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Monica8217;s immunity plea denied
WASHINGTON: A judge on Wednesday rejected a plea by former White House intern Monica Lewinsky for immunity in an obstruction of Justice probe in a sex-and-perjury scandal involving US President Bill Clinton, CBS television reported. The television network said the secret decision had yet to be announced publicly.
Colombia blast
BOGOTA: One person was killed and 10 were injured in an explosion at a paint store in the town of Riohacha near the Venezuelan border, officials said Wednesday. Police commander Julio Cesar Gonzalez said the explosion was a terrorist bomb but declined to elaborate. Other sources said the shop owner was being blackmailed by Left-wing guerrillas.
JOHANNESBURG: The South African government has appointed its first black chief of the Defence force as part of its ongoing attempts to transform the armed forces to represent the demographics of the country. SA Defence Minister Joe Modise yesterday said Lt GeneralSiphiwe Nyanda8217;s appointment would represent the radical transformation of the defence force.
LTTE men killed
COLOMBO: Government forces shot dead at least 11 Tamil tiger guerrillas in fresh fighting in northern and eastern Sri Lanka, a defence ministry spokesman said today. Troops attacked a group from the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam near the rebel-held town of Mankulam yesterday and killed eight. Three more tigers were killed near Kilinochchi.
Afghan talks
ISLAMABAD: The Afghan-Taliban militia and its opponents opened a final session of five-day talks today to decide when and where a 40-member peace commission should meet, conference officials said. The delegations met after a breakthrough accord yesterday, agreeing each side will nominate 20 members to a commission of Islamic scholars or Ulema charged with ending the civil war, sources said.
Cambodia polls
PHNOM PENH: An alliance of Cambodian Opposition parties, including the royalist party of deposedco-prime minister Norodom Ranariddh, said today they will boycott July8217;s elections unless conditions assuring they will be free and fair are in place by May 18.
