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	 LONDON - The international community swiftly stepped up the 
isolation of Nigeria's military rulers as the European Union 
withdrew all its diplomatic representatives.  
	 QUEENSTOWN, New Zealand - Commonwealth leaders, fresh from a 
landmark decision to suspend Nigeria for human rights abuses, 
met to give Nigerian military rulers a deadline to reform or 
face expulsion from the group.  
	 LAGOS - Angry Nigerian opposition groups urged the 
international community to take punitive action against the 
military government for executing nine human rights activists.  
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	 JERUSALEM - Israelis flocked to mourn slain Prime Minister 
Yitzhak Rabin, a week after he was assassinated, amidst news 
that police arrested two more suspects in connection with the 
murder.  
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	 DAYTON, Ohio - Officials at the Dayton peace summit waited 
anxiously for Balkan leaders to send instructions home to avert 
a feared outbreak of fighting that would sink the peace process 
in the volatile region.  
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	 COLOMBO - Two Tamil Tiger suicide bombers blew themselves up 
in central Colombo, killing at least 15 people, and Sri Lanka's 
military reported heavy rebel casualties in its offensive in the 
northern part of the island.  
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	 KATHMANDU - A huge avalanche struck the overnight camp of a 
Japanese trekking group in the Mount Everest region of Nepal, 
killing 26 people, including 13 Japanese, as they slept, rescue 
and hiking officials said.  
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	 WASHINGTON - President Bill Clinton was at loggerheads with 
his Republican opponents over a debt crisis which this week may 
shut down parts of the U.S. government and put the nation in 
default for the first time.  
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	 MOSCOW - Russian President Boris Yeltsin believes a 
parliamentary election should go ahead as planned in December 
but with solid legal backing, Vladimir Shumeiko, head of the 
Federation Council upper chamber, said.  
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	 BAKU - President Haydar Aliyev looks set to tighten his grip 
on the volatile Transcaucasian state of Azerbaijan in a 
parliamentary election on Sunday that his party is practically 
guaranteed to win.  
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	 MORELIA, Mexico - Mexico's main leftist political party, a 
thorn in the government's side for most of the last decade, 
fights for its life in key elections in its home state of 
Michoacan.  

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