Word: monday
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Good thing Russia doesn't have chain restaurants spread all over the world, because the Chechens appear to have some very angry friends. Four rocket-propelled grenades slammed into the Russian embassy in downtown Beirut, Monday, killing two policemen and recalling that city's heyday as the mayhem capital of the Middle East. The attacks followed weeks of protest by local Islamic militants against Russia's military campaign in Chechnya, which the U.S. warned Sunday could become an albatross around the neck of acting President Vladimir Putin if he's unable to find an exit strategy...
Mideast real estate negotiations are never easy, but three wars over occupancy have put the Golan Heights in a league of its own. Israeli and Syrian negotiators on Monday began ten days of intense peace talks in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, with U.S. officials playing down expectations for any kind of breakthroughs and warning that further rounds might be necessary. To be sure, the principle framework for an agreement between Israel and its most intractable foe has been on the table for quite some time: Israel returns the Golan Heights to Syrian control, in exchange for peace, normalizing of relations...
...airport security and with the fact that India released convicted anti-Indian terrorists after negotiations with the hijackers of Indian Airlines Flight IC 814. Then other U.N.-member nations joined in, angered by the precedent India set by caving. So Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee on Monday tried to lay the blame on arch-nemesis Pakistan, saying the Pakistani government trained the hijackers and is now harboring them. But like every move India's made since the hijacking, the accusations backfired, and now both the domestic press and foreign media are decrying Vajpayee's accusations as unfounded...