The central news broadcasting started with two sport events – Boxing victory of Prince Nasim Hamid and Finnish Formula 1 driver Hakkinnen’s victory.
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383 persons died in the Mitch hurricane rampaging Central America.
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UN Security Council condemned actions of the Iraq Government regarding the termination of co-operation with UN Inspectors for Disarming Iraq.
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Humanitarian disaster in Kosovo is prevented for now. Still, NATO, assisted by Russia continues pressure on FRY President Milosevic to completely fulfil International Community demands on Kosovo. The Hague Tribunal accused FRY Government for avoiding to extradite the people indicted for war crimes. The Tribunal stated in their report to the UN Security Council, that FRY persistently refuses co-operation, and appealed on the International Community to take measures in order to enable co-operation from official Belgrade.
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The oldest astronaut John Glenn is in space for four days.
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Washington District Court opened investigation against independent state investigator, Kenneth Starr, under suspicion that his office illegally delivered the data on work of the Grand Jury in the procedure against President Bill Clinton.
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Association of European journalists in Athens condemned attacks on the freedom of speech in FRY and appealed on President Milosevic to abolish the recent Law on Information.
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first attempt. This also postponed the inauguration of the new President Poplasen who is supposed to take his oath before the Assembly. In this whole thing, the most difficult is for representatives of the CD Coalition that can decide on majority in the Assembly. They will not go with the SDS and the Radicals, but they also do not hide their displease with government of Milorad Dodik, who asked them, this time, to quit the co-chairman seat in the Assembly and the demand for participation in the government. This was obviously aimed to gain points with the electoral body of this entity. It is also interesting, which we found out from fully reliable sources, that the International Community representatives also appeared before the delegates with the same demand and that they are obviously trying to soften their wrong pre-electoral assessments now, in the implementation.
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Forensics experts team from Tuzla finished preliminary identification of 274 victims from the Glumina mass grave today.
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