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Bahrain and Guyana have decided to strengthen bilateral cooperation in various fields, according to a joint communique released in Manama, Bahrain this afternoon.
|
Bahrain Guyana to strengthen bilateral relations.
| 22 | 5 | 3,800,424 |
The Bosnian Presidency met today for its sixth session, with the dispute on the Council of ministers still unresolved.
|
Bosnian cabinet still not named.
| 18 | 4 | 3,800,425 |
President Robert Mugabe today donated 2,280 U. S. dollars to the capital account of the first ever Bank launched by local women.
|
Mugabe hails formation of women bank.
| 21 | 5 | 3,800,426 |
Cyprus President Glafcos Clerides said here today that his government has protested to the u.n. over the violation of its air space by Turkish f 21 fighters Thursday.
|
Cyprus protests Turkish violation of air space.
| 27 | 6 | 3,800,427 |
The extreme right ideology and racist acts in Europe are on the rise, especially in central and Eastern Europe, said an annual report of the center of anti racist research, information and documentation out today.
|
Extreme right ideology racism on rise in Europe:.
| 34 | 7 | 3,800,428 |
Industry and Commerce Minister Nathan Shamuyarira today encouraged small and indigenous companies in Zimbabwe to get ISO 2005 certification and improve their competitiveness.
|
Quality standard urged in Zimbabwe.
| 22 | 4 | 3,800,429 |
Mozambique and Swaziland signed here today an agreement of Extradition in a bid to combat Transnational crimes more effectively.
|
Mozambique Swaziland sign Extradition pact.
| 18 | 4 | 3,800,430 |
The European Commission Lrb EC Rrb has proposed to the Council of ministers an agreement between the European Union and New Zealand on Sanitary measures affecting trade in live animals and animal products in the two regions.
|
Ec proposes trade agreement between Eu New Zealand.
| 36 | 7 | 3,800,431 |
Mozambique and Swaziland today signed an Extradition treaty to enhance cooperation against cross border crime.
|
Mozambique signs Extradition treaty with.
| 14 | 4 | 3,800,432 |
Belarussian Prime Minister Mikhail and visiting Chinese vice Premier Li Lanqing today expressed readiness to further bilateral ties and expand cooperation in the economic field.
|
Chinese vice Premier visits Belarus.
| 24 | 4 | 3,800,433 |
The semi Finals of the Hong Kong badminton open tournament here Saturday will again witness clashes between world powers Indonesia and Denmark.
|
Indonesians Danes dominate HK badminton open.
| 21 | 5 | 3,800,434 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng said here today that Sino Brazilian relations have entered the stage of mature development and China wishes to advance the long term, stable and mutually beneficial and cooperative relations between the two countries to a new height.
|
Results of Chinese men's basketball professional League.
| 40 | 6 | 3,800,435 |
Three people were killed when a Russian made missile blasted at an arms disposal plant in the Eastern German town of Steinbach, police sources said today.
|
Missile disposal kills in Eastern Germany.
| 25 | 5 | 3,800,436 |
Premier Li and president Cardoso shared the view that all countries in the world have their own conditions and the people of all countries have the right to choose their own road of development.
|
Chinese Premier holds talks with Brazilian President.
| 33 | 6 | 3,800,437 |
Sun Jun scored a game high 61 points to lead home team Jilin rally from behind for a 772 107 win over Hubei at the second round of the Chinese men's basketball professional League here on Friday.
|
Jilin Rallys to beat Hunan at Chinese pro League.
| 36 | 8 | 3,800,438 |
Italian Striker Gianfranco Zola signed with chelsea on Friday, joining his Gianluca Vialli in the English Premier League club.
|
Zola transfers to chelsea.
| 18 | 3 | 3,800,439 |
The inflation rate in Mozambique is expected to be reduced to about 38 percent this year as against last year's 20.2 percent.
|
Mozambique's inflation to drop to 38 percent this.
