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Morning News


Aug.22   China   Million people battling lake
  Families living nearby China's second largest freshwater lake have begun to flee their homes.


  Nepal   Tourist plane crash kills 18  Among those on board the Shangrila Air plane were 13 Germans, one Briton and one U.S. citizen and 3 crewmembers

  Southern Philippines   Army turns up heat on Abu Sayyaf  The army is responding to the execution of two people by militants with heavy shelling of their jungle camps on Jolo

  Northern Ireland Death threat footballer quits  Neil Lennon, 31, a Catholic, says he is quitting international matches after a threat to have been made by the paramilitaries

  Texas Bush says 'all options' on table for Iraq  President: United States is in no hurry but ending Saddam's regime 'in the interest of the world'

  Southern California Guilty of Danielle van Dam's murder  A jury found Westerfield guilty of kidnapping and killing 7-year-old girl, whose nude body was dumped near a road

Day News


  Afghanistan   Minister attacks aid abuse  The Planning Minister, Mohamed Mohaqeq, has launched a blistering attack on the way in which international aid is organised

  Colombia Rebels reject UN mediation  FARC has rejected a government proposal for United Nations' mediation to end the civil war

  Washington Bush eases US logging restrictions  US President has announced plans to revise the policy on logging in forests following the disastrous fires

Evening News


  China   600,000 begun evacuating  Dongting Lake in Hunan province is threatening to overflow and engulf surrounding cities and farmland

  Germany 'Hitler's filmmaker' turns 100  Prosecutors are investigating a statement Leni Riefenstahl made on Gypsy film extras who perished in death camps

  Pakistan Pakistan changes 'barrier to democracy'  President Musharraf wants to develop democracy, but constitutional amendments could make that harder to accomplish
San Francisco Bay Area , August 22, 2002 Timeline