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2 Tajik national guards killed: Unidentified gunmen have killed two Tajik servicemen in the latest in a series of killings of military personnel in this Central Asian state, military sources said yesterday, Reuter reports from Dushanbe.
Two members of President Imomali Rakhamonov's na tional guard were shot dead on Sunday in the town of ‘ Kofirnikhon, 20km (12 miles) east of the Capital Dushanbe.
A child was also killed.
Riot claims 2 in Ukraine: At least two people were killed when ethnic Tatars rioted in Ukraine's Crimean peninsula on Sunday, burning down shops and taking a police chief hostage, police said, Reuter reports fromSimeferopol, Ukraine.
Ukrainian army and national guard units were sent to the eastern port of Feodosia to restore order when the riot erupted after the funeral of two Crimean Tatars killed last week by racketeers.
Hutu militiamen kill 12 in Burundi: Sporadic gunfire was reported ih two suburbs of Burundi's capital Sunday, a day after Hutu militiamen killed at least a dozen people in an attack on a Tutsi neighbourhood, AP reports from Nairobi.
There were explosions overnight in the hills overlooking the city and fighting in the Hutu neighbourhood of Ka-menge and the Tutsi neighbourhood of Citiboke, a resident of Kamenge said by telephone.
34 more executed in China: Thirty four drug traffickers were executed in southern China over the weekend, an official report said Monday, AP reports from Beijing.
The executions took place in Guangxi Zhuang Au tonomous Region, which borders Vietnam, the China Daily reported.
Former US chief justice dies: Warren Burger the former chief justice of the United States, died on Sunday after a long illness, a supreme court spokeswoman said, Reuter reports from Washington.
He was 87 and the cause of death was congestive heart failure, the spokeswomen said. She said he had been in failing health for the past year.
Fire destroys Pak power station:
A huge blaze destroyed a power station in second largest Pakistan city Lahore late Sunday, plunging several million residents into darkness, official sources said, AFP reports from Lahore.
The fire began at a furnace oil store at around dusk.
Russian spy held in Karachi
Pakistani intelligence has arrested a Russian national allegedly on a spying mission in the country, officials and news reports said yesterday, AFP says from Islamabad.
Interior Minister Naseerullah Babar, quoted by the official Associated Press of Pakistan, said an agent of Russian secret service was caught while taking pictures of a sensitive installation in Karachi. No comment was immediately ■ available from the Russian embassy here in Islamabad.
Taiwan appeals for UN membership: President Lee Teng-hui urged the United Nations Monday to find a way to readmit Taiwan as the world body marks its 50th anniversary, AP reports from Taipei.
Lee accused the United Nations of depriving Taiwan's 21 ,million people of their share in its political, economic, cultural and social activities. I
' "It is high time the United Nations faces this issue seriously and searches fdr a solution,” Lee said in a message to the world body.
France banned from NZ food fair: France was yesterday banned from Wellington's wine and food festival in protest against its plans to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific, AFP reports from Wellington
France was to be the guest country its products displayed in the October festival but has been told it is no longer welcome, and all French products have been banned.
40 Hamasmen held in Gaza: Palestinian police arrested at least 40 Hamas hardliners including five of the organisation's top leaders in a dawn crackdown today after a suicide bombing in the Gaza Strip, AFP reports from Gaza City.
The Islamic resistance movement Hamas said two of its founders — Ibrahim al-Yazuri and Mohammad Shama — were held along with Mahamud Zahar, Sheikh Ahmed Bahr and Sheikh Ahmed Nimr, ‘three of the leading Muslim figures on the strip.
Filipina maid jailed in UAE: a court jailed a 16-year-old Filipina maid for seven years for stabbing to death her employer who raped her, AFP reports from AI-Ain, United Arab Emirates.
Sarah Balabagan was found guilty of manslaughter by the court, which recognised that she had been raped by her Emirati employer, Mohammad Abdallah al-Baloushi. She could have faced the death penalty if she had been found guilty of premeditated murder.
FIS for resuming peace talks: Leaders of the banned Islamic Salvation Front (FIS) have contacted the Algerian government about resuming a dialogue bn ending the fundamentalist rebellion, state-run television said Sunday, quoting government sources, AFP reports from Algiers.
It did not identify the Islamic leaders or say how the government responded.
Quake shakes S California: An earthquake measuring 4.9 on the Richter Scale shook large swaths of Southern California before dawn yesterday but there were no immediate reports of major damage or injuries, Reuter reports from Los Angels.
The quake, which struck at 1:40 am pdt (0840 gmt), was centered about eight miles south-southwest of Castaic, which lies about 35 miles north-northeast of Los Angeles, according to seismologists at the California Institute of Technology.