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Farrakhan arrives in Baghdad; Louis Farrakhan, the leader of US black Muslims, visited Baghdad on Wednesday for talks with Iraqi officials and may meet with Saddam Hussein, the Iran News daily reported, AP reports from Tehran.
The newspaper, in a report to be published in Thursday's edition and made available to The Associated Press, said Farrakhan went to the Iraqi capital from Tehran on Tuesday night. He Is expected to return Thursday night, the report said.
China adds 12.7m more people in *95: Chinese census takers say the country added 12.71 million people to its swollen population last year in a slowing of the nation s growth rate. AP reports'from Beijing.
The State Statistical Bureau said Wednesday a census of 1 per cent of the population taken on October 1 showed that China had 1.207.780,000 people. Although the figure is 6.5 per cent larger than the tally from the July 1,1990, census, the annual growth rate during those five years cooled to 1.21 per cent. 0.34 percentage points lower than in the previous five year period, the bureau said.
7 arrested in Niger: Seven people have I been arrested in Niger for trying to obtain weapons in order to civerthrow the new military leadership. Interior Minister Idl Ango Omar said on Wednesday. Reuter says from Niamey.
He told state television the detainees included two close associates of deposed civilian President Mahamane Ousmane.
Samper accused of fraud: ibe public prosecutor presented Congress with charges that could lead to impeachment proceedings against President Ernesto Samper for allegedly accepting drug money In his 1994 campaign. AP reports from Bogota.
It was the biggest blow yet to Colombia's president. Prosecutor Alfonso Valdlvieso issued a forma] denunciation of the president on Wednesday, asking that Samper be charged with illicit enrichment, electoral fraud, falsifying documents and complicity.
Suha slams genocide of Jews in WWH: Suha Arafat, wife of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, on Wednesday denounced the genocide of Jews during the World War II. AFP reports from Paris.
"It is a crime, one of the biggest crimes of the 20th century, the crime against the Jews in.the gas chambers." she said on the Franco-German cultural television channel Arte.
Juppe in Moscow: French Prime Minister I Alain Juppe arrived in Moscow on Wednesday at the start of a three-day official visit centered around talks on the economy with his Russian counterpart Viktor Chernomyrdin. Reuter reports from-Moscow.
Upper, who spent the evening at the Blshio theatre with his wife, will not see President Boris Yeltsin. Yeltsin is tn his home city of Yekaterinburg in the Urals where he Is expected to announce yesterday that he will seek reelection in June.
Strong quake hits Japa a: A strong I earthquake .with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 rocked a remote group of Japanese Islands. 1.000 kilometres (620 miles) south of Tokyo on Thursday, the Central Meteorological Agency said. AP reports from Tokyo.
There were no immediate reports of damage or injuries on Chlchijlma and Hahajima islands, which have a combined population of 2,000.
11 Mafia agents held in Sicily:
Anti-Mafia agenfe working under "Operation St. Valentine" arrested 11 mob suspects Wednesday in a crackdown in southeastern Sicily, AP reports from Siracusa, Sicily.
The suspects are accused of taking part in murders, illegal firearms deals, thefts, arson and extortion, from 1990 to 1994, the ANSA news agency reported.
18 more executed in China: au thorities in Shanghai have executed 18 criminals in the biggest mass execution in the city since 1990, the Wen Hui Bao newspaper reported yesterday. Reuter reports from Shanghai. ,
The paper said 18 were found guilty in separate cases of murder, armed robbery, rape, theft and other crimes and were sentenced at three public rallies on Tuesday and ^Vednesday.