June 6, 1997
CAIRO, June 5: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat met President of Egypt Hosni Mubarak on Wednesday for talks on the stalled Middle East peac...
WASHINGTON, June 5: An US Presidential Commission will propose that Congress enact legislation allowing some researchers to create cloned h...
SEOUL, June 5: Aaon of President Kim Young-Sam was charged with bribery and tax evasion on Thursday in a corruption scandal that has crippl...
ALBANY (NEW YORK), June 5: As a young woman, Irene Dyrcz-Freeman travelled through night's darkness to bring food and supplies to Jewish re...
June 4, 1997
Amanda Coetzer cuts Graf's flight PARIS, June 3: Defending champions Yevgeny Kafelnikov and Steffi Graf crashed out of the French Open.Th...
DERBY, June 3: Shane Warne bagged seven wickets but couldn't stop Derbyshire snatching a thrilling one-wicket win over Australia in their l...
June 3, 1997
CAIRO, June 2: President Hosni Mubarak's two sons are suing a Saudi-owned media company for slander and libel after one of its weeklies wro...
ANKARA, June 2: Turkey's pro-Islamic Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan agreed on Sunday to swap places with his pro-West deputy Tansu Ciller...
FREETOWN, June 2: The army major who escaped from jail to seize power over this impoverished country has named his associates to a military...
June 2, 1997
LONDON, June 1: Fast bowler Devon Malcolm returns after an 18-month absence to the England lineup for the first Ashes Test against Australi...
June 1, 1997
JAKARTA, May 31: One of the world's longest-serving leaders, President Suharto easily kept his 31-year grip on power on Friday when prelimi...
May 30, 1997
NEW YORK, May 29: Singer Robert Zimmerman aka Bob Dylan has been hospitalised with a potentially fatal heart infection that forced the canc...
May 29, 1997
YANGON, May 28: Myanmarese riot police maintained their cordon around the homes of Aung San Suu Kyi and other opposition leaders today to s...
May 28, 1997
PARIS, May 27: Having lost its favorite target in France's legislative elections, the Leftist Opposition contends Prime Minister Alain Jupp...
KINSHASA, CONGO, May 27: The new leaders of Congo on Monday extended a ban on all political party activities to the capital, threatening to...
PARIS, May 27: Fourth-Seeded Goran Ivanisevic became the first major casualty of the French Open when he was upset in four sets by Magnus G...
May 27, 1997
PARIS, May 26: So far, so good. Top-seeded Pete Sampras won his first-round match at the French Open today, taking a step toward winning th...
May 26, 1997
FREETOWN (SIERRA LEONE), May 25: Soldiers staged an attempted coup in this west African country today and their leader said the president h...
May 25, 1997
TOULOUSE (FRANCE) May 24: Socialist leader Lionel Jospin has launched an attack on Premier Alain Juppe's attitude toward women in politics,...
KINSHASA, May 24: Sixdays after cheering the victorious arrival of Laurent Kabila's rebel fighters, protesters marched through Kinshasa's s...
JERUSALEM, May 24: Israel offered a temporary freeze of a controversial housing project on Friday in an attempt to end the crisis with the ...
May 24, 1997
TEHRAN, May 23: Iranians urged to vote or answer to god, cast ballots for a new President on Friday in a showdown between hard-liners and m...
BOSTON, May 23: Thalidomide, the sedative banned worldwide since the 1960s for causing birth defects, has re-emerged as the only effective ...
WASHINGTON May 23: In a sign of new resolve, the Clinton administration is punishing two Chinese companies and a third in Hong Kong suspect...
MOSCOW, May 23: The Presidents of Russia and Belarus prepared on Friday to sign a much-debated union charter between the two former Soviet ...
