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Gypsies slate Asylum rules:
Aoy-y rights group mi Friday denounced new German aaylum rute*. saying they were aimed specifically al the mass deportation of Gypsies. reports AP from Berlin
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Many Germans today are openly hostile to the group be cause of the large number of Gypsy beggars who get govern mentfinanced food and housing under the nation a asylum tew
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Menoka Thakur dead:
The ^and daughter of Abanlndarnath Tagore. Menoka Thakur, a noted exponent of Rabtndrnaangect died at her North Calcutta residence Saturday after a heart attack She was 76. reports PTI from Calcutta
Menoka began learning Rabtndraaangeet from a very early age at Santlnlketan.
She was a permanent member of the audition committee of the All India Radio and Doordarshan.
The Union Minister of State for Information and Broadcasting. Ajtt Kumar Pania and the state s Information and Cultural Minister. Buddhadev Bhattacharya have condoled her death
33 more freed in Myanmar:
Myanmar s military government released another 33 political prisoners Friday. the official radio Yangon reported, says AFP from Bangkok
The radio, in a broadcast monitored here, said the 32 men and one woman were freed from a provincial Jail in Ma Ubin. a souther Myanmar town.
None of the freed prisoners were Identified and the radio gave no details of their arrests
About 450 political prisoners have reportedly been re leased throughout the country by ruling military authorities since April, when the Junta announced it would gradually free detainees who were not considered a threat to national security.
15 die in Haiti explosion:
An explosion toppled a three-story building on a downtown comer packed with merchants and shopperr at midday Friday Officials said al least 15 people were killed and hundreds hurt, reports AP from Haiti.
Clouds of black smoke billowed from the wreckage as rescuers frantically pulled victims from the ruins.
The cause of the blast was not immediately known, but there whs no apparent political connection. Tensions are high nearly one year after the military coup that toppled popularly elected President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and sent him into exile.
Witnesses counted 10 bodies lined up on the sidewalk by police, who quickly cordoned off the area. Mayor Gerard Salomon told The Associated Press that at least 15 people were killed.
20 Tamil rebels killed:
Government troops captured a rebel-held town and killed 20 guerillas in a daylong operation in the northern Jaffna peninsula, officials said Saturday, reports AP from Colombo.
Three soldiers also were killed and 8 wounded In the offensive that began at dawn Friday and ended in the evening, said the officials of the Joint Operations Command In Colombo.
Ground troops backed by heavy air support advanced one mile south from the coastal town of Madagal to overrun the rebel-held town of Pandittiruppu, about 190 miles north of Colombo, the officials said.
Troops had captured Madagal on August 21.
An indefinite curfew Imposed at 6:00 am (0030 GMT) Friday In the Jaffna peninsula was lifted at 7:30 am (0200 GMT) the following day
More than 17.000 people have been killed since 1983 when Tamil rebels began fighting for an independent homeland in northeast Srl Lanka.