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...that the Irish Republican Army spied on the British government during the peace process. The raid was the tail end of a major police operation in which documents were seized and arrests were made across Belfast. Two hundred officers staged raids on half a dozen homes, starting just before dawn. Among four people held for questioning was Denis Donaldson, the Sinn Fein official who runs the office at Stormont. The searches were prompted by a theft that occured just a few hundred meters from Sinn Fein's Stormont office, in a dull brick building that houses the last remaining outpost...
...Minister Ariel Sharon said the men with Arafat were "the biggest terrorists that exist." Meanwhile, at least 18 Palestinians (including a 14-month-old girl) and two Israelis died in clashes across the occupied territories. INDIA Blood On The Temple Floor Indian army commandos stormed a Hindu temple at dawn, killing two suspected Islamic militants and bringing to an end a bloody 13-hour siege. The militants had killed 28 worshipers and three security officials in the Akshardham temple complex in Gandhinaghar, capital of Gujarat - the western state where nearly 2,000 people, mostly Muslim, died in sectarian rioting...
...Africa's richest but most politically fragile countries while President Laurent Gbagbo was in Italy. Loyalist soldiers killed the man accused of leading the uprising, General Robert Guei, the former military ruler who was himself ousted in a 1999 coup. Heavy fighting began in the commercial capital Abidjan before dawn on Thursday and spread to two other main towns, which the rebels still held at week's end. At least 80 people were killed, including Interior Minister Emil Boga, and more than 150 were injured. MIDDLE EAST Revenge in hot and cold blood Two suicide bombings marked...
...hectare Chikkenahally plantation, workers start their days at dawn, and by early afternoon the tending of the berry-laden coffee bushes is largely finished. That leaves plenty of time in the indolent hours before nightfall for a bit of recreational gardening or, if you are one of the local landowners, for a drink at the members-only Bamboo Club in the nearby town of Pollybetta. There are few other options for filling the time. "The children are away studying or working in the cities," says George Ramapuram, the fourth of seven brothers who own the Chikkenahally plantation, "so the only...
...predictions, apocalyptic talk and doom-and-gloom scenarios are not enough to inspire people to change either their politics or their day-to-day behavior. But neither can we afford to downplay the problems we face nor think that sustainable development will happen of its own accord. At the dawn of this new century, we must make a choice. We have the human and material resources needed to achieve sustainable development, not as an abstract concept but as a concrete reality. At Johannesburg the world's peoples must come together: to demonstrate our strong sense of common destiny, to show...