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=09=09=09=09Ceasefire at last?
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=09=09=09=09A Palestinian suicide-bomber killed 20 Israeli youngsters at a =
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discotheque. Israel held back from massive retaliation after Yasser Arafat=
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committed his forces to an unconditional ceasefire. George Tenet, the CIA=
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director, arrived to help promote this tentative pause in the violence, but=
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Hamas spokesman denied that there was a ceasefire.=20
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=09=09=09=09See article: A fragile Israeli-Palestinian ceasefire [IMAGE]
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=09=09=09=09The king of Nepal and nine other members of the royal family we=
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apparently by the crown prince, Dipendra. He later died from self-inflicted=
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wounds. Curfews were introduced in the capital, Katmandu, after riots by=20
Nepalis confused by contradictory stories and demanding the truth about the=
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=09=09=09=09Makiko Tanaka, Japan=01,s outspoken foreign minister, embarrass=
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by expressing doubts about President George Bush=01,s missile-defence plans=
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=09=09=09=09Voters decide
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=09=09=09=09Voters in Britain went to the polls in a general election, whic=
h Tony Blair=01,s=20
Labour Party looked likely to win easily. Harder questions: would William=
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Hague survive as leader of the opposition Tory party? And would Mr Blair ca=
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a referendum on the euro next year?=20
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=09=09=09=09Alejandro Toledo, an economist of Andean Indian descent, was el=
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president of Peru, narrowly defeating Alan Garcia, a populist former=20
president.
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=09=09=09=09See article: The tasks awaiting Alejandro Toledo [IMAGE]
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=09=09=09=09Ireland held a referendum on the European Union=01,s Nice treat=
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once-confident Yes side still expecting victory but worried by a sudden ris=
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=09=09=09=09Silvio Berlusconi was formally invited by Italy=01,s president =
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majority voted in favour of independence from the rest of Somalia.=20
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=09=09=09=09James Hahn, the city attorney, won a run-off to become the new =
mayor of Los=20
Angeles, beating his fellow Democrat, Antonio Villaraigosa, who had hoped t=
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=09=09=09=09Haiti=01,s president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, agreed to hold ne=
w parliamentary=20
elections. In return, the Organisation of American States said it would hel=
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Haiti obtain $500m of suspended aid.
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time in six years. The Democratic leader, Tom Daschle, promised to adopt a=
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=09=09=09=09Fighting continued in Bangui, the capital of the Central Africa=
n Republic,=20
after last week=01,s failed coup against President Ange-F,lix Patass,.=20
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=09=09=09=09In Colombia, the FARC guerrillas and the government began an ex=
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prisoners, the first practical result of more than two years of peace talks=
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=09=09=09=09See article: A modest peace deal in Colombia [IMAGE]
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=09=09=09=09Prime Minister Ljubco Georgievski again threatened to declare a=
formal state=20
of war in Macedonia after ethnic-Albanian rebels, seeking to widen the=20
conflict to an area hitherto unaffected, killed five government soldiers=20
north-west of Skopje, the capital.
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d, reassured NATO=20
allies that no hasty reduction of American forces was planned in the Balkan=
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President Bush said that America would reopen talks with North Korea, broke=
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off three months ago, to discuss missiles, nuclear concerns and conventiona=
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=09=09=09=09See article: Difficult times in America's relations with Europe=
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=09=09=09=09A deal seemed near to overcoming Turkish objections to NATO co-=
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the European Union=01,s rapid-reaction force.=20
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=09=09=09=09Nine of the 20 hostages held by Muslim rebels in the Philippine=
s escaped=20
after fighting between their Abu Sayyaf captors and Philippine troops.
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=09=09=09=09Chenjerai Hunzvi, the leader of Zimbabwe=01,s =01&war veterans=
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Calling himself Hitler, he had led violent attacks on Robert Mugabe=01,s=20
opponents and encouraged the occupation of white-owned farms. Mr Mugabe=20
declared him a national hero.
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=09=09=09=09France=01,s prime minister, Lionel Jospin, admitted that he had=
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Trotskyite organisation=01*a fact he had previously denied.
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=09=09=09=09See article: France's prime minister has a past [IMAGE]
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=09=09=09=09President Vojislav Kostunica of Yugoslavia appealed to his alli=
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Montenegrin party not to block a draft law that would allow ex-President=20
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=09=09=09=09See article: Serbia and Slobodan Milosevic's fate [IMAGE]
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=09=09=09=09An American federal judge ruled that the execution to Timothy M=
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