Today's Headlines
- Iraqi opposition leader rules out a Baghdad-Tehran-Damascus alliance
Iraq's government will never persuade Syria and Iran enter an alliance that could help Baghdad ease its year of international isolation, an Iraqi opposition leader says. Iraq-Syria, Politics, 7/1/1997
- Algerian forces kill 20 rebels after ambush
Security Algerian forces killed 20 Islamist guerrillas after the rebels ambushed a convoy carrying medicines in western Algeria, an Algerian newspaper reported on June 29. Algeria, Local, 7/1/1997
- Gadhafi tried 1992 cash for missile bid in Argentina
Libyan president Moammer Gadhafi offered 4 million US dollars towards Argentine president Carlos Menem's 1989 campaign in exchange for ballistic missiles, a former minister said. Libya, Politics, 7/1/1997
- Netanyahu attacks anti-Muslim posters in Hebron
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu phoned the mayor of Hebron on June 29 to condemn the distribution there of posters depicting the prophet Mohammed as a pig stomping on the Koran. Israel, Local, 7/1/1997
- Love affair murder
Discovering her misconduct and various illicit love affairs, a newly-wed worker killed his wife three months after their marriage. He dragged her to a remote area and strangled her with a scarf before throwing her body into a sanitary drainage well. Egypt, Local, 7/1/1997
- PLO seek Israeli help to control fire
PLO police sought Israeli help to extinguish a fire which engulfed two Palestinian factories in an industrial area of self-ruled Ramallah yesterday, witnesses said. Palestine, Local, 7/1/1997
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