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- Raphael Lakpe, publisher of the daily Le Populaire, was released on Wednesday evening after three days in custody and will appear in court on Thursday morning. | [
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- Cabinet meeting appoints Colonel Severin Konan Kouame as gendarmerie commander, replacing General Joseph Tanny, who has been appointed secretary-general of the National Security Council. | [
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-- Abidjan newsroom +225 21 90 90 | [
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NATO releases Serb police, crisis easing - NATO. | [
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NATO forces released a group of Bosnian Serb policemen late on Thursday and a tense confrontation appeared to be easing, an alliance spokesman said. | [
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" The situation in Mahala seems to be very much on its way toward resolution. | [
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My understanding is the (Serb) police have been released ... | [
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In Zvornik, we think the situation is winding down as well, " NATO spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Max Marriner told Reuters. | [
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NATO troops detained 65 Bosnian Serb policemen early on Thursday after they attacked Moslem refugees returning to homes in Mahala, a Serb-controlled village on Bosnia's internal boundary line. | [
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In apparent retaliation for NATO's detention of the Serbs, an angry Serb mob including policemen trapped six unarmed U.N. police monitors and three local aides in their office in the town of Zvornik, east of Mahala. | [
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Marriner said NATO forces confiscated 25 long-barreled AK-47 automatic assault rifles from the detained Serbs before setting them free. | [
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" Local radio and television there (in Zvornik) are advising people to step back and take it easy. | [
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We think that when the word about how things are going in Mahala which is about 35 minutes away by road reaches Zvornik that should help, " Marriner said. | [
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Storm kills 11 at Macedonian religious festival. | [
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At least 11 people were killed and 60 others injured on Thursday when lightning struck a group of people attending a religious festival in Macedonia, police and municipal officials said. | [
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Police in Berovo, 150 km (90 miles) west of the capital Skopje, said there were around 15,000 people gathered around the town's cathedral when the lightning struck the group during a thunderstorm. | [
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Kornblum, Milosevic discuss election crisis. | [
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U.S. envoy John Kornblum met Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday in an effort to defuse a growing crisis surrounding Bosnia's post-war elections. | [
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The American diplomat arrived in Belgrade two days after international organisers postponed municipal elections in Bosnia due to irregularities in the registration of Serb refugee voters. | [
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" We discussed the decision to postpone the municipal elections and I made clear it was primarily the manipulation of voter registration by the Republika Srpska (Bosnian Serb republic) which led to this development, " Kornblum said after three hours of talks. | [
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But he said the United States still believed it was important to go ahead with national elections in Bosnia as scheduled on September 14 to bolster the peace process. | [
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Kornblum gave no indication that he had won any specific commitment from Milosevic, the patron of the Bosnian Serbs, to rectify any abuses in the registration process. | [
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Bosnia's Moslem political parties have urged their refugees to boycott the elections until irregularities with voter registration are resolved. | [
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Human rights workers say Serbian and Bosnian Serb authorities coerced refugees to register only in Serb-held territory in Bosnia to solidify the results of wartime expulsions and military conquest. | [
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Serbian officials have denied any abuses occurred during a 10-day registration period and the Bosnian Serbs, angry at the postponement of municipal elections, have threatened to hold local polls on their territory without the international community's blessing. | [
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Kornblum said only elections endorsed by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) would be legitimate. | [
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" As we have said publicly before, if there is any effort to do so (hold local elections) these elections will not be valid, " he said . " | [] |
The elections which are valid are those conducted by the international community under the management of the OSCE . " | [
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After meeting Milosevic, Kornblum flew to the Croatian capital Zagreb. | [
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He was due to head to the Bosnian town of Banja Luka on Friday to meet Bosnian Serb acting president Biljana Plavsic and Bosnian Serb opposition leaders. | [
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He also planned to travel to Sarajevo to oversee the formal dissolution of the separatist Croat mini-state in western Bosnia. | [
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U.N. police, relief workers and NATO officers have reported a rise in political violence across Bosnia in the run-up to the September 14 elections. | [
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Voters will be choosing a three-member presidency and a parliament to rule over a loose union of Bosnia, comprised of a Serb republic and a Moslem-Croat federation. | [
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Gazprom rises to 2,901.48 rbls at auction. | [
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MOSCOW 1996-08-29 | [
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A stake of 10 million shares in Russian gas monopoly RAO Gazprom was sold at auction on Thursday at an average 2,901.48 roubles a share, up from 2,891.00 roubles a week ago, the Federal Securities Corporation (FFK) said. | [
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Starting price at the auction was 2,746 roubles a share and the 40 lots sold for between 2,840 and 2,998 roubles a share, the FFK said in a statement. | [
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The stake represented 0.042 percent of Gazprom's capital. | [
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The FFK said that since auctions began, 139.75 million shares, equivalent to 0.59 percent of Gazprom, have changed hands. | [
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Gazprom, Russia's biggest company by market capitalisation, has massive reserves and potentially huge earnings. | [
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However, its 23.6 billion shares are highly illiquid and management permission is required to sell them. | [] |
Gazprom has recently tightened these rules, making it harder for shareholders to sell to whoever they want, when they want. | [
