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Benazir to visit France: Baklan spume Minister Benazir Bhutto Is to make an official visit to France from November 2 to 5 to boost bilateral cooperation, the French Foreign Ministry announced on Friday, AFP reports from Paris.
Bhutto will be welcomed by President Francois Mitterrand who visited Islamabad in February 1990. and Premier Edouard Balladur, as well as leading members of the French cabinet and businessmen.
Nepali Congress Party man slain: An activist of the Nepali Congress Party was killed in the first reported case of election-related violence during campaigning for the Nov. 15 polls, party officials said on Saturday. AP reports from Kathmandu.
Hlnilal Pokharel died of bead injuries on Thursday, one day after he was attacked by unidentified people as he was returning home frdm campaigning in Dang, a town 300 kilometers south of Kathmandu. Raj Kumar Shanna of the Congress party said. " .
8 killed in N Delhi blast: A truck carrying I chemicals to a warehouse exploded, killing eight people and the blast destroyed half a dozen-cars parked nearby, a news agency said on Saturday. AP reports from New Delhi.
Five workers died Instantaneously when the nitrocellulose barrels they were unloading exploded on Friday. Three others died in hospital on Saturday. Press Trust of India said.
Kim Jong-Il's message to N Koreans: Kim Jong-Il. heir-apparerit to late North Korean President Kim Il-Sung, has sent a message to the North Korean people, pledging to do his best for the country, a report from Pyongyang said on Saturday. AFP reports from Tokyo.
"I will, as ever, devote my all to the country and the people, bearing deep in mind our people's absolute trust in and expectation for our party.” the Junior Kini said on Friday, according to a Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) report monitored here.
IA pilots observe strike: •iundreds of I passengers were stranded at airports nationwide on Saturday when pilots of the state-owned Indian Airlines refused to fly to protest management policies, AP reports from New Delhi.
More than one-fourth of the flights had been cancelled because pilots called in to say they were sick and could not fly, an airline spokesman said.
Junior pilots of the Indian Airlines began the protest on Friday against the policy to reinstate pilots who had quit to join private airlines to Increase their salaries threefold. 257,000 refugees in Kenya The I United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) yesterday announced that the number of refugees in Kenya now runs at 257.001}.'Xinhua reports from Nairobi.
In an interview with the Kenya News Agency at .the Kakuma refugee camp in Turkana district of Kenya on Friday, the UNHCR "representative Albert Peters said that the reduced numbers of refugees have resulted in the closure of six refugee camps in the country.
Guerillas attack Israeli posts: Muslim militant guerillas attacked four Israeli posts in south Lebanon yesterday and the Israelis fired back, security sources said. Reuter reports from Marjayoun.
They said {he posts at All Taher. Dabsheh. Suweida and Touhra on the edge of Israeli occupation zone in south Lebanon came under machine-gun and anti-tank rocket fire from guerillas outside the zone. There was no initial report of casualties.
Uranium seized in Russia; Customs I officials confiscated 160 tons of unrefined uranium ore being transported across Russia without proper documentation, news agencies said on Saturday. AP reports frpm Moscow.
The ore. packed in nine containers, was being shipped from Tajikistan to the United States, the ITAR-Tass and Interfax news agencies said, quoting officials of the Ministry for Emergency Situations. •
26 UNITA rebels killed: Angolan I government forces killed 26 UNITA rebels in fighting off a rebel attack in central Angola. Angop news agency, monitored In Lisbon reported on Friday. AFP reports from Lisbon
Brigadier General Simione Mucune. commander of the central Angolan Ble region, said the clashes occurred On Thursday in the town of Kukema. near Kulto. Bie's main city Art theft in-Zurich: Paintings by Raphael. I Van Dyck and Brouwer, possibly worth millions of dollars If genuine, have been stolen from a private art collection in Ztirich. police said on Friday. AP reports-from Zurich.
However, art experts in the city believe the stolen oil paintings may be fqjces. The break-in at a private house took place a week ago but authorities did not release the Information until Friday.
Quake rocks Taiwan: a m^n undersea earthquake measuring 5.7 on the Richter scale rocked Taiwan yesterday but no damage or casualties were immediately reported, the Central Weather Bureau said. AFP reports from Taipei.
The tremor, which struck at 7:51 am (2351 GMT), rattled windows and shook high rise buildings as corilmuters travelled to work, the bureau said.
France expels Turkish Imam: France deported a Muslim imam to his native Turkey on Friday saying he belonged to an extremist Islamic group with ties in Germany and Algeria officials said. Reuter reports from Strasbourg
A spokesman tor the local prefecture Identified the expelled imam as Osman Sahina and said he was arrested al a car factory id eastern France where he worked and was pul on a flight toTurkey.
Chinese team off to Antarctica: a modern fee breaker imported from Ukraine has set sail for1 Antarctica, significantly extending the reach of China's polar research, the official Xinhua news agency said yesterday. Reuter reports from Beijing.
The 17 900-horsepower. 10.500 deadweight tohne "Snow Dragon. Chinas first Ice-breaker, left Shanghai on Friday with a group of Chinese polar scientists on board. Xinhua said. Japanese aid for Rwandans: The •Japanese government plans to provide four million dollars to buy food and medicine for refugees in Rwanda. JIJ1 press said yesterday AFP reports from Tokyo
It will be the first official Japanese financial aid for the refugees within Rwanda.