev said In a letter sent to television director Yegor Yakovlev
The journalist. whose first name was not available, made his allegations In a programme broadcast an January 17.
David Levy arrives in Beijing :
Israeli Foreign Minister David Levy, arriving to establish diplomatic relations with China, said Wednesday that cooperation between the two countries will contribute to world peace. AP from Beijing says
This Is a moment we have awaited for a long time." Levy said after stepping off an Israeli government plane, whose crew hung a blue and white Israeli flag from the cockpit
Levy is the first Israeli foreign minister ever to visit China, a longtime champion of the PalesUnlan cause He was met by Vice Foreign Minister Yang Fuehang
Before leaving Jerusalem, he confirmed that he and Chinese officials will sign a protocol Friday establishing formal Ues. Hts announced schedule before Friday consists largely of sightseeing, including trips to the Great Wall and the former Imperial palace.
Russia to work with UN on N-safety:
Russia has pledged to cooperate with the United Nations on nuclear safety, the Vienna-based international Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Tuesday, Reuter reports from Vienna. IAEA Director-General Hans Blix wrote to Russian President Boris Yeltsin last week, offering to help Russia handle nuclear material from dismantled atomic weapons
The leaders of Russia will make every effort to ensure that the collaboration between our country and the IAEA continues to flourish tn all important areas of the agency's activities." the Russian authorities said tn a reply issued by the IAEA.
The letter did not specify whether this Included disposal of material from redundant weapons.
Violence claims 7 in S. Africa :
Gunmen killed seven people, six of them from the same family, tn a black township in South Africa's Natal Province, police said on Tuesday. Reuter reports from Johannesburg.
A spokesman said a group of men wielding AK-47 rifles burst into a house in Umbumbulu on Monday night and shot six family members, then killed another person tn a neighbouring house.
The motive was not immediately clear, the police spokesman Mid.
Israel lobs shells into Lebanon :
Israeli artillery lobbed shells into a southern Lebanon village for around an hour late on Tuesday, a security service source said here. AFP reports from Lebanon.
He said a tank and howitzers based inside Israel's self-declared Buffer Zone adjoining the Israeli border, targeted the locality of Talelt Zighlay. near the village of Mimes.
It was not immediately known if there were casualties. The shelling followed several attacks by Lebanese groups on Israeli forces and their proxies in the Buffer Zone in the past three days
Sydney police open fire on sharks:
Swooping low over the water tn a helicopter Sydney police opened fire on a pack of sharks on Wednesday in an attempt to scare them from hundreds of swimmers. Reuter reports from Sydney.
Police fired five shots from a revolver at the pack of about 10 sharks as they swam some 50 to 100 metres (160 to 330 feet) off Queenscllff beach on Sydney s northern peninsula, beach inspector Murray McGlenchy told Reuter.
The helicopter flew low over the pack to try to scare them away and when that didn't work they came back and let off a few rounds. McGlenchy said.
Police said none of the shots hit the sharks which were later herded out to sea.