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Army officer jailed in Lanka: a senior military officer who stole money from his soldiers' rations must serve 10 years in jail, a Judge has said. AP reports from Colombo.
Anny Col. Chandrasiri Karunaratne was convicted Monday on two charges of criminal breach of trust by High Court Judge Shiranee Tiliekawardene. Karunaratne commanded the Second Volunteer Battalion of the Gemunu Watch Regiment. Prosecutors said Karunaratne had embezzled about 366.000 rupees (6.000 dollars) in 1987 when his unit was stationed in the southern port city of Galle.
Gore meet Kazak president: Seeking to forge closer relations with Another energy-rich Caspian Sea nation. Vice President Al Gore met wltn the president of Kazakstan. AP reports from Washington.
President Nursultan Nazarbeyev. whose central Asian nation hosted Hillary Rodham Clinton last week, sees President Bill Clinton on Tuesday. Clinton sent a memo to the secretaries of state and energy, approving a cooperative agreement with Kazakstan to improve the safety of Its nuclear reactors and find peaceful, civilian uses for its existing infrastructure.
Ramos arrives in Japan: ™uPp. nes President Fidel Ramos arrived in Japan Tuesday on the first leg of a 15-day foreign trip that will also take him to the United States and Canada, AP reports from Tokyo.
Ramos will attend a groundbreaking ceremony for the Philippines' new embassy building before receiving an honorary doctorate from Japan's prestigious Waseda University later in the day. In the evening he Is scheduled to have dinner with officials of several major Japanese corporations.
9 die as water deposit bursts in Spain: At least nine people died and 30 more were injured when a giant water deposit burst and sent thousands of gallons (liters) of water flooding though streets in Melilla, a Spanish city in north Africa, AP reports from Melilla: Spain.'
• Two children and pregnant.women, possible their mother, were among the dead, the government's representative In Melilla. Enrique Beamud, told reporters. One of the injured was in a serious condition in Melilla s Hospital Comarcas, he said. The water container, which held some 25,000 liters of water (6.500 gallons), burst around 12.30pm Monday and swamped streets in the busy market area of El Poligono and El Rastro. said local government spokesman Arturo Ramirez.
Police defuse bomb in Ireland: m-sh bomb disposal experts deactivated a bomb planted in a shopping centre in Dundalk, a town near the border with the British-ruled province of Northern Ireland, police said Tuesday. AP reports from Dundalk. Ireland.
The Loyalist Volunteer Force, a Protestant paramilitary splinter group opposed to the cease-fire in Northern Ireland, telephoned news organizations in Belfast to cla(m responsibility for the bomb, which was made up of a canister attached by wire to two batteries. The caller said other bombs had been planted in the town. 45 miles (70 kilometres) north of Dublin, in a taxi office and on the main Dublin-Belfast rail line.
253 arrested in SA: South African police' assisted by the army, swooped on an industrial suburb of Johannesburg Monday arresting 253 people as part of a crackdown on burgeoning crime in the city, police said. AFP reports from Johannesburg.
Those arrested included murder suspects, individuals wanted for armed robbery, drug trafficking, attempted murder and traffic violations, the police said. During the arrests the police also detained 67 illegal Immigrants and seized a quantity of weapons including two assault rifles. A handful of pistols and hunting rifles.
Priest abducted in Philippines: a Belgian priest was abducted Tuesday on his way home from a farewell party for another foreign priest who was recently released after being kidnapped by former Muslim guerillas In the southern Philippines, officials said. AP reports from Marawi, Philippines
The Rev. Bernard Maes, a 57-year-old Belgian missionary, was forced into a car by two armed men shortly after leaving a convent in Marawi city in Lanao del Sur province, said the Rev. Angel Luciano, superior of Maes' congregation.
5 die in snowfalls in Russia: Five people died Tuesday in road accidents caused by heavy snow on Sakhalin Island In Russia's Far East, police said. AP reports from Moscow.
Roads were covered with ice and fog that further Impeded traffic, Sakhalin road police said, according to.the ITAR-Tass news agency. Three key roads linking the Island’s main city of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk with other areas were closed for traffic, the report said.