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WHAT HAPPENED ON 9th January 2001?
8th January 2001
CHINA More than 20 coal miners are reported to have been trapped in a flooded pit in the Guanxi Zhuang southern region since Friday. INDIA At least 12 people were killed and six others seriously injured when a gas tanker exploded into flames after hitting a truck in a village near the northern city of Kanpur reports say.9th January 2001
TIANANMEN PAPERS ARE FAKES SAYS CHINA
China says papers revealing secret government talks on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are fabricated. The papers published in the US claim to reveal talks between China's leaders prior to the order to stop the protests A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the documents were not authentic. "Any attempt to...disrupt China by the despicable means of fabricating materials & distorting facts will be futile " he added.
9th January 2001
CHINA The BBC's global TV channel BBC World has for the first time been granted a licence to broadcast in the country. The deal will also allow BBC World to be shown in many hotels. INDIA Millions of pilgrims are heading for the northern city of Allahabad for the most important festival in the Hindu calendar. The Kumbh Mela takes place once every 12 years. PAKISTAN At least eight people died & up to 70 were injured when a passenger train derailed near the southern town of Hyderabad.8th January 2001
"It was a big mistake"Joschka Fischer
Germany's foreign minister apologising for beating up policemen in his rebellious youth. "Presentationally Bill Clinton is a US President to die for. The truth is far too many have"TV news reader Jon Snow. "Wherever I go says Margaret Drabble people are talking about the recently- published third volume of Robert Skidelsky's Life of Maynard Keynes. Here is proof that Margaret Drabble & I inhabit very different worlds" Veteran commentator Richard Ingrams.
9th January 2001
TIANANMEN PAPERS ARE FAKES SAYS CHINA
China says papers revealing secret government talks on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are fabricated. The papers published in the US claim to reveal talks between China's leaders prior to the order to stop the protests A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the documents were not authentic. "Any attempt to...disrupt China by the despicable means of fabricating materials & distorting facts will be futile " he added.
9th January 2001
TIANANMEN PAPERS ARE FAKES SAYS CHINA
China says papers revealing secret government talks on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are fabricated. The papers published in the US claim to reveal talks between China's leaders prior to the order to stop the protests A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the documents were not authentic. "Any attempt to...disrupt China by the despicable means of fabricating materials & distorting facts will be futile " he added.
8th January 2001
TROOPS OFFERED VOLUNTARY URANIUM TESTS
The Government is to launch a voluntary screening programme for Kosovo War veterans in the wake of the scare over depleted uranium (DU) used in weapons. In a statement to the Commons Armed Forces Minister John Spellar said that there was no evidence to suggest DU caused cancer or ill health in troops. And he said DU would be used in British weapons for the "foreseeable future". But he said he recognised the need to "reassure" people about their fears.
9th January 2001
TIANANMEN PAPERS ARE FAKES SAYS CHINA
China says papers revealing secret government talks on the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown are fabricated. The papers published in the US claim to reveal talks between China's leaders prior to the order to stop the protests A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman said the documents were not authentic. "Any attempt to...disrupt China by the despicable means of fabricating materials & distorting facts will be futile " he added.
9th January 2001
EXTRADITION PLEA FOR WAR CRIME SUSPECT
The Lithuanian government is to seek the extradition of 85-year-old war crimes suspect Anton Gecas. Mr Gecas who lives in Edinburgh is suspected of having committed war crimes as head of a special Nazi police battalion during World War Two. The decision has been welcomed by campaigners for Holocaust victims. Dr Efraim Zuroff director of the Wiesenthal Centre in Jerusalem said it had been seeking the extradition of Anton Gecas for 14 years.