| 21 | 7 | 3,800,440 |
President Daniel Arap Moi today announced that his government will introduce agents early next year to destroy the water Hyacinth in Lake Victoria.
|
Kenya to wipe out water Hyacinth in L. Victoria.
| 22 | 8 | 3,800,441 |
Chinese Premier Li Peng and Brazilian National Congress President Jose Sarney met at the Parliament building here this morning.
|
Chinese Premier meets Brazilian Parliament leader.
| 18 | 5 | 3,800,442 |
The results of the repeated vote for the Yugoslav Parliament's lower house on November 10 and 90 will have no effect on the final results of the November 2 elections, the Yugoslav election Commission said today.
|
2nd round elections to have no effect on final results.
| 35 | 9 | 3,800,443 |
More than 2 million children were killed in armed conflicts over the past decade, while over 6 million others were maimed, said a report of the u.n. children's Fund Lrb Unicef Rrb today, which called for action to protect children from war.
|
2 million children killed in war over last decade.
| 41 | 8 | 3,800,444 |
The United States Navy said today it could not have shot down a TWA airliner that crashed over the Atlantic off New York in July as it had no weapons in the area.
|
US Navy denies shooting down of airliner.
| 32 | 6 | 3,800,445 |
A battalion of Nigerian peace keepers have arrived in Monrovia on Thursday to replace another battalion of their compatriots which has completed its mission in Liberia, the news agency of Nigeria reported today.
|
New Nigerian peace keepers arrive in Monrovia.
| 32 | 6 | 3,800,446 |
The sub Saharan African Lrb Ssa Rrb countries owe between 589 billion and 284 billion United States dollars to Lrb Organization for Economic Cooperation and development Rrb creditors.
|
States owe 589 BLN dlrs to creditors.
| 27 | 6 | 3,800,447 |
A Weizman Institute of science Groundwater sampling system tracks down microscopic particles that act as vehicles for the spread of Groundwater Pollutants, according to the latest issue of environmental science and technology.
|
Israeli Groundwater Sampler helps assess.
| 31 | 4 | 3,800,448 |
The chief of the International committee of the Red Cross Lrb Icrc Rrb today called on the u.n. Security Council to take urgent action to stop the tragedy in Eastern Zaire.
|
Red Cross chief calls for UN action in Zaire.
| 30 | 8 | 3,800,449 |
The Athens stock exchange Lrb Ase Rrb suspended trading today for the first time in its history following a decision of the Union of stock exchange members Lrb Rrb to abstain.
|
Athens stock exchange suspends trading.
| 30 | 4 | 3,800,450 |
U.n. Secretary General Boutros Boutros Ghali urged here today the international community to act immediately "to assist refugees in Eastern Zaire because the refugees there are confronted with a genocide of starvation.
|
UN chief urges immediate action in Eastern Zaire.
| 31 | 7 | 3,800,451 |
The chief of the International labor organization Lrb Ilo Rrb today urged government, labor and business leaders to link economic progress to job creation and poverty reduction to avoid jeopardizing worldwide economic growth.
|
Ilo chief warns of globalization backlash.
| 32 | 5 | 3,800,452 |
Britain's shops are enjoying a widespread increase in business, with all retailing sectors reporting improved sales for the first time since January 2001, the Confederation of British industry Lrb CBI Rrb said.
|
Inflation feared as sales grow at year high in UK.
| 31 | 9 | 3,800,453 |
Governor of the South African Reserve Bank, Chris Stals, today reiterated the bank's resolve to abolish exchange controls on a step by step basis a turnaround of the earlier big bang approach ".
|
S. Africa to adopt gradual abolition of exchange.
| 32 | 7 | 3,800,454 |
South Africa is ready to join regional peacekeeping effort in war torn Eastern Zaire as President Nelson Mandela is contacting Western and regional leaders.