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The company has organised regular auctions of its shares to create an orderly market in the paper. | [] |
At the first auction on March 6, shares sold for an average 406.6 roubles each, and prices have been rising steadily since then, but the rise in price this week and last was much less than in previous auctions. | [] |
On the Russian Trading System, Gazprom shares rose 25 percent on Thursday to $0.375 from $0.300, after falling by over a third earlier this week. | [
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-- Artyom Danielyan, Moscow Newsroom, +7095 941 8520 | [
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Serbian policeman shot dead in Kosovo province. | [
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BELGRADE 1996-08-29 | [
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A policeman has been shot dead in Serbia's troubled Kosovo province, Serbian police said on Thursday. | [
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It was the fifth attack on police this month in the southern province, a hot spot of ethnic tension where the Albanian majority have boycotted Serbian institutions and set up their own, which are considered illegal by Belgrade. | [
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The slain policeman Ejup Bajgora, 42, was an Albanian who had served in the Serbian police and state security since 1987, police told the Yugoslav news agency Tanjug. | [
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He was shot on Wednesday afternoon as he stepped off a bus near his family home in the village of Donje Ljupce in the municipality of Podujevo. | [
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Just hours before Wednesday's shooting, three hand grenades were thrown at a police station in Celopek. | [
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They caused damage but no casualties, police said. | [] |
The Serbian authorities blame Albanian dissidents for the recent spate of attacks. | [
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None of the attackers has been caught. | [] |
Kosovo's autonomy was revoked in 1987 and Serb police forces cracked down on Albanian protests. | [
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Albanian moderates want autonomy restored but hardliners want to join up with neighbouring Albania. | [
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The Serbs, who make up 10 percent of the province's 1.8 million people, claim Kosovo as the cradle of their culture. | [
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Viral meningitis epidemic kills 10 in Romania. | [
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BUCHAREST 1996-08-29 | [
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Viral meningitis has killed 10 people in Romania's capital Bucharest this month in what doctors said on Thursday was the worst epidemic of its type in the country for a decade. | [
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Some 170 middle-aged and elderly people with the disease were being treated in hospital, doctors said. | [] |
Doctor Emanuil Ceausu, head of Bucharest's Victor Babes hospital for infectious diseases, said the epidemic had been caused by a virus yet to be identified. | [
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Illness from viral meningitis lasts around a week. | [] |
It affects the gastro-intestinal tract, causing high fever, headache and vomiting. | [] |
In 1986 Romania suffered an epidemic of the more dangerous bacterial meningitis which has killed some 15,000 people in central Africa this year. | [
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Serbia's Zastava workers protest enters 9th day. | [
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Workers at Serbia's Zastava arms factory entered the ninth day of their protest over unpaid wages on Thursday with management accused them of rejecting talks. | [
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" The workers keep on gathering in the centre of the town, " the factory's general manager Vukasin Filipovic told Reuters . " | [
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But they do not want to talk to anyone . " | [] |
" They want to discuss in public, at their protest meetings, " Filipovic said . " | [
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And that is impossible . " | [] |
The Zastava works in the central town of Kragujevac is the backbone of Serbia's defence industry, supplying the army with a whole range of weapons. | [
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Its workers are staging protests in the town's main square demanding June and July wages and last year's holiday pay. | [] |
On Wednesday, the union demanded the resignation of the factory manager. | [] |
But Filipovic said he would not quit under pressure . " | [
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We can talk about it and I am prepared to take all the consequences of mismanagement if any . " | [] |
Venezuela FinMin to make statement midday Thursday. | [
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Venezuelan Finance Minister Luis Raul Matos Azocar will make an " important announcement " on Thursday at 1230 local / 1630 GMT at a Central Bank press conference, the Finance Ministry said. | [
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The press conference replaces Matos's scheduled appearance at an IMF-hosted seminar Thursday on Venezuela's economic reform program, Venezuelan Agenda. | [
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-- Caracas newsroom, 582 834405 | [
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Colombia police find marijuana on ship. | [
{
"content": "Colombia",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
BOGOTA, Colombia 1996-08-29 | [
{
"content": "BOGOTA",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Colombia",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 8
}
] |
Police said they found 35 metric tons of marijuana on Thursday on a ship preparing to set sail for the Netherlands from Colombia's Caribbean port of Cartagena. | [
{
"content": "Netherlands",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 103
},
{
"content": "Colombia",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 120
},
{
"content": "Caribbean",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 131
},
{
"content": "Cartagena",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 149
... |
They said the drug had been packed into a shipping container and was surrounded by ground coffee. | [] |
No arrests had been made, a police spokesman said. | [] |
Venezuela non-oil exports rise 10.6 pct in July. | [
{
"content": "Venezuela",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
CARACAS 1996-08-29 | [
{
"content": "CARACAS",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
}
] |
Venezuela's non-traditional exports, which exclude oil and iron, rose 10.6 percent in July to reach $334 million compared to $302 million in June, according to the Central Office of Statistics and Information (OCEI). | [
{
"content": "Venezuela",
"label": "LOC",
"start_index": 0
},
{
"content": "Central Office of Statistics and Information",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 164
},
{
"content": "OCEI",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 210
}
] |
" The rise was due to the end of exchange controls, " OCEI said. | [
{
"content": "OCEI",
"label": "ORG",
"start_index": 54
}
] |
Foreign exchange controls were removed April 22 as part of a wider IMF-sponsored program. | [
{
"content": "IMF-sponsored",
"label": "MISC",
"start_index": 67
}
] |
Nevertheless, exports over the first seven months of the year were 16.8 percent lower than during the same period last year, at $2.240 billion compared to $2.693 billion. | [] |
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