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...Qaeda members who had hours earlier escaped from prison, said Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah. He said that the men - 12 Pakistanis and one Kyrgyz national - had been caught late last year, but they had apparently sawn through bars on a prison window and fled the capital Kabul. The firefight took place at an isolated police post at Binizar about 15 km southeast of Kabul. Two government soldiers and one civilian also died in the fighting...
...were under fire. The enemy: a unit of the United Wa State Army, a tribal force from Burma. Allied with the government in Rangoon and notorious for its dominance of the narcotics trade, the tribal army frequently sends its drug caravans slithering through Thai territory. When the four-hour firefight was over, the Wa had retreated, but not before leaving one Thai soldier dead. Queen Sirikit was advised to remain in her palace near Chiang...
...translates into freedom for his people - and peace for Israel - depends on a complex and perilous diplomatic dance between the U.S., the Saudis, the Israelis and the Palestinian leadership, a dance made all the more delicate after a fire broke out near the Church of the Nativity during a firefight between Israeli troops and Palestinians inside. Six men wanted by Israel left Arafat's Ramallah compound Wednesday in the custody of U.S. and British officials who will oversee their confinement at a Palestinian Authority prison in Jericho. On Thursday, in keeping with the plan accepted by both sides under strong...
KILLED. JONAS SAVIMBI, 67, leader of UNITA, the Angolan rebel group that for 27 years fought the government in a civil war that killed some 500,000; in a firefight with the Angolan army; in Moxico. A U.S. ally in the cold war fight against Marxism in Africa, Savimbi later isolated himself from Western powers promoting democracy there when he kept up the war after losing a 1992 democratic presidential election...
...wider political context in the southern Philippines may pose problems. The MNLF, of course, is today the ruling party in Basilian, and five other regions that have joined the Autonomous Region of Muslim Mindanao since the peace agreement of 1996. This week's firefight between police and soldiers appears related to a faction fight between rival factions of the MNLF - the imprisoned Misauri had launched his rebellion only after being voted out of office by his own party, and his support-base remains limited...