Last Week in the World of News

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Rwanda prime minister sentenced

Fonner Rwanda prime minister Jean Kambanda was sentenced to a maximum penalty of life imprisonment for genocide and crimes against humanity.

THURSDAY 0 Club Fair

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Kambanda pleaded guilty in pretrial hearings held in May, and now that he was found guilty, he wishes to appeal the sentence.

Kambanda's reign lasted from April 8, 1994 to July 17, 1994.

During this time over 800,000 members of the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.

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North Korea enforces demand

North Korea has demanded money from the U.S.

The demand is based on the U.S. terminating missile ex- portsfrom North Korea. According to the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, North Korea. has become the biggest missile exporter in the world. Last year an estimated $1 billion was earned from the exports.

The selling of the missiles brings in much needed foreign currency, and if the U.S. is going to block this trade, compensation is needed, according to Pyonyang.

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Tension mounds in Afghanistan

Iran is building up their troops along the Afghanistan border due to tension over the fate of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan.

The build up is a result of reports stating 11 Iranian diplomats were captured by Taleban guards at the Iranian consulate in Mazari-Sharif in northern Afghanistan.

All of the action taken by Iran has been claimed as military exercise. Included in the exercises were 25 attack aircraft, 80 T-72 tanks, two SA-6 mobile missile batteries, 90 pieces of heavy ar- Shahabuddin Ahmed, the tillery and 60 armored vehicles. country's non-partisan presiBoth of the countries have dent, asked the country's politiequal amounts of force and it cians to put aside their differcould prove to be a long and ences. bloody war, if one indeed does break out.

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Bangladesh in crisis

After two months of rain, Bangladesh has witnessed over 700 deaths.

The heavy rain is causing the mountain streams in the Himalayan Mountains to overflow and wash out small towns along their paths.

The U.S. has provided approximately 400,000 tons of foodgrains for the people at a cost of about $65 million. Bangladesh has already lost over $300 million in crops.

Doctors are facing problems with diseases such as hepatitis, jaundice, malaria and scabies to go along with over 150,000 cases of diarrhea contracted from rotten food or polluted water.

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Black box found

After three days of underwater searching, the flight recorder or "black box" from Swissair Flight 111 was retrieved by the Canadian Military and police divers and ships.

The flight crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off of the coast of Nova Scotia and killed all 229 people aboard, according to an air safety official.

It was flying from New York City to Geneva, Switzerland. By retrieving the recorder, Vic Gerden, chief investigator of the Canadian Transportation Safety Board, hopes to find out if there were any system failures while the plane was in flight.