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WHAT HAPPENED ON 22nd January 2001?
21st January 2001
ESTRADA UNDER OFFICIAL INVESTIGATION
Filipino prosecutors have launched an investigation into former president Joseph Estrada for allegedly plundering millions of dollars while in office. The announcement came as Mr Estrada's replacement Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo puts together her cabinet & tries to ease divisions in the country. Months of turmoil ended this weekend when Mr Estrada was forced to quit. Thousands took to the streets of Manila to demand a change in government.
22nd January 2001
PUTIN PULLS TROOPS FROM REBEL CHECHNYA
President Vladimir Putin has decided to withdraw some Russian forces from the rebel region of Chechnya. Reports said Mr Putin also ordered the head of the FSB domestic security service a successor to the KGB to take over command of the operation. It is understood that around 22 000 troops were being withdrawn. The exact number of Russian troops in Chechnya in unknown but analysts
22nd January 2001
What People were saying on
"I love being an actor. If I can make a living off fakery & hamness I'll be as happy as Larry."
"If I were president of some boring state where nothing happened & there was no possibility of changing anything I wouldn't be happy."
"Life can't be much fun for the wife of any top sportsman who becomes as ambitious dedicated & blinkered as I was. I started to put golf ahead of my family."
21st January 2001
USPavel Borodin a high-ranking
Russian official at the centre of a Kremlin corruption scandal has been detained after arriving at John F. Kennedy airport in New York. RUSSIA The launch of a rocket to help steer ageing space station Mir back to Earth has been postponed until Sunday. Problems with Mir's navigation system will currently make docking impossible.
22nd January 2001
PUTIN PULLS TROOPS FROM REBEL CHECHNYA
President Vladimir Putin has decided to withdraw some Russian forces from the rebel region of Chechnya. Reports said Mr Putin also ordered the head of the FSB domestic security service a successor to the KGB to take over command of the operation. It is understood that around 22 000 troops were being withdrawn. The exact number of Russian troops in Chechnya in unknown but analysts
22nd January 2001
FRENCHWOMAN HEADS FOR FINAL FRONTIER
A French woman astronaut is in training in Moscow for a mission on a Russian spacecraft which will take her up to the new International Space Station. Claudie Andre-Deshays will join the ten-day flight in October aboard a new module which will serve as an emergency escape craft for the new space station. She has already been up to the Russian Mir space station in August 1996. "I dreamed of becoming an astronaut as a child when I watched the first man landing on the Moon on TV " she said.
21st January 2001
AFRICAN LEADERS DISCUSS CONGO CIVIL WAR
An emergency summit is being held in the Angolan capital Luanda to discuss the impact of last week's assassination of Congolese President Laurent Kabila. The presidents of Angola Zimbabwe & Namibia ` key allies of Kabila ` are taking part in the talks. They provided him with weaponry & thousands of troops for his war against rebels backed by Rwanda & Uganda. The stance of Congo's new President Kabila's son Joseph remains unclear.
22nd January 2001
PUTIN PULLS TROOPS FROM REBEL CHECHNYA
President Vladimir Putin has decided to withdraw some Russian forces from the rebel region of Chechnya. Reports said Mr Putin also ordered the head of the FSB domestic security service a successor to the KGB to take over command of the operation. It is understood that around 22 000 troops were being withdrawn. The exact number of Russian troops in Chechnya in unknown but analysts
22nd January 2001
KABILA BURIED IN HIGH-SECURITY FUNERAL
The funeral of Laurent Kabila the assassinated president of the Democratic Republic of Congo has taken place in the capital Kinshasa. Mr Kabila who was shot dead last week by a bodyguard was buried in a mausoleum at the Palace of the Nation in the country's parliament building. Security was tight with Angolan troops arriving amid fears of more unrest. Leading the mourners was Mr Kabila's son Joseph appointed acting president.