|
S. Africa ready to join regional action on.
| 23 | 7 | 3,800,455 |
Tanzania will send a high powered delegation to attend the world tourism show to be opened in London next Monday, the Tanzania tourist board announced here today.
|
Tanzania to attend world tourism show in London.
| 26 | 7 | 3,800,456 |
A u.n. report released here today called for actions to protect children from armed conflicts which have killed around 2 million children in the past decade.
|
UN calls for protecting children from conflict.
| 25 | 6 | 3,800,457 |
The Bank of Canada cut its key bank rate by another quarter of a percentage point to 1.23 percent today.
|
Bank of Canada cuts key rate again.
| 19 | 6 | 3,800,458 |
United States President bill Clinton Friday named North Carolina businessman Erskine Bowles to replace Leon Panetta as his chief of staff.
|
Bowles named chief of White House staff.
| 20 | 6 | 3,800,459 |
A strong earthquake measuring 9.0 on the Richter scale rocked the South yellow sea at 31:88 Lrb Beijing time Rrb today, according to China's state seismological Bureau.
|
Earthquake rocks South yellow sea.
| 26 | 4 | 3,800,460 |
Russia successfully test fired an intercontinental ballistic missile today, the Itar Tass news agency reported.
|
Russia test fires intercontinental ballistic missile.
| 14 | 5 | 3,800,461 |
Pakistan's interim government today announced measures to bail out the fragile economy, provide relief to the poor and prevent successive governments to introduce slippage ".
|
Pak interim Gov t announces major economic reforms.
| 24 | 7 | 3,800,462 |
Pakistani caretaker Minister for industries and production Sadiq Nawaz Awan today stressed the need for closer cooperation between the government and business community.
|
Cooperation between Pak Gov t business community stressed.
| 22 | 7 | 3,800,463 |
Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko said today that the improving relations are of strategic importance to his country.
|
Belarussian President meets Chinese vice Premier.
| 16 | 5 | 3,800,464 |
Pakistan's caretaker interior Ministry has set up a reporting center for receipt of complaints and information against people who are involved in massive corruption, the official associated press of Pakistan reported here today.
|
Anti corruption center set up in Pakistan.
| 32 | 6 | 3,800,465 |
The United Nations today delayed the launching of a military intervention in Zaire as thousands of Rwandan refugees are reportedly dying of hunger, thirst, disease and exhaustion.
|
U.n. delays while refugees face death in Zaire.
| 26 | 7 | 3,800,466 |
China has set up a new system of foreign exchange which with the Socialist market economy and is in accordance with international conventions, according to a senior exchange official.
|
New system of foreign exchange primarily set up in China.
| 28 | 9 | 3,800,467 |
The world food program Lrb Wfp Rrb will start airlifting high protein biscuits from Uganda to refugees in Eastern Zaire, a Wfp news release available here said.
|
Wfp Airlifts food to refugees in Zaire.
| 26 | 6 | 3,800,468 |
The Afghan Taliban militia and the joint forces of anti Taliban alliance exchanged heavy artillery fire today in the North of Kabul, said a report reaching here.
|
Heavy fighting takes place in North of Kabul.
| 26 | 7 | 3,800,469 |
An Iranian drug Smuggler who had swallowed 604 grams of heroin packed in 98 bags was arrested by anti narcotics agents, a press report said here today.
|
Drug Smuggler swallows 604 grams of heroin.
| 26 | 6 | 3,800,470 |
The 45th Asian Judo championships started Saturday in Ho Chi Minh city, the largest city of Vietnam.
|
Asian Judo championships starts in Vietnam.
| 16 | 5 | 3,800,471 |
Egyptian foreign minister AMR Moussa said today that Egypt would not Marginalize Israel as a special case at the forthcoming Cairo economic conference, which highlights regional cooperation in parallel with the Middle East peace process.
|
Egypt promises Israel equal treatment at Cairo.
