February 2001 World Headlines

Wednesday, February 7, 2001 - Web posted at 10:27:55 AM GMT

World News Summary

* LUSAKA - Dozens of Zambian youths opposed to a campaign to keep President Frederick Chiluba in office beyond his legal 10-year term marched in the capital urging him to respect the law.

* OUAGADOUGOU - The government of Burkina Faso has appealed for foreign aid to help 1,1 million people affected by food shortages caused by irregular rains.

* KAMPALA - The World Health Organisation said that an epidemic of Ebola fever in Uganda, which has killed 173 people, is now effectively over.

* BERLIN - German parliamentary investigators probing allegations of corruption under former Chancellor Helmut Kohl said they would question a key figure in France's Elf scandal before he is extradited to Paris.

* DUBAI - Saudi Arabia has blamed foreign countries for bomb attacks in the kingdom, saying they were linked to three Westerners who face a possible death sentence after being shown on television confessing to two of the blasts.

* MELROSE PARK, USA - A man about to go to prison for stealing engine parts from the factory where he had worked for nearly 40 years forced his way into the plant near Chicago on Monday and opened fire, killing four people before taking his own life.

* HAVANA - Two prominent Czechs, jailed in Cuba after seeing anti-Castro dissidents, were on their way home after a public confession earned their release in a case further souring ties between the one-time Socialist allies.

* QUEMOY, Taiwan - The first Chinese ship to make a legal, direct voyage to a Taiwan-held island in more than five decades docked at heavily fortified Quemoy as part of rapprochement efforts.

* QUITO, Ecuador - At least two people were killed and dozens injured when Ecuadorean security forces clashed with Indian demonstrators protesting high gasoline and transport costs, security and Red Cross officials said.

* MEXICO CITY - President Vicente Fox proposed rewriting Mexico's 1917 constitution to make the president impeachable and reflect a new democracy.

* TEHRAN - Ten Iranian Jews convicted of spying for Israel have appealed to Iran's supreme leader for a pardon, the semi-official Iran Daily reported.

- Nampa-Reuters

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