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	  *Reuters World News Highlights*    	
	 WASHINGTON - The U.S. government stopped all non-essential 
activities after President Clinton and the Republican Congress 
failed to break a budget deadlock blocking further financing of 
federal operations.  
	 ``Our government shutdown is now underway,'' White House 
spokesman Mike McCurry said shortly after Budget Director Alice 
Rivlin ordered federal departments and agencies to begin 
shutting their doors.  
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	 MOSCOW - Russian President Boris Yeltsin, still in the 
hospital but looking well in his second public appearance since 
suffering a mild heart attack, said he was ``holding and 
controlling the wheel of this large boat which is Russia.''(See 
RUSSIA)  
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	 AL-YAMOUN, West Bank - Jubilant residents showered with 
sweets 11 Palestinian policemen who moved into the West Bank 
village of al-Yamoun in a widening of PLO authority across areas 
evacuated by Israeli troops.(See MIDEAST-POLICE)  
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	 LONDON - The Royal Dutch/Shell oil company said it wanted a 
$4 billion Nigerian gas project to go ahead despite last week's 
execution of nine minority rights campaigners (See NIGERIA)  
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	 GENEVA - The U.N. refugee agency said it expected to spend 
two years and up to $500 million overseeing the return home of 
some three million people displaced by war in former Yugoslavia.  
	 But a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees 
said it was clear many of those forced from their homes by 
ethnic cleansing would never go back, especially to areas 
controlled by Bosnian Serbs. (See YUGOSLAVIA-REFUGEES)  
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	 BUCHAREST - Tens of thousands of Romanians packed central 
Bucharest to mourn opposition leader and former political 
prisoner Corneliu Coposu, whose fight against communism broke 
his health but never won him power (See ROMANIA-FUNERAL)  
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	 GENEVA - Swiss authorities launched a top-level probe into 
the killing of Egyptian diplomat Ahmed Alaa Nazmi. Prosecutors 
were treating it as a possible assassination (See SWISS-DIPLOMAT 
1STLD)  
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	 WINCHESTER, England - Housewife Rosemary West was her 
husband's partner in hideous sexual murders and must be 
convicted, prosecutor Brian Leveson said summing up the case 
against her.  
	 ``In the last weeks we have travelled to a place which 
plumbs the depths of human depravity and been forced to consider 
what human beings can do to each other,'' he said (SEE 
BRITAIN-WEST 1STLD)  
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	 FRANKFURT - Germany approved former Barings bank trader Nick 
Leeson's extradition to Singapore and one official said he 
expected the handover to take place next week (See 
GERMANY-LEESON)  
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	 CAYENNE, French Guiana - Police cleared a way past 
protesting fishermen to escort a shipload of rocket parts into 
port at the Ariane launch base.(See EUROPE-FRANCE-SPACE)  

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