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- Tung Chee-hwa is appointed to become the new leader of Hong Kong after it reverts to Chinese rule in 1997.
- East Timor's Nobel Peace Prize winners, Bishop Carlos Belo and Jose Ramos-Horta, challenge Indonesia to release political prisoners.
- The Israeli Government authorises the construction of 130 houses for Jewish settlers in the heart of Arab East Jerusalem and Palestinian officials call if "extreme provocation".
- NATO ministers condemn the Serbian Government for cancelling local elections while Opposition MPs in Serbia boycott the Parliament and leave the chamber half-empty. Tens of thousands of protesters take to the streets for the 23rd day.
- NATO ministers vote to extend the organisation to include old "Iron Curtain" countries.
- Russian coalminers end their week-long strike after Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin promises they will get all their back pay.
- South African President Nelson Mandela signs the country's new constitution.
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- Uday Hussein is seriously injured in an assassination attempt.
- Algerian Muslim fundamentalists massacre 20 bus passengers.
- Tamil Tiger rebels attack a military base in East Sri Lanka with 60 dead on both sides of the fighting.
- Another ceasefire is agreed between the rebels and the hardline government of Tajikistan.
- British explorer, Sir Ranulph Fines, abandons his solo crossing of Antarctica on foot because of painful kidney stones. He was 25% of the way across the continent.
- China criticises the European Parliament for giving a human rights prize to imprisoned Chinese dissident, Wei Jing-Sheng.
- Israel demands that Palestinian authorities hand over Arab gunmen who killed a female Jewish settler and her son in the West Bank.
- Israeli Foreign Minister, David Levvi, says Israel will have to give up part of the Golan Heights to have peace with Syria.
- A rally in Grozny marks the second anniversary of the invasion of Chechnya by Russian troops.
- A United Nations Children's Fund report condemns the extent of child labour in the world and calls the exploitation of children doing hazardous work for little pay as slavery.
- A Red Cross Hercules aircraft drops emergency supplies to tens of thousands of Rwandan and Burundi refugees west of the town of Bukavi, Zaire.
- Russia's Foreign Minister Yevgeny Primakov announces Russia is to negotiate closer diplomatic relations with NATO. Russia still disapproves of Hungary and Poland becoming a part of NATO.
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- The Antarctic saga of British explorer, Sir Ranulph Fines, ends after 25 days of his 100 day race across the polar ice cap when he is airlifted from the continent.
- A disgruntled employee who entered a Parisian office building, captured 35 hostages and held police at bay for 4 hours, surrenders after releasing his prisoners and firing shots from the windows.
- Germany unveils the design for the new European currency. Ireland agrees on how to punish countries breaking the rules on monetary union and Britain still refuses to accept the currency.
- Former General Motors employees, Jose Lopez, is accused of stealing company secrets when he left to work for Volkswagen.
- Iraqi security forces arrest hundreds in their attempt to find the attackers of Uday Hussein.
- Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic invites the European Security Agency to help end 25 days of mass protests in the streets of Belgrade.
- Tanzanian troops halt the flow of Rwandan Hutus fleeing refugee camps along the border of Tanzania and Rwanda.
- The United States questions Israel's offer of financial incentives to encourage Jewish settlement in Palestinian territories. Hamas calls for renewed attacks on Israel.
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- A ski lift accident in the Swiss resort of Riederalp leaves one dead and 18 injured.
- Protests against Serbian President Slobodan Milosevic continue into their 26th day with 200,000 people packing the streets of Belgrade.
- European Union leaders end their two-day summit in Dublin.
- Iranian spiritual leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameinei, says his country would respond, forcefully, if the United States launches an attack on Iran in retaliation for the 19 American soldiers killed by terrorists in Saudi Arabia.
- The Iraqi National Accord becomes the second group to claim responsibility for the assassination attempt on Uday Hussein.
- Iranian-backed Hezbollah denies responsibility for a Katushya rocket attack on Israel in South Lebanon.
- The United States Federal Bureau of Investigation says an exploding fuel tank was not the cause of a TWA Flight 800 crash off New York last July. The FBI is still investigating the possibility of a bomb or a missile destroying the plane.
- Saudi Arabian military police investigate the murder of Australian nurse Yvonne Gilford at Dahran's King Fahd Military Complex.
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- The loi Carrez, or Carrez law governing property transactions, is enacted in France[1]
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- In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.
- Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers, who shut down services across Israel.
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