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Blizzards kill 42 in China: Severe I blizzards on China's remote Qlnghai Plateau have killed at least 42 people and injured nearly 40.000 others, an official report said Tuesday. AP reports from Beijing.
The unusually heavy snowfalls, which began in October, have endangered the lives of another 18,000 people in the northwestern part of Sichuan province, in western China, the newspaper China Daily reported. The government has launched a major relief effort to aid local herdsmen who are running short of food and fuel.
France sells missiles to Romania: France has sold missiles to Romania in the first such deal to an eastern bloc country since the fall of the Berlin Wall, a newspaper reported on Monday, AP says from Paris.
Le Monde said France recently sold an unspecified number of Majlc 2 air-to-air missiles to the Bucharest government. The Paris dally said the missiles would be used to arm Romania's fleet of MiG fighters. French defence contractors also have received a contract to supply Indonesia with an unknown number of Mistral surface-to-air missiles. Le Monde said.
Lightning kills 6 in Indonesia:
A mother and her five children were killed by lightning while they worked on their farm, a report said Monday. AP reports from Jakarta.
The mother. 28. and her children aged five months to 15 years, were struck Sunday, the official Antara news agency said.
The victims were residents of Jasa Mulia, a village in Irian Jaya about 3,640 kilometers (2.275 miles) southeast . of Jakarta, ft said.
5.3 kg heroin seized in Canada: The Canadian government said Monday that it had seized more than 5.3 kilograms of heroin and arrested a Jeweller from India. AFP reports from Ottawa.
The seizure, at Toronto's Pearson International Airport, followed the discovery of the drugs sewn into the waistbands of 26 pairs of trousers in the baggage of Rejinder Sethi. Sethi. 44. has been charged with importing a narcotic.
Iran offers help to China: 1™^ Monday it was ready to Tielp the victims of China s earthquake which killed at least 242 people and seriously injured 3,700, AP reports from Tehran.
The official Islamic Republic News Agency said Iran's offer of help came in a message from Foreign Minister All Akbar Velayatl to his Chinese counterpart. Saturday's magnitude 7 quake in China left 260,000 people homeless in freezing conditions.
32 killed in Brazilian road mishap: a bus carrying 51 people skidded on a rain-slicked highway and collided head-on with a lumber truck In northeastern Brazil, killing 32 people, police said Monday. AP reports from Rio de Janeiro.
The accident occurred Sunday near the town of Perltoro In Maranhao state, about 1.300 miles (2.092 kilometres) northeast of Rio. The bus’ was headed from the state capita! of Sao Luis to the town of Teresina in neighbouring Piaui state when the driver lost control on a curve and skidded into the oncoming lane, police said.
4 drown as Taiwanese boat sinks: Four people were killed and 24 were missing after a Taiwanese fishing boat sank off the northern coast, state television said yesterday. Reuter reports from Taipei.
It said the reason for the boat's sinking was not clear but added that it may have collided with another vessel near the small island of Peng Chia-Yu, about 70 km (44 miles) north of Taiwan.
Gunmen kill 9 in Thailand: Nine people were killed and three others wounded in northern Thailand when gunmen ambushed a truck and fired at it In what police said yesterday appeared to be a drug-related attack, Reuter reports from Bangkok.
Four or five gunmen fired at the truck with automatic rifles in the northern province of Nan. near the border with Laos, some 750 km (460 miles) north of Bangkok on Monday, police said.
Pope seeks Guatemalan peace:
Pope John Paul appealed to Guatemalans on Monday to make peace and end a bloody left-right struggle that has cost the lives of 140,000 people over the last three decades, Reuter says from Guatemala.
Arriving in cold, windy weather at the start of a week-long trip to Central America and Venezuela, the 75-year-old pontiff descended the steps from his aircraft slowly to a greeting from a young indigenous boy and girl.