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Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) reaches out to guide U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) before the start of their meeting in Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin on Sunday. Clinton and Putin met earlier in the day, and then were joined by their respective national security and foreign relations teams. — Reuters photo
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) reaches out to guide U.S. President Bill Clinton (R) before the start of their meeting in Catherine's Hall in the Kremlin on Sunday. Clinton and Putin met earlier in the day, and then were joined by their respective national security and foreign relations teams. — Reuters photo

USA, Russia agree on plutonium cut
Differ on ABM treaty
MOSCOW, June 4 — US President Bill Clinton and Russian President Vladimir Putin, at their first formal summit in the Kremlin, today agreed to dispose of 34 tonnes of plutonium that can make thousands of nuclear warheads but failed to resolve differences over the fate of the 1972 anti-ballistic missile (ABM) treaty.

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14 LTTE rebels killed in Jaffna
COLOMBO, June 4 — The Sri Lankan army today claimed to have killed 14 LTTE rebels in close encounters in three different places in the northern Jaffna peninsula.

5 hacked to death in Bihar
NAWADA, (Bihar), June 4 — In the second massacre in a fortnight, five persons, including a woman, belonging to backward Yadava community were hacked to death in sleep by unidentified assailants at a village in Bihar’s Nawada district late last night, a police official said today.

Lightning, storm claim 11 lives
CHANDIGARH, June 4 — A powerful storm accompanied by moderate rain which swept across Punjab, Haryana and Chandigarh yesterday and today, claimed 11 lives in the regions including six children, and threw normal life out of gear with the mercury plummeting to three degrees below normal at a few places in the region.
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Starvation deaths in Sirsa
SIRSA, June 4 — Two of the three children of a Bihari woman aged 3 and 10, who were admitted to the local Civil Hospital died of mal-nutrition.

Coup leader George Speights, right, embraces military negotiator Lt.Col. Filipo Tarakinikini during a break in talks with the Fiji military at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva on Sunday. Coup leader George Speights, right, embraces military negotiator Lt.Col. Filipo Tarakinikini during a break in talks with the Fiji military at the Queen Elizabeth Barracks in Suva on Sunday. — AP/PTI photo

Fiji’s military toughens stance
SUVA, June 4 — Fiji’s martial law administrator tonight toughened his stance towards coup plotters, just hours after rebel leader George Speight claimed that he had reached an agreement with the military on transfer of power from the army to the Great Council of Chiefs.

 

 

 




Chaudhry in ‘good health’
SUVA, June 4 — Fiji coup leader George Speight claimed today that his 31 hostages, including Prime Minister Mahendra Chaudhry, were in good condition but he offered no early hope of release.

 

Badal ‘takes water’ to Rajasthan
ABOHAR, June 4 — Farmers of a dozen villages in this subdivision who get water for irrigation from Lambi (sub-canal) have submitted a memorandum to the Union Agriculture and Irrigation Minister against suspension of water supply on each Monday and Tuesday, allegedly due to diversion of water for irrigating agriculture land in Chak Badal village in Rajasthan. 

 

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