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	  *Reuters World News Highlights*    	
	 ISLAMABAD - A suicide bomber blasted his way into the 
Egyptian embassy in Islamabad and set off a powerful explosion 
that killed at least 14 people and wounded about 60, including 
diplomats, Pakistani officials said. (see PAKISTAN-BLAST)  
	 CAIRO - Three militant Islamic groups in Egypt claimed 
responsibility for the embassy bombing. (see 
PAKISTAN-BLAST-EGYPT)  
	 WASHINGTON - President Clinton condemned the embassy attack 
and offered to help bring the perpetrators to justice, the White 
House said. (see PAKISTAN-BLAST-USA)  
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	 DAYTON, Ohio - Bosnia peace talks can ``go either way'' and 
the United States is prepared to call off the negotiations if 
agreement is not reached by the end of the day, State Department 
spokesman Nicholas Burns said. He told a news briefing that an 
event had been scheduled for Monday at 10 a.m. that could either 
be a ceremony to initial a peace agreement or to announce that 
19 days of intensive effort had ended in failure. (see 
YUGOSLAVIA-SUMMIT 2NDLD)  
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	 WASHINGTON - House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted that the 
six-day-old government shutdown would continue until President 
Clinton committed himself to balancing the budget. (see 
BUDGET-GINGRICH 1STLD)  
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	 WARSAW - An early exit poll showed the former Solidarity 
leader, President Lech Walesa, and his younger ex-communist 
challenger Aleksander Kwasniewski running desperately close in 
the presidential election.  
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	 JERUSALEM - Israel cracked down on Jewish extremists as an 
inquiry heard the first secret testimony of security chiefs 
whose bungling allowed a right-wing Jew to kill Prime Minister 
Yitzhak Rabin. (see MIDEAST-ISRAEL 1STLD)  
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	 COLOMBO - At least 160 Tamil Tiger rebels and soldiers were 
killed in fierce fighting in Sri Lanka's north and east as the 
army beat off stiff resistance to tighten its grip on the 
guerrillas' northern Jaffna base. (see SRILANKA)  
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	 MOSCOW - Rebel forces in Russia's breakaway Chechnya region 
said the decision by local pro-Moscow authorities to hold 
elections next month could ignite civil war and urged people not 
to vote. (see CHECHNYA)  
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	 VIENNA - OPEC ministers converged on Vienna for talks at 
which they are expected to freeze existing output quotas for up 
to a year to try to defend oil prices.  
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	 BELFAST - Gerry Adams, head of the IRA's political arm Sinn 
Fein, said Britain must name a date for unconditional 
round-table talks to shore up Northern Ireland's bruised peace 
process. (see IRISH)  
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	 TBILISI - Georgia voted in the second round of a 
parliamentary election which state leader Eduard Shevardnadze 
hopes will tighten his grip on power.  
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	 OSLO - Norwegian central bank governor Torstein Moland, 
caving in to mounting pressure to resign, said he was quitting 
over a tax scandal that has haunted him for several years.  
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	 DAR ES SALAAM - A rerun of presidential and parliamentary 
elections in Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam ended in 
widespread confusion and apathy.  
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	 NTARAMA, Rwanda - Former president Jimmy Carter began a 
peace mission to Rwanda by going to Sunday church -- not to pray 
but to view the scene of thousands of bleached-white skulls and 
scattered bones. (see AFRICA-CARTER)  

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