A Hungarian village has adopted a practical approach to an old problem, reports Nick Thorpe. The leading peace negotiator Mr Shlomo Ben-Ami is to become Israel's new Foreign Minister, a day after the Prime Minister, Mr Ehud Barak, announced a purge of ambassadors. In the West machines are used to test the strength of cigarettes. Not so in Yelets, reports Robyn Dixon. Belly dancers can't stomach idea of Iraq's secret agents Britain's belly dancers have reacted angrily to reports that Iraq's President Saddam Hussein has been training female agents in the guise of exotic performers to target the country's dissidents in London, complaining it will undermine their business.
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