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Peru places kidnapping site under military control LIMA (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 The Peruvian military on Tuesday was ordered to take control of the area where dozens of workers from an Argentine firm were taken hostage on Monday, officials said. Israeli army implicitly admits attack on Rantissi JERUSALEM (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 The Israeli army implicitly admitted targeting Hamas leader Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi Tuesday in a helicopter strike which wounded the wanted man and killed three other Palestinians. Indonesian troops suffer worst single death toll in Aceh clash BANDA ACEH, Indonesia (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 Indonesian troops and separatist rebels in Aceh have fought their fiercest battle since the armed forces launched a campaign last month to crush the Free Aceh Movement (GAM), the military said Tuesday. |
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US army launches patriotic magazine to rally under-fire troops in Iraq BAGHDAD (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 The US army has launched a glossy patriotic magazine to rally its 3rd Infantry Division, whose troops face hostile action in the badlands of western Iraq a full two months after Saddam Hussein's ouster. US troops find Blowpipe missiles near base in eastern Afghanistan BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 US Special Operations Forces found three Blowpipe surface-to-air missiles near a coalition base in eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said Tuesday. Four CIS members refuse Russia help on Chechnya missiles: report ASTANA (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 Divisions reemerged Tuesday among the 12-member Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) when four members turned down a Russian plan to control sales of Soviet-made ground-to-air missiles used by separatists in Chechnya. India test-fires surface-to-air missile NEW DELHI (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 India Tuesday sucessfully test-fired its medium range surface-to-air Akash (Sky) missile from the Chandipur testing range off its eastern coast, the Press Trust of India (PTI) news agency said, quoting defence officials. Russian CW disposal plan "complicated" by US funding delays: official MOSCOW (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 Russia warned Tuesday that a US failure to make regular payments to help dismantle the country's huge chemical weapons arsenal was complicating its efforts to meet its international obligations to disarm. Three Iraqis killed in arms dump blast in southern city BAGHDAD (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 Three Iraqis were killed when munitions exploded at a depot in the southern city of Diwaniyah, US Central Command said Tuesday, highlighting the dangers of the sea of ordnance which washed over Iraq after the collapse of Saddam Hussein's armed forces. |
Bush says US will be proved right over Iraq WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 US President George W. Bush promised that "history and time will prove" that Iraq had unconventional arms programs and denied that US credibility is at stake in the search for such weapons. US Navy medical team arrives to treat blast victims in Vietnam HANOI (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 A team of 16 US Navy physicians and medics have arrived in Vietnam to operate on victims of blast injuries caused by Vietnam War-era landmines and unexploded ordnance, the US embassy said Tuesday. Mai-Mai leader claims S.Africa secretly sending arms to DRCongo KINSHASA (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 A leader of the pro-government Mai-Mai militia in the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) central Maniema province late Monday accused South Africa of secretly sending arms in to the province. US military colonel jailed for 4.5 years in S. Korean bribery case LOS ANGELES (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 A US army colonel was Monday sentenced to four and a half years in jail for after he admitted soliciting more than 750,000 dollars in bribes from two South Korean firms seeking US military contracts. Rumsfeld denies intelligence on Iraq's weapons ignored LISBON (AFP) Jun 10, 2003 US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said Monday any suggestion that US leaders ignored intelligence reporting on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was "false on its face." Vietnam veteran can sue Agent Orange makers WASHINGTON (AFP) Jun 09, 2003 A former US serviceman who has cancer can sue the makers of Agent Orange, the defoliant sprayed by US forces during the Vietnam War, after the US Supreme Court deadlocked on an appeal Monday. |
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