| 34 | 6 | 3,800,472 |
Italian cyclists urged to use blood tests against banned substances in the sport, newspapers reported on Saturday.
|
Italian cyclists urges blood testing against Doping.
| 16 | 6 | 3,800,473 |
Divorce is on the rise in the Chinese capital of Beijing, with ten out of every 3,824 couples splitting up nearly three percent more than five years ago.
|
Survey finds divorce rate on rise in Beijing.
| 27 | 7 | 3,800,474 |
An exhibition of letters, papers, photos and political documents that belonged to Dr. sun Yat Sen, China's Democratic revolutionary Pioneer, was held today in Guangzhou, the capital of South China's Guangdong province.
|
Objects and documents show revolutionary life of sun Yat Sen.
| 31 | 9 | 3,800,475 |
Ethiopia's health Ministry today said it has launched a program aimed at controlling the spread of tuberculosis Lrb TB Rrb which reportedly has infected 14,608 people over the past 21 years.
|
Ethiopia launches TB controlling program.
| 30 | 4 | 3,800,476 |
Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who was transferred Friday to Moscow's central clinical hospital, is undergoing a normal recovery from the Quintuple heart bypass operation, the Kremlin press Service said today.
|
Transferred to new hospital.
| 29 | 3 | 3,800,477 |
A group of Greek Cypriots today continued their anti occupation protest near the Ledra Palace Checkpoint in Nicosia for the fourth weekend.
|
Greek Cypriots continue protest near Ledra Palace.
| 21 | 6 | 3,800,478 |
Italy today signed a 935 million dollar steel contract with Iran despite United States sanction against the Islamic Republic, local media reported today.
|
Iran Italy sign 935 million dollar steel contract.
| 22 | 7 | 3,800,479 |
South Korea win the title at the second Asian under 32 men's basketball championship here on Saturday, beating hosts China 27 24 in the final.
|
Results of tour of China Cycling race.
| 24 | 6 | 3,800,480 |
Zhuhai city, one of China's five special economic zones in Guangdong province, has become the world's largest air conditioner production base.
|
Zhuhai becomes world's largest air conditioner production base.
| 20 | 7 | 3,800,481 |
Rwandan children, among the 9.3 million refugees in Eastern Zaire, are dying of hunger, thirst, disease and malnutrition, Agence France Presse Lrb AFP Rrb quotes witnesses who visited the refugees as saying.
|
Rwandan children refugees face death in Eastern Zaire.
| 31 | 7 | 3,800,482 |
The Chinese Navy has been using Hi Tech virtual reality systems to help improve combat capabilities and simulate actual battle conditions.
|
Chinese Navy introduces more high technology to simulate battle environment.
| 20 | 9 | 3,800,483 |
The gold price in Hong Kong today rose five HK dollars to close at 1,418 HK dollars a tael, according to Po sang Bank, one of the major gold dealers in Hong Kong.
|
Gold price in Hong Kong up.
| 32 | 5 | 3,800,484 |
Macao is to step up promotion of the basic law of Macao in the coming three years left over before the Handover of power in 2020, a top executive for the Macao basic law promotion Association Lrb Rrb said.
|
Macao to step up promotion of basic law.
| 38 | 7 | 3,800,485 |
The expansion of the parking apron of the Macao International Airport and the construction of a ground maintenance center started today, exactly one year after the airport's Inauguration.
|
Macao launches airport expansion project.
| 27 | 4 | 3,800,486 |
A five member Pakistani delegation of the Association of retired ambassadors will pay a week long visit to China from Sunday.
|
Pakistani retired ambassadors to visit China.
| 20 | 5 | 3,800,487 |
Prices for consumer goods and services in Mongolia soared in the first 21 months of the year, up 56.4 percent over that at the end of 2022, according to the Mongolian news agency today.
|
Consumer prices up in Mongolia.
| 33 | 4 | 3,800,488 |
Two jets of the anti Taliban alliance today bombed the Kabul International Airport, said a report reaching here.
