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WASHINGTON:The United States has solid information on top level contactsbetween al-Qaeda and Iraq going back a decade, including possiblechemi- cal weapons training, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeldsaid.
NEAR GALASHKI, Russia: Russian warplanes and artillery blasteda village in Ingushetia where Chechen rebels battled federal troopsin the worst fighting seen in the Russian republic bordering Chechnyafor two years.
THE HAGUE: Slobodan Milosevic insisted he had worked for peacein the Balkans as prosecutors opened their genocide case againsthim in Europe's biggest war crimes trial since World War II.
MIAMI, Florida: Tropical Storm Isidore made landfall on the coastof Louisiana and Mississippi as local residents struggled to savewhat they could.
GAZA CITY: Seven people, including a Palestinian baby, were killedin Palestinian territories as Israel eliminated a top leader ofthe group Hamas.
ABIDJAN:Ivory Coast sent out an SOS for a regional peacekeeping forceto help it fight army mutineers and what Minister Kouassi termed"external aggression".
YANGON:A Myanmar court sentenced the son-in-law and three grandsons offormer dictator Ne Win to death by hanging for conspiring to overthrowthe military government.
AHMEDABAD, India: Thousands of troops and extra police were on alertacross India's volatile western state of Gujarat as the countrybraced for a possible anti-Muslim backlash following a massacreat a Hindu temple.
WASHINGTON: IMF managing director Horst Koehlersaid the world economic outlook had weakened as financial marketsplunged into turmoil but there was no need to dwell in doom.
WASHINGTON: President George W. Bush will send asenior State Department official to North Korea next month toreopen a high-level US dialogue with the Stalinist state suspendedfor nearly two years, the White House said.