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Friday

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Morning News


Aug.24   France     French Concorde makes test flight
  Concorde took off from Paris and flew out over the Atlantic to verify technical systems


  Beijing     Arafat peace overture in Beijing  Palestinian President is ready to begin talks with Israel to end bloodshed. Arafat meetis Li Peng

  Macedonia     NATO and rebels agree on arms  3,000 weapons will be put to the Macedonia government. Interior Ministry estimated rebels had 85,000 weapons

  Spain 6 ETA suspects seized  Police seized a large quantity of explosives when making the arrests near Barcelona

  Colombia Powerful bomb explodes in Medellin  A blast in an upper-class residential neighborhood injured 10 people and partially damaged 100 homes

  Portugal 9 hurt in emergency landing  The Air Transat Airbus 330 flying from Toronto to Lisbon made an emergency landing in Azores Islands

  UN Tribunal Milosevic reprimanded for TV call  Milosevic managed to phone the Fox News network while in detention in The International War Crimes Tribunal

Evening News


  New Delhi     Indian police charge bin Laden  Terrorist leader has been charged with planning to bomb the U.S. Embassy, based on the confessions of 2 men

  Israel Israel defends action in Hebron  Army has no intention of reoccupying Palestinian-controlled towns

  England Australia in control at The Oval  Waugh hits a courageous 27th test century

  Colombia Colombia arrest 4th Irish man  48-years-old was arrested at a roadblock outside the rebel-controlled zone

  Washington Military officer on spying charge  Brian Regan, 38, retired Air Force sergeant, was carrying coded messages and a list of names hidden in his shoe

  England New foot-and-mouth case  The infection was discovered in northeastern England
San Francisco Bay Area , August 24, 2001 Timeline