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Pakistan ratifies CWC: Pakistan ye,, terday ratified the International Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), the government announced, AFP says from Islamabad.
The convention, which entered into force in April 1977. bas development, production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. Pakistan's instrument of ratification to the CWC was to be deposited with the Secretary General of the United Nations in New York yesterday, the announcement said. The country had signed the CWC in January 1993.
World's tallest man seriously ill: World's tallest man, Alam Channa, seriously ill due to renal failure, has appealed for help from public for his treatment abroad. PTI reports from Islamabad.
Channa. 44 and standings at 7 ft 8 inches, is currently under treatment at the Shifa International Hospital here for a dam-S’ed left kidney. Doctors have advised him treatment in the nited Spates which would cost him nearly one lakh US dollar.
Thai village headman kills 6s AThaf village headman, enraged over being investigated for, Corruption, killed six local officials and wounded two others when he opened fire with a shotgun in a district office, local papers reported Tuesday. AP reports from Bangkok.
Veera Jitiantuk, 42. a village headman in Chaiyaphum Erovince. 275 kilometers (171 miles) northeast of Bangkok, urst into a room in the district office on Monday at 10 am where 21 officials were meeting and unleashed a barrage with his shotgun. He then walked among the wounded, shooting them at close range before fleeing the scene. The Nation newspaper quoted witnesses as saying. The two wounded officials were hospitalised, but their conditions were not known.
Pavarotti honoured in UK: ui-ciano Pavarotti received yet another honour Monday but this one wasn't for his singing, AP reports from London.
The superstar tenor was awarded a special achievement trophy at the Gramophone Awards in recognition of his work to raise 5 million pounds (dlrs 8 million) for the orphaned children of Bosnia. Legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich received the lifetime achievement award for his outstanding contribution to classical music.
Fire claims 5 in Germany: a 32-year-old man and his four children died in a fire at their home in Oberhausen in western Germany, police said. AFP reports from Oberhausen.
The children, two boys and two girls, were aged from one year to 16. The mother. 40, was seriously hurt but survived. The fire apparently started in the living room of the house and then spread upstairs, surorising the family. The house was completely ablaze when firemen arrived. Police do not suspect arson.
2 Israelis arrested in Cairo: two Israelis were arrested in Cairo while they were filming bridge deemed by the authorities to be of strategic importance, police said yesterday, AFP reports from Cairo.
Soliman Dahduh and Yussef Daud, both of the Muslim druze sect, were picked up on Sunday after they were seen filming the Imbaba bridge in Cairo's northern suburbs with a video camera, said the source. The pair were arrested by police guarding the bridge, and are being questioned by interior ministry security services.
Yemeni president in Jordan: King Hussein, frustrated by the stalled Mideast talks and enraged by a bungled Israeli spy drama, said Monday his outlook had changed three years after signing a peace treaty with Israel. AP reports from Amman.
"It was an encouraging start, full of hope, that our peace treaty will be a step towards a bigger deed a comprehensive peace," Hussein said. "1 can't say the climate now is the same as three years ago." Hussein said at 'a joint news conference with .Visiting Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh.
French newsman De Virieu dies: Francois-Henri de Virieu. a popular figure in French television news who was later elected mayor of a Paris suburb, has died, the Marly-le-Rol City Hall said Monday. He was 65, AP reports from Paris.
De Virieu died of complications from pancreatic cancer Sunday night at his home in Marly-le-Roi, where he was elected mayor in 1995 after a 37-year career in print and television journalism. De Virieu, the long-time host of presidents and ^prime ministers bn the weekly television news magazine.