There has been a flurry of diplomatic activity designed to achieve an Israel-Palestinian treaty prior to US President Bill Clinton's January 20 departure from the White House. On January 3, the White House announced that
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SYDNEY — One hundred and fifty people rallied outside the Australian Defence Force headquarters here on January 20 to support self-determination for the Indonesian province of Aceh. The action coincided with a self-determination
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Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product of uranium enrichment. Enriched uranium contains a greater percentage of the uranium-235 isotope than natural uranium, whereas the DU by-product contains less uranium-235 (and more uranium-238).
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Two shockwaves have hit the Central American country of El Salvador in the first weeks of January. One, a massive earthquake which measured 7.6 on the Richter scale, struck on January 13 and killed more than 600 people, devastating
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BERKELEY — California's experiment with deregulating electricity is on its last legs. "Deregulation is dead", declared Public Utilities Commissioner Carl Wood. And from the governor to the PUC to the legislature, almost everyone
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SEOUL — Delegates attending the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions' 19th congress met at the Olympic Park wrestling stadium here on January 18 to elect a new leadership. While KCTU congresses meet each year, a new leadership is
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Among the colourful revellers of Allenby street, in crowded restaurants of merry-making Tel Aviv nights, a vision came to me, a vision of an angel in battle-dress, chalking up on a wall three words: Mene, Tekel, ufarsin. My
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EAST TIMOR: UN agency workers go on strikeDILI Workers at three World Food Program warehouses here took strike action on January 8 and then went to the headquarters of the WFP the next day when the agency took no
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NORTHERN IRELAND: South Armagh the militarised zoneHow many days of normality have you gained because the checkpoints on the border aren't there anymore, because honest people can go to a pub or a school or a
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In a dramatic political move, the ruling military government has allowed ex-prime minister Nawaz Sharif to leave Pakistan for Saudi Arabia with 19 family members. Sharif had been sentenced to 21 years imprisonment for trying to
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Speculation is increasing that, after the stalemate that occurred at the first round of talks in October, the federal government and representatives of the East Timorese are readying to compromise on the future of the Timor Gap Treaty
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This year, rushing to the head of the pack of irresponsible biotech companies was the French corporation Aventis, the maker of Cry9C corn, sold under the name StarLink. Earlier this year, StarLink corn —