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...uneasy stalemate settled in. Chernomyrdin moved to break the deadlock by calling rebel leader Basayev directly by telephone at the hospital to discuss conditions for the release of the hostages, including a cease-fire in the Chechen war. Yeltsin meanwhile had gone to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where the summit of the seven leading economic powers was being held. After meeting with Yeltsin, the seven condemned violence on both sides of the Chechen conflict...
...summit of G-7 leaders in Nova Scotia, the U.S. squabbled with France and Britain over funding the Rapid Reaction Force that those two countries and the Netherlands are deploying this week in Bosnia. An embarrassed President Clinton admitted to his counterparts that while he believes the U.S. "should pay a share" of the deployment costs, the Republican Congress would prevent the White House from paying the amount required by the U.N. assessment schedule...
...blue van blocking the road, and somebody jumped on the ground and a machine-gun started, and I realized there were bullets coming at our car."Egyptian President Hosni Mubarakdescribed the moment when seven gunmen opened fire on his motorcade this morning as he arrived in Ethiopa for a summit of African heads of state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. At a news conference hours later, the President said he suspected the fundamentalist Islamic regime in neighboring Sudan, which had been accused of supporting Egyptian radicals who want to replace Mubarak's secular...
...centers on rightist opposition to Britain's economic intergration with Europe. Redwood, a standard-bearer for the Euro-skeptics, read his blunt resignation letter to Major in public: "There is no shortage of people wanting to stand or to support someone other than you." Major, at a European Economic summit in Cannes, fired back: "I am certainly intrigued about it, since he has sat in the Cabinet following our policies for so long...
...blue van blocking the road, and somebody jumped on the ground and a machine-gun started, and I realized there were bullets coming at our car." Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak described the moment when gunmen opened fire on his motorcade this morning as he arrived in Ethiopa for a summit of African heads of state. The 67-year-old Mubarak, who was unharmed, immediately returned to Cairo. The murder attempt in Addis Ababa had been carefully choreographed: two vehicles pulled into the motorcade; seven gunmen (five inside the vehicles and two atop a nearby building) fired, hitting Mubarak's black...