Today's Headlines
- UNICEF seeks help for Sudanese children
UNICEF, warning that the future of a generation of Sudanese children was at risk, appealed for 19 million US dollars to complete funding for its food and health programs in the war-ravaged country. Sudan, Politics, 7/4/1997
- Would-be rapist killed
A government employee admitted to stabbing an armed bully to death for storming into his house in Imbaba district this week. Egypt, Local, 7/4/1997
- Hizbullah fires Katyusha rockets at Israeli border
Hizbullah unleashed a barrage of Katyusha rockets and mortar fire against occupying forces in the South on July 5, and Israeli warplanes bombed villages in Iqlim Al-Tuffah and rocketed a Palestinian base in Naameh. Lebanon, Local, 7/4/1997
- Algeria's state of emergency to be lifted
Although that move appears to indicate that the government believes security forces have got fundamentalist rebels on the run following a major offensive in recent weeks, more than 250 people have been killed since the June 5 parliamentary election. Algeria, Politics, 7/4/1997
- Barak headed Abu Jihad assassination
Israeli opposition leader Ehud Barak headed the command center that oversaw the assassination of the PLO's military chief in 1988, the Israeli newspaper Maariv reported on July 4. Israel-Palestine, Politics, 7/4/1997
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