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2 key Spanish ministers resign: Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez Wednesday accepted the resignation of his deputy premier and the defence minister over a phone tapping scandal, the government said, AFP reports from Madrid.
Deputy Prime Minister Narcis, Serra, a long-time colleague of Gonzalez, and Defence Minister Julian Garcia Var gas h id tendered their resignation when the scandal broke two weeks ago over revelations that the secret service tapped the phones of several senior political figures, including King Juan Carlos.
Thousands hit by Virginia floods: Flooding rivers and creeks chased thousands of people from their homes Wednesday as rain soaked Virginia for a sixth day, AP reports from Buena Vista, Virginia.
In the Blue Ridge Mountains, where 6.6 (16.7 cms) inches of rain fell in Buena Vista in the 24 hours ending at 5 pm, Michael Fowler was packing his pickup with the family's possessions when the spreading Maury River caught him.
Deng's statue in Tiananman Square: A larger-than-life bronze statue of Deng Xiaoping, China's paramount leader and "chief architect" of its economic explosion, is being installed in a Tiananman Square Museum, officials said yesterday, Reuter reports from Beijing.
The statue portrays the diminutive leader in 1992 during his barnstorming tour of south China, a journey that rejuvenated his flagging economic reforms after three years of heavy handed, anti-inflation austerity.
Chechen talks may move to Moscow: Peace talks between Chechen and Russian officials trying to end the six-month war in Chechnya could move to Moscow to include Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, a top mediator said Thursday, AP reports from Grozny.
Chernomyrdin’s direct involvement would signal major commitment by the Russian leadership toward resolving the conflict in the breakaway southern republic. Chernomyrdin played a key role in ending the recent hostage crisis in the southern city of Budyonnvsk.
Mexican minister resigns The most powerful member of President Ernesto Zedillo's Cabinet resigned Wednesday, but authorities who announced the second major shakeup in the fledgling government gave no reason, AP reports from Mexico City.
Presidential spokesman Carlos Salomon said on national television that Zedillo had accepted the resignation of Este-. ban Moctezuma Barragan as secretary of the Interior Ministry.
UN soldier killed in Sarajevo: a French peacekeeper died and two others were slightly injured when his armoured car ran over an anti-tank mine in Sarajevo early yesterday morning, a UN spokesman said, AFP reports from Sarajevo.
Maior General Dubois said the French armoured person nel carrier was blown up as it left Sarajevo on a road regularly used by UN vehicles. The explosion happened at 4.00 am (0200 GMT), 150 metres (yards) from a French checkpoint. The soldier died of shrapnel injuries.
Chandrika turns 50: Sri Lankan President Chandrika B Kumaratunga will celebrate her 50th birthday quietly yesterday with her family members, her office said, PTI reports from Colombo.
The president will spend the day out of Colombo with her two children. She will attend religious ceremonies held to invoke blessings on the country, people and the security forces.
Russia to halt search for Basayev: Russia agreed Wednesday to abandon its search for rebel Chechen commander Shamyl Basayev, but indicated it •would not give ground on more sensitive issues such as the constitutional status of Chechnya, AFP reports from Grozny.
Russian negotiators reached an agreement on Basayev with their Chechen counterparts, who assured delegates that the separatist commander, wanted in Moscow for leading a raid two weeks ago on the southern Russian town of Budennovsk, was no longer in Russia.
Noted dance conductor Kurtz dies: Conductor Efrem Kurtz, who came to fame working with American modern dance pioneer Isadora Duncan and collaborated with some of the greatest names in Russian ballet, has died, AP reports from London
Kurtz, who was 94, was born in Russia but spent all his adult life in the west mostly in Germany, Britain and the United States, where he took American citizenship in 1944 Mob-cop clash claims 14 in Mexico: Fourteen people were killed and 18 others injured Wednesday when police and a group of squatters clashed in Guerrero state, officials said, AFP reports from Acapulco. Mexico.
Four police officers were among those killed in the con frontation in Aguas Blancas, a town just 36 kilometres (22 miles) outside this Pacific resort city, authorities said.
Anti-slavery task force in Brazil: A century after a royal decree freed Brazil's slaves the government is still trying to do away with forced labour, AP reports from Brasilia
To that end. President Fernando Henrique Cardoso an nounced the creation of a high-level task force to free the "salves of modern Brazil" and punish those who use salve labour
ROK dissident visits DPRK:Awtii known female South Korean dissident leader illegally traveled to North Korea, following her late husband’s footsteps, government officials said Thursday, AP reports from Seoul.
Park Yong-gil, a Christian activist, went to the North in order to attend ceremonies Saturday marking the first an-niversarv of the death of late North Korean leader Kim II Sung, her son told reporters
Anti-N protesters held in USA: Twenty anti nuclear protesters were arrested Wednesday after blocking the entrance to a Smithsonian Institution exhibit on the Enola gay, the plane that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, AFP reports from Washington
The 20, part of a group of several dozen demonstrators inside and outside the museum from a coalition of peace and anti-nuclear activist groups, were charged with creating a "public nuisance' *