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	 WASHINGTON - With time ticking down to a midnight deadline, 
Democratic President Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress 
stood fast against one another in a stalemate due to shut down 
much of the U.S. government. Clinton vetoed a bill to expand 
federal borrowing authority and promised to veto a second key 
bill financing government operations, which was passed by 
Congress and sent on its way to him.  
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	 DUBAI - Saudi Arabia, moving to reassure potential 
investors, swiftly asserted its economy was sound after a bomb 
blasted the heart of the world's biggest oil producer and 
exporter. The explosion that ripped through a military training 
centre run by the United States in the Saudi capital Riyadh on 
Monday showed militant Moslem conservatives had penetrated the 
most security-conscious of all the states in the Gulf region. 
Six people, five of them Americans, died in the explosion.  
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	 JAKARTA - Twenty-three East Timorese entered the Japanese 
embassy compound in the Indonesian capital Jakarta and told 
reporters they wanted political asylum in Japan. Witnesses said 
the East Timorese entered the embassy compound, in Jakarta's 
main business district, across a perimeter fence. One East 
Timorese, speaking through the fence, told reporters he and his 
colleagues wanted political asylum in Japan.  
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	 TEL AVIV - Acting Prime Minister Shimon Peres, vowing to 
press on towards Middle East peace, predicted it would take five 
years for Israel to reach complete accord with its Arab 
neighbors, including Syria and Lebanon. Speaking to his Labour 
party after it endorsed him as party head instead of the slain 
Yitzhak Rabin, Peres said: ``It is the end of 1995 and less than 
five years remain to the end of the century.  
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	 LAGOS - Nigeria's military government shows no sign of 
backing down from its confrontation with world powers in the row 
stoked by the hanging of nine minority activists including 
renowned author Ken Saro-Wiwa. On Monday Nigeria recalled its 
ambassadors from abroad in retaliation for similar action taken 
by more than a dozen countries, including the United States and 
former colonial power Britain.  
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	 DAYTON - U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher returns 
to the Bosnian peace talks for the second time in five days in 
what could be a major push to find the compromises needed for a 
final agreement.  Leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Yugoslavia are 
reportedly still stuck on what the map and constitution of a 
future Bosnian state should look like after 15 days of talks at 
the  Wright Patterson Air Force Base.  
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	 PARIS - France braced for a day of protests by public sector 
unions as the government prepared to unveil structural reforms 
and big spending cuts for France's cradle-to-grave welfare 
system. The unions have called for a ``day of action'' in protest 
at the planned reforms but stopped short of staging a repeat of 
a public sector strike last month which brought public services 
to a virtual halt.  
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	 MOSCOW - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, recovering in 
hospital from a mild heart attack, was due to meet Kazakh 
President Nursultan Nazarbayev -- his first foreign visitor 
since falling ill 19 days ago. Yeltsin, who has resumed a normal 
work schedule and met several ministers and advisers on Monday, 
was also set to receive Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin.  
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	 PANAMA CITY - Students protesting a recent Cabinet pay hike 
and planned talks betweeen Panama and the United States on the 
Panama Canal treaties clashed with riot police but no injuries 
were reported. Police said they arrested one demonstrator.  
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	 ALGIERS - Algeria's presidential election campaign wound up 
late, leaving 15 million voters two days to choose between the 
candidates' appeal for mass turnout, an opposition boycott call 
and death threats from Moslem rebels. At stake in the turnout 
for Thursday's ballot is the credibility and legitimacy of the 
winner, and the powerbase the vote may provide for an elected 
president to try to end four years of bloodshed.  
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	 PORT-AU-PRINCE - President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pleaded 
for order on Monday after violence spread into Haiti's 
countryside and at least three people in the provincial city of 
Gonaives were killed by protesters. Aristide called on 
demonstrators who barricaded the capital in search of illegal 
weapons for the past two days to submit themselves to police 
control.  
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	 WASHINGTON - The U.S. Defence Department on Monday released 
a report on 2,202 Americans still missing from the Vietnam War, 
concluding 1,476 cases required further action and 567 had 
virtually no chance of ever being resolved.  
	 It said 159 cases were being deferred pending the receipt of 
additional information to develop new leads.  

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