Iranian envoy arrives in Kabul: An Iranian envoy arrived in Kabul on Tuesday expressing support , for the embattled Afghan government s efforts to hold talks with Its opponents to end Civil War. the official Kabul radio reported. Reuter reports from Islamabad.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alaeddin Boroujerdi't talks with Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani covered current moves for peace talks and other political and economic matters, said the broadcast monitored in Islamabad. It said Borouierdi also held talks with Deputy Prime Minister Sayed Mohamrpad All Jaid and Foreign Minister Najibullah Lafraie.
3 Red Cross workers killed in Burundi: Gunmen ambushed and killed three Swiss Red Cross workers on Tuesday as the delegates returned from a supply mission in Burundi, a central African nation bloodied by ethnic, violence. AP reports from Geneva.
The three men had been delivering water and medical supplies to civilians and hospitals in the northern province of Cibitoke, the International Committee of the Red Cross,said. Their four-wheel-drive vehicle, marked with the Red Cross emblem, was attacked near the village of Mugina as the men were returning, to the capital Bujumbura Tuesday afternoon, spokesman Tony Burgener said.
US businessman detained in China: Chinese police have detained a US businessmaii. Willian Ping Chen, for the alleged import of banned goods and for evading customs checks, the Xinhua News Agency said yesterday. Reuter reports from Beijing.
Public security officials in Shanghai detained Chen on June 3. Xinhua said. Chinese authorities had already notified the US consulate in Shanghai or Chen’s detention, it said.
Drought strikes Namibia: Namibian President Sam Nujoma has declared his country drought-stricken. with about 180.000 people requiring food relief from the government and foreign donors, the Sapa News Agency reported Tuesday. AFP reports from Windhoek
Nujoma told a press conference Monday that his Svernment expects to spend 159.3 million Namibian dollar 5.5 million US),to provide food and water relief to people most affected by the drought. The Namibian leader said the Sovernment also hopes to raise about 171.3 million Namibian ollars (39.3 million US) from foreign donors to provide water to rural areas.
13 killed in Brazil road mishap: a truck Ipaded with cooking gas canisters smashed into a school bus in the Brazilian state of Goias, killing 11 students and the drivers of both vehicles, a television, report said. AP reports from Sao Paulo.
The accident occurred Monday near the city of Jaragua. 590 miles (950 kilometers) northwest of Sao Paulo, the Globo TV network reported Tuesday. Globo TV said the two drivers and 1 1 of the 26 students on the bus were killed. Eight students were injured. The network did not say what caused the accident nor whether the gas canisters exploded.' Cholera claims 700 in Sudan: An international medical aid agency said on Tuesday a cholera epidemic sweeping war-ravaged southern Sudan had killed at least 700 people in the last seven weeks. Reuter reports from Nairobi.
'The death toll .only represents the tip of the Iceberg as ■ many areas in South Sudan are inaccessible to relief workers due to the ongoing civil war." said the Belgian branch of Medecins Sans Frontierers (MSF-doctors without borders). In a statement, it reported more than 1.800 cases of Choldra in the past seven weeks. Out of these 360 people form Adok district alone had died. It did not give a breakdown of deaths in other districts or how it reached the total of at least 700. New US navy chief named: President Clinton lifts chosen Adm Jay L Johnson to succeed Adm Jeremy M ’Mike" Boorda. the Navy chief whose May 16 suicide shook the naval community, officials said Tuesday. AP reports from Washington.
The administration officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the Pentagon planned to make the announcement Wednesday. They said Clinton probably would meet with Johnson, the vice chief of naval operations, in an effort to bpost Navy morale. Defense Secretary William Parry had promised to get a successor-in place quickly to help the Navy recover from the suicide of the popular commander.
Former first deputy KGB chief dies: Georgy Tslnev, a former first deputy chairman of the KGB secret police, has died in Moscow at 88. an official said. AP reports from Moscow.
Tslnev died in Moscow on May 31. but the cause of death was not being announced, according to a duty officer at the Federal Security Service, one of the KGB’s successor organisations. Tslnev Joined the State Security Ministry, or MGB In 1953 and rose through the ranks of the agency, which later changed Its name to become the State Security Committee or KGB. said the officer, who declined to be named.