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	  *Reuters World News Highlights*    	
	 LONDON - An enraged international community heaped pressure 
on Nigeria for hanging nine minority rights activists but ruled 
out oil sanctions as an immediate option against its military 
government. Nigeria was unmoved by the barrage of protests. Gen. 
Sani Abacha's spokesman insisted the head of state was still 
committed to restoring Africa's most populous state to democracy 
(See NIGERIA-REACTION 1STLD)  
	 AUCKLAND - The Commonwealth set Nigeria a two-year deadline 
to reform or face expulsion as it gave new teeth to its 
principles on democracy and human rights (See COMMONWEALTH 
1STLD)  
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	 ZAGREB - Serbs abandoned a four-year separatist revolt in 
Croatia, signing an accord to hand over the strategic Eastern 
Slavonia region and lifting the threat of fighting that could 
have wrecked peace hopes in the Balkans.(See 
YUGOSLAVIA-CROATIA-SLAVONIA)  
	 TEL AVIV - Under unprecedented security, at least 100,000 
Israelis returned to the Tel Aviv square where Yitzhak Rabin was 
assassinated to say a final farewell at the end of the 
traditional seven-day Jewish period of mourning.(See RABIN 
1STLD)  
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	 WASHINGTON - The White House and Republican congressional 
leaders blamed each other for the imminent shutdown of the 
federal government and the looming possibility of the first 
U.S.debt default.  
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	 ROME - The Netherlands said it would not put forward 
European Commissioner Hans van den Broek as candidate for the 
post of NATO secretary-general and would go along with whichever 
other candidate the majority chose (See NATO-DUTCH 1STLD)  
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	 DUBLIN -  Britain and Ireland clashed from opposite ends of 
the world over how to rescue an increasingly frayed Northern 
Ireland peace process from diplomatic stalemate and the threat 
of renewed violence.(See IRISH)  
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	 GUATEMALA CITY - Guatemalans voted in presidential and 
legislative elections endorsed for the first time in decades by 
both government and opposition forces.  
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	 BAKU - Azerbaijan held its first parliamentary election 
since it won independence in 1991 and also voted on a 
constitution expected to increase President Haydar Aliyev's 
already sweeping powers.(See AZERBAIJAN)  
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	 COLOMBO - Sri Lankan troops attacking the northern Tamil 
rebel stronghold of Jaffna captured an underground base as 
police conducted a sweep of Colombo after suicide bombings, 
security sources said.(See SRI LANKA)  
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	 ALGIERS - Heavily armed soldiers reinforced barricades on 
main arteries leading into Algiers, as campaigning moved into a 
final 24 hours for the Nov. 16 presidential poll that Muslim 
rebels have vowed to wreck.(See ALGERIA)  
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	 KATHMANDU - A teenage boy given up for dead in an avalanche 
survived a 24-hour ordeal and was pulled from deep snow, safe 
except for frostbite, Nepali rescue officials said (See 
NEPAL-AVALANCHE 1STLD)  
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	 NAIROBI - Eight journalists were briefly held by Ugandan 
soldiers while investigating Ugandan reports of a military 
buildup on the border with Kenya, Kenyan police and government 
officials said (See KENYA-BORDER)  

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