They put forward no proof to support the speculation , but seized on a comment by chief prosecutor Michel Bourlet on Belgian television on Friday night that he would chase down everyone involved in the case " if I am allowed to " .

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Bourlet said between 300 and 400 paedophile porn video tapes had been seized , some of which featured Dutroux .

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Dutroux was charged a week ago after police rescued two young girls from a concrete dungeon in the basement of one of the six houses he owns in and around Charleroi .

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Just a day later the national euphoria at the rescue turned to disgust as Dutroux led police to the bodies of two eight-year-old girls in another of his houses .

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Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo , had been kidnapped in June last year .

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Dutroux said they starved to death nine months later .


He also admitted kidnapping two other girls , An Marchal and Eefje Lambrecks , a year ago .

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The fate of the girls is unknown , but there has been speculation they were sold into prostitution in Slovakia or the Czech Republic where Dutroux was a frequent visitor .

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Belgian police have visited Bratislava and will visit Prague .


Five other people have been arrested including Dutroux 's second wife Michelle Martin , charged as an accomplice .

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The others have been charged with abduction and illegal imprisonment of children or are suspected of criminal association .


Dutch police are also holding a 74-year old Dutchman in connection with the disappearance of An and Eefje , although a spokesman said no direct link had yet been established .

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At least part of the speculation in the Belgian media of high-level protection for Dutroux and his accomplices is based on leaked documents cataloguing a high degree of police bungling , incompetence and indifference .

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Among the revelations are the fact that the gendarmerie was running a surveillance operation codenamed " Othello " against Dutroux in 1995 -- when both Julie and Melissa and An and Eefje were kidnapped .

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They show that the gendarmes were aware that Dutroux was building cells in some of his houses for holding children , yet this information was either not passed on to other police forces searching for the missing girls or was overlooked when it was .

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They also show that police investigating a theft visited Dutroux late last year at the house where Julie and Melissa were being held but accepted his word that the children 's cries they could hear came from neighbours .

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Justice Minister Stefaan De Clerck has admitted that mistakes were made and ordered an inquiry at the same time as stressing there were no indications of a cover-up .

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There is also widespread disbelief that no one appeared to question how Dutroux , an unemployed father of three with no visible means of support , managed to own six houses .

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Death toll of Algeria bomb put at seven-newspaper .


An Algerian newspaper on Saturday put at seven -- two women and five children -- the death toll of a bomb blast in a market west of Algiers on Friday .

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Algerian security forces said on Friday three women and two children were killed and five people wounded when a home-made bomb exploded at a market in the coastal town of Bou Haroun , 65 km ( 40 miles ) west of Algiers .

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The security forces also said a man carrying an explosive device also died after it went off prematurely .


El-Watan paper said the blast killed seven -- a mother and her 25-year-old daughter , four young boys and a five-year-old girl .

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Several people were also wounded , it said .


The explosion was the latest in series of bomb attacks in Algeria 's four-year-old civil strife .


The government-appointed watchdog , Human Rights National Observatory , was quoted this month by local newspapers as saying about 1,400 civilians have died in bomb attacks blamed on Moslem rebels in the past two years .

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An estimated 50,000 Algerians and more than 110 foreigners have been killed in violence pitting Moslem rebels against government forces since early 1992 , when the authorities cancelled a general election in which radical Islamists had taken a commanding lead .

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Malta police seize cannabis among chilli sauce .


Police in Malta said on Saturday they had seized 7.5 tonnes of cannabis concealed in a shipment of chilli sauce on its way from Singapore to Romania .

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Police commissioner George Grech said the cannabis was found on Friday packed in 500 boxes hidden behind chilli sauce in a container that arrived at Malta Freeport a week ago .

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The container was on its way to Romania via the former Yugoslavia from Singapore and was the biggest drugs haul in Malta , police said .

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No street value was given for the cannabis .


A Czech coach crashed and burst into flames on a southern Austrian motorway early on Saturday , killing one person and injuring 15 , police said .

