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  2. WORLD NEWS Both sides pledge to fight on in Gulf war Iraqi aircraft strike vessel

    BAHRAIN, Thursday (Reuter). — Iraq announced yesterday that its aircraft had attacked a large vessel near Iran's big Kharg Island ...

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  3. FREEDOM AWARDS Former PM among six honoured

    WASHINGTON, Thursday (Reuter). — A former British Prime Minister, Lord Stockton (formerly Mr Harold Macmillan), will be among six people who will receive 1984 Franklin Roosevelt ...

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  4. IN BRIEF Landmine wounds 7 in Namibia

    WINDHOEK, Namibia, Thursday (AP) —Seven people suffered minor wounds when a rigged landmine went off yesterday inside a shop in Oshakati, a military-base community in ...

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  5. Appeal to Queen

    JOHANNESBURG, Thursday (Reuter). —Residents of a black South African village, due to be removed under the apartheid system of racial separation, have asked Britain for help in ...

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  6. 5,000 dead in drought

    MAPUTO, Thursday (Reuter). — More than 5,000 people have died of starvation this year in a region of Mozambique which is stricken by drought, the semi-official daily Noticias reported ...

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  7. Joint manoeuvres

    HONOLULU, Thursday (AP) — Ships from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan and the US had set out to sea yesterday as the nations opened joint ocean manoeuvres, US Navy ...

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  8. Drug syndicates caught

    KUALA LUMPUR, Thursday (AP) —Narcotics officers had smashed three major drug-trafficking syndicates with international connections operating in north-west Malaysia ...

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  9. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Indonesian journalist held for questioning

    PORT MORESBY, Thursday (AAP). — An Indonesian reporter was stopped from leaving Papua New Guinea and had 13 rolls of film taken ...

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  10. Newspaper ban lifted

    LONDON, Thursday (AP). — A union official reported last night that the management of The Observer, Britain's 193-year-old Sunday newspaper, had lifted a threat to close the liberal weekly ...

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  11. CHINA Defence minister to visit US

    PEKING, Thursday (AP). —Chinese Defence Minister Mr Zhang will visit the United States next month, after a visit to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  12. Death sentence request

    ANKARA, Thursday (Reuter). — A Turkish military prosecutor requested yesterday death sentences for five defendants at the opening of a mass trial of 96 alleged Kurdish militants in ...

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  14. Drop in piracy attacks

    SINGAPORE, Thursday (Reuter). — Armed pirates operating around Singapore appeared to have stopped their attacks this year but ships should remain vigilant, shipping sources said ...

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  15. Guerilla robbery

    BOGOTA, Thursday, (Reuter). — In one of Colombia's most daring robberies, five guerillas had held up a bank and escaped with the equivalent of $A1.23 million without firing a ...

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  16. Prince Charles critical

    LONDON, Thursday (PA). — The architect behind the National Gallery extension plan which Prince Charles describes as "a monstrous carbuncle", said today the criticism was ...

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  17. Threat to bandits

    KARACHI, Thursday (Reuter) — Doctors and students at a Pakistani medical college had threatened not to treat injured bandits unless they released three kidnap victims, student ...

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  18. NICARAGUA Rebel leader hurt, five killed in bomb explosion

    SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, Thursday (AP). —Nicaraguan rebel leader Mr Eden Pastora was ...

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  19. Fraser opens home

    POTENZA, Italy, Thursday (AP). — The former Australian Prime Minister, Mir Fraser, officially opened yesterday a home for the aged in Potenza built with funds from the Australian ...

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  20. Kidnap victims freed

    REGGIO CALABRIA, Italy, Thursday (Reuter). — Two men abducted in separate kidnappings, one of whom was held for more than a year, were released early yesterday, police said. ...

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  21. Mystery child disease

    ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast, Thursday (AFP). —A mystery disease had killed at least 50 children in two villages of the northern Ivory Coast in the past month, and medical personnel had been ...

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  23. Solar eclipse darkens skies in US

    NEW YORK, Thursday (AP). — Skies darkened in the southeast yesterday after a damp curtain of clouds broke up and the ...

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