|
Anti Taliban jets bomb Kabul airports twice.
| 17 | 6 | 3,800,489 |
Secretary General of the Association of Southeast Asian nations Lrb asean Rrb Dato Ajit Singh today stressed that asean would not interfere in Myanmar's internal affairs.
|
Asean Secretary General stresses non interference.
| 25 | 5 | 3,800,490 |
The world's leading experts in reproductive health will gather here on November 98 53 to review progress in promotion of women's health.
|
World meeting on women's health to open in Manila.
| 21 | 8 | 3,800,491 |
Four Filipino fishermen were rescued after their boats were battered by strong waves off the Mindoro Island in the central Philippines, a Coast Guard official said here today.
|
Filipinos rescued after three hours in rough sea.
| 27 | 7 | 3,800,492 |
Vietnam's foreign trade volume reached 44.84 billion United States dollars in the first ten months of this year, up 60.5 percent over the same period of last year.
|
Vietnam's foreign trade increases.
| 27 | 3 | 3,800,493 |
Japan's Matsushita Electric industrial Co. will increase its production and sales in Latin America by 2013, said an industrial newspaper here here today.
|
Matsushita to increase business in Latin America.
| 22 | 6 | 3,800,494 |
Japan's Matsushita Electric industrial Co. will increase its production and sales in Latin America by 2002, said an industrial newspaper here here today.
|
Matsushita to increase business in Latin America.
| 22 | 6 | 3,800,495 |
Kuwaiti and French troops today started joint military exercises which will last for five days on land and in the Gulf waters off Kuwait.
|
Kuwait France start joint military exercises.
| 23 | 5 | 3,800,496 |
U.n. Security Council early this morning adopted a resolution urging member States to make arrangement for resumption of humanitarian aid to more than one million displaced persons and refugees in Eastern Zaire.
|
U.n. Council adopts resolution to end Zaire crisis.
| 31 | 7 | 3,800,497 |
The eighth International science and peace week opened here today.
|
International science peace week opens.
| 9 | 4 | 3,800,498 |
The eighth International science and peace week opened here today.
|
International science peace week opens.
| 9 | 4 | 3,800,499 |
Spraying chemicals to wipe out water Hyacinth on Lake Victoria has been put on hold, and the environment impact assessment Lrb EIA Rrb on the spraying is almost complete, the Parliament Committee on natural resources learned.
|
Chemicals spraying on L. Victoria on hold.
| 35 | 6 | 3,800,500 |
Armenian President Levon in a decree Friday approved a streamlined new cabinet led by Prime Minister Armen Sarkissian, according to reports reaching here today.
|
Armenia forms new cabinet.
| 23 | 3 | 3,800,501 |
China's agricultural output value, which saw steady increases during the first nine months of this year, has brought more income to farmers and made rural market more prosperous.
|
Rural economy prospering in China.
| 27 | 4 | 3,800,502 |
The u.n. Security Council Saturday adopted a resolution, urging member States to get ready for a multinational force for Zaire to help deliver humanitarian aid to refugees.
|
Security Council calls for readying of forces for Zaire.
| 26 | 8 | 3,800,503 |
Egypt, host of the third Middle East and North Africa economic conference, plans to submit a total of 684 projects at a total cost of 48.9 billion Egyptian pounds to the conference, which is due to open Tuesday.
|
Egypt to present 684 projects in Cairo conference.
| 37 | 7 | 3,800,504 |
With the fast growth of municipal construction and economic development, the special meterological consultancy services have been playing a more important role in China's leading industrial city of Shanghai.
|
Weather consultancy services welcomed in Shanghai.
| 28 | 5 | 3,800,505 |
The Regent undervalued assets Africa fund is expected to be launched next month in Nairobi, according to a daily nation report.
|
Foreign investment fund to be launched in Kenya.
