HOT SPOTS AROUND THE WORLD:
August 23, 1998
CNN -
Myanmar military bars
doctors from ailing Suu Kyi
YANGON, Myanmar (AP)
-- Myanmar's military
government has barred
doctors from visiting
opposition leader Aung San
Suu Kyi, who is suffering
from kidney problems, her
political party said Sunday.
Suu Kyi has entered the 12th day of her nonviolent protest
on a rural road against the military restricting her from
traveling outside Yangon. She and three colleagues are
camped inside a van 32 km (19 miles) west of the capital.
The authorities are refusing to let her proceed to the city
of Bassein, where she intended to meet members of her
political party.
20 August, 1998:
Afghanistan, Sudan
U.S. strikes 'terrorist' targets in Afghanistan, Sudan
U.S. armed forces attacked "terrorist-related
facilities" in Afghanistan and Sudan on Thursday
in retaliation for the recent bombings of two
U.S. embassies in east Africa, President Clinton
and Pentagon officials announced.
WASHINGTON - U.S. military forces Thursday attacked terrorist
facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan
that President Clinton said were
linked to the embassy bombings in
Africa. The attacks were carried
out at 1:30 p.m. EDT, and were
completed less than an hour later,
the Pentagon said. Clinton and defense officials said the facilities were a
terrorist base in Afghanistan and a chemical weapons facility in Sudan
linked to Osama bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire whom U.S. officials call
a major sponsor of terrorism. Clinton addressed the nation Thursday
afternoon, saying ''Our target was terror. Our mission was clear.'' The
president said he acted to ''counter an immediate threat.''
HARBIN, China (CNN) -- Floods swamped part of China's largest oil
field Thursday, forcing 100,000 people to flee nearby villages and cutting a
railway line needed for bringing in relief supplies.
BELFAST, Northern Ireland (AP) --
The shattered town of Omagh was
burying the final eight civilians slain by
a terrorist car bomb as medical staff
dealt Thursday with more than 300
survivors bearing physical and mental scars.
Famine may have killed 2
million in North Korea
August 19, 1998
Web posted at: 12:57 p.m. EDT (1657 GMT)
BEIJING (CNN) -- Two million
North Koreans -- nearly 10 percent
of the population -- may have died
during three years of famine in North
Korea, U.S. congressional aides said
Wednesday.
PYONGYANG, North Korea
(CNN) -- The famine in North
Korea has affected the entire
country, with most people
getting only one-fifth the food
they need, according to a CNN
correspondent who was allowed to
make a rare trip to that
secretive Communist nation.
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Panthou, South Sudan : displaced children are at
extreme risk
Panthou Displaced children in the famine-stricken area of
Panthou in the province of Bahr-el-Ghazal, southern Sudan,
are at extreme risk of dying, a new M�decins Sans
Fronti�res (MSF) nutritional and mortality survey reports.
According to the assessment, displaced children
in Panthou are almost 17 times more likely to die of
starvation or starvation-related illnesses than resident
children from the area, despite the fact that the levels of
malnutrition within the two groups are similar.
The mortality and nutritional survey reports a death
rate of 43.8 deaths per 10,000 people per day for
displaced children under the age of five compared to 2.6
deaths per 10,000 people per day for resident children
under the age of five. The overall level of malnutrition
among children under the age of five in Panthou is 53.4
per cent.
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Bangladesh doctors say floods a disaster
The Bangladeshi government has been urged to declare the
country's worst floods in a decade as a national disaster.
Donor agencies also want the government to make a formal global
appeal for emergency aid shipments of food, medicine and
house building materials.
More than 350 people have died, and 30 million have been affected
after five weeks of flooding.
Viet Nam: Drought - Aug 1998
Nepal: Floods - Aug 1998
Turkey: Floods - Aug 1998
Ecuador: Earthquake - Aug 1998
Rep. of Korea: Floods - Aug 1998
Papua New Guinea: Tsunami - Jul 1998
Bangladesh: Floods - Jul 1998
Azerbaijan: Earthquake - Jul 1998
Indonesia: Volcanic Eruption - Jul 1998
Kyrgyzstan/Uzbekistan: Dam Burst - Jul 1998
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