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A heavily armed 14-year-old boy shot and killed his school principal inside a crowded junior high cafeteria Thursday morning, then killed himself, authorities said. The shootings happened about 15 minutes before the start of classes at the Red Lion Area J
World | April 24, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded train station in central Israel, killing a security guard who tried to prevent him from entering the station. The bomb wounded 13 bystanders during the busy morning rush hour in the town of Kfar Sa
World | April 24, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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China has sealed off a major hospital in the capital, Beijing, in its latest move to fight the deadly Sars virus. It came a day after the World Health Organization (WHO) added Beijing and China's Shanxi province to its list of places travellers should avo
World | April 24, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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North Korea says the responsibility is on the United States to change its "hostile policy" as the two countries begin a second day of talks aimed at defusing a nuclear crisis. A report in the official Korean Central News Agency says the US-led war on Iraq
World | April 24, 2003, Thursday // 00:00
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Delegations from the United States, North Korea and China have completed their first day of discussions on North Korea's nuclear ambitions. There was no information on the progress of the meeting.
World | April 23, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The death toll from storms, which have ravaged Bangladesh, rose to more than 240, as further bad weather hit the capital Dhaka damaging several aircraft. The toll included at least 129 people who died when a ferry sank in a storm late Monday on the Buriga
World | April 23, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat allowed prime minister-designate Mahmud Abbas to name Mohammed Dahlan as internal security chief in his new cabinet, breaking their standstill, presidential secretary Tayeb Abdelrahim said. "Dahlan will be state minister f
World | April 23, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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Serbia yesterday lifted its 42-day state of emergency, declared after the assassination of the former prime minister Zoran Djindjic last month. Zoran Zivkovic, Mr Djindjic's successor, said the government would press on with its crackdown on organised cri
World | April 23, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00
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The authorities in the breakaway Turkish north of Cyprus have announced that they will open access to the Greek Cypriot part of the island after nearly 30 years of enforced separation. Turkish Cypriots will be able to go over the border, which is expected
World | April 22, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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The virus thought to cause Sars is constantly changing form, say scientists - which will make developing a vaccine difficult. The Beijing Genomics Institute reported that the virus is "expected to mutate very fast and very easily".
World | April 22, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Secondary schools in Hong Kong reopened after a three-week closure because of the Sars outbreak. About 200,000 children from around 400 schools went back to class, although 10 schools refused to open.
World | April 22, 2003, Tuesday // 00:00
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Belgium has announced another mass cull of chickens and other poultry in an effort to combat bird flu, a highly contagious disease that has apparently spread from the Netherlands. The Belgian authorities have already destroyed a quarter of a million birds
World | April 21, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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Public transit commuters around Toronto may have been exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome and should check themselves for symptoms, Toronto public health officials said Sunday. The Ministry of Health issued an advisory Sunday saying an infected p
World | April 21, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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World | April 21, 2003, Monday // 00:00
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State media reported that Health Minister Zhang Wenkang and Beijing mayor Meng Xuenong were removed from senior positions in the Communist Party, a formal step which will almost certainly see them fired from their government posts. In a statement Sunday t
World | April 20, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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Pope John Paul II began Easter Sunday Mass with a call to the faithful to work tirelessly for peace, as tens of thousands of people jammed rain-soaked St. Peter's Square for the service.
World | April 20, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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Five Palestinians and one Israeli soldier are reported to have been killed as Israeli troops backed by tanks and helicopter gunships have raided a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip in one of their biggest operations of recent months. The raid comes as argume
World | April 20, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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China has cancelled its week-long May Day holiday, as the health ministry announced a sharp increase in the incidence of the flu-like Sars virus. China's official death toll is now 79, with 1,807 confirmed cases of the illness, the health ministry has ann
World | April 20, 2003, Sunday // 00:00
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Turnout is reported high in Nigeria's landmark presidential election, the first such poll organized by a civilian government in 20 years. Thousands of police officers are guarding voting precincts to prevent fraud and violence.
World | April 19, 2003, Saturday // 00:00
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A judge in the United States has ordered the deportation of an elderly Ukrainian-born man accused of being a guard at a Nazi concentration camp during World WarII.Theodor Szehinskyj, 79, is accused of serving in a Waffen-SS Death's Head unit during the wa
World | April 19, 2003, Saturday // 00:00
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Talks over North Korea's nuclear programme appear to be back on track after confusion about a statement apparently saying Pyongyang had started reprocessing thousands of spent fuel rods. The United States has said an English-language statement from North
World | April 19, 2003, Saturday // 00:00
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