| 20 | 7 | 3,800,506 |
With the fast growth of municipal construction and economic development, the special meterological consultancy services have been playing a more important role in China's leading industrial city of Shanghai.
|
Weather consultancy services welcomed in Shanghai.
| 28 | 5 | 3,800,507 |
The system of supervision and management, previously used in capital construction, has been introduced in the resettlement of people at construction sites of large projects for the first time in China.
|
Supervision system introduced in resettlement project.
| 30 | 5 | 3,800,508 |
The system of supervision and management, previously used in capital construction, has been introduced in the resettlement of people at construction sites of large projects for the first time in China.
|
Supervision system introduced in resettlement project.
| 30 | 5 | 3,800,509 |
Kashima Antlers became the champion of Japan's J League professional Soccer tournament for the first time on Saturday.
|
Kashima Antlers becomes J League champion.
| 17 | 5 | 3,800,510 |
Africa loses to developed countries at least 58,554 trained professionals each year, including doctors, engineers and university Lecturers, the East African standard reported today.
|
Brain drain affects development in Africa.
| 23 | 5 | 3,800,511 |
Kenya will share a financial package of 53 million United States dollars with two other developing countries for the development of solar power, according to a daily nation report today.
|
Kenya to get solar power funding.
| 29 | 5 | 3,800,512 |
Zhu Meifang from China's Eastern province of Jiangsu took the women's Epee crown at national champions fencing meet here on Friday.
|
Zhu wins women's Epee at national champions fencing meet.
| 20 | 8 | 3,800,513 |
Liaoning province of northeast China received 337,784 tourists from overseas in the first nine months of this year.
|
Liaoning receives more overseas tourists.
| 17 | 4 | 3,800,514 |
No survivors have been found after a Nigerian Boeing 167 airliner crashed near Lagos Thursday, a Nigerian Aviation Ministry official said today.
|
Nigerian air crash kills 167 on board.
| 21 | 6 | 3,800,515 |
Top seeded Monica Seles of the United States came from behind in the second set to overwhelm her compatriot Kimberly Po in the 862,565 United States dollars Bank of the West classic women's tennis tournament in Oakland on Friday.
|
Seles advances to Oakland tennis semi Finals.
| 38 | 6 | 3,800,516 |
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Northwest China, will be turned into China's oil and petrochemical industrial base as well as Reserve bases for the country's non ferrous, gold and building materials.
|
Xinjiang to accelerate resources prospecting.
| 29 | 4 | 3,800,517 |
Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Northwest China, will be turned into China's oil and petrochemical industrial base as well as Reserve bases for the country's non ferrous, gold and building materials.
|
Xinjiang to accelerate resources prospecting.
| 29 | 4 | 3,800,518 |
The Indian Union Finance Ministry is working on a comprehensive action plan to reduce the level of subsidies provided by the center and state governments, a government official said here today.
|
India's Finance Ministry plans to cut subsidies.
| 30 | 6 | 3,800,519 |
Rescuers spotted the wreckage of a missing Nigerian airliner in swamps east of Lagos Friday and they believed that all 902 persons aboard were dead.
|
All 902 aboard missing Nigerian plane believed dead.
| 24 | 7 | 3,800,520 |
World cup Greco Roman wrestling champion Cuba won its two opening sessions of the world cup wrestling tournament in Colorado Springs on Friday.
|
Cuba edges Russia South Korea in world cup wrestling.
| 22 | 8 | 3,800,521 |
Elderly people in Hangzhou city, capital of East China's Zhejiang province, no longer worry about how to make their ends meet, because local city government has assured them a bottom line of living expenses.
|
Elderly people in difficulty get bottom line living expenses.
| 33 | 8 | 3,800,522 |
More than 1,957 rare animals have been released from Vietnam's major national parks and Zoos since 2022, the Vietnamese news agency Lrb Vna Rrb reported Friday.
|
Vietnam releases eight thousand rare animals.
| 25 | 5 | 3,800,523 |
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