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Austrian television said the coach , which was carrying 45 , was en route from the Czech Republic to Italy when the accident occurred near Steinberg , 200 km southwest of Vienna .

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Most Spaniards back talks with Basque rebels--poll .


Most Spaniards would support government talks with the illegal Basque separatist group ETA if the rebels renounced violence permanently , a survey published in daily El Mundo on Saturday said .

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While 57 percent of the population supported negotiations with ETA ( Basque Homeland and Freedom ) , 30 percent opposed it , the survey by the state-controlled Centre for Sociological Studies ( CIS ) found .

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But 80 percent said ETA had shown little interest in achieving peace in the Basque country when it offered a one-week truce in July while continuing to hold prison officer Jose Antonio Ortega Lara , kidnapped in January .

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The problem of terrorism had neither worsened nor improved since the conservative Popular Party ( PP ) came to power in May , according to 56 percent of those questioned , while 22 percent said it had worsened .

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The survey questioned 2,496 people between July 17 and 21 and has a margin of error of plus or minus two percent .

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Thirty killed as floods plunge Lahore into chaos .


At least 30 people have been killed and about 100 injured in the flood-hit Pakistani city of Lahore , newspapers reported on Saturday .

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They said 461 mm ( 18 inches ) of rain had drenched the Punjab provincial capital in 36 hours , turning streets into rivers , knocking out power , water and telephone services , disrupting air and rail traffic , and sweeping away houses and cars .

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Newspapers quoted witnesses as saying they had seen bodies floating in the streets .


Among the dead were five members of the religious Jamaat-i-Islami party who drowned while trying to remove books from a basement library .

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They said thousands of people had been made homeless after a breach opened in the city canal , inundating residential areas .

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Army troops were called in to evacuate residents of low-lying areas to higher ground .


Officials said the Ravi and Chenab rivers , which both flow through Punjab , were in high flood and emergency services backed by troops were on full alert .

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Internet Startup funded to develop Java software .


A small team of engineers from Sun Microsystems Inc. 's JavaSoft unit said Sunday they have formed a new company , dubbed Internet Startup , to build Java infrastructure software .

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The fledgling company , established in a ground-floor office here over the last two weeks , has received venture financing from Bessemer Venture Partners of Menlo Park , Calif ..

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David Cowan , Internet Startup founder and acting chief executive , is a general partner of Bessemer .

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The startup company 's acting chairman is Jim Bidzos , the president of RSA Data Security , a unit of Security Dynamics Technologies Inc. as well as chairman of VeriSign .

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Internet Startup , which opened its doors with about half a dozen initial employees , combines experience at JavaSoft , Apple Computer Inc. , and Oracle Systems .

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" Java portends dramatic changes in the way we use the Internet , " said Hong Bui , vice president of engineering of the new company after serving as a senior engineer at JavaSoft .

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Java is a computer programming language introduced by Sun Microsystems in mid-1995 which has immediately captured the attention of the industry for its ability to operate across virtually all computer system in a relatively secure manner .

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Just last week , Sun Microsystems and the Silicon Valley venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers said they had completed financing of a $ 100 million fund managed by Kleiner Perkins to fund startups developing Java technologies .

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Java has been licensed by nearly 50 organisations , ranging from Microsoft Corp. and International Business Machines Corp. to the Taiwan government .

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Prasad Wagle , another former senior JavaSoft engineer who is among the founding engineers at Internet Startup , said the new company aims to build software infrastructure using Java to make networked applications ubiquitious .

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One feature of the Java language is that small software programmes , known as " applets " because they are small applications , can be downloaded from the server computers at the centre of networks onto individual computers for use .

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In this model , individual computer users can always gain access to the latest programmes and do not need to store more software than they are currently using on their computers at any one time , also saving costs of memory and storage .

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Chris Zuleeg , a veteran of Apple and a former JavaSoft marketing manager , is vice president of marketing at Internet Startup , whose Web site is www.internetstartup.com .

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Bessemer has funded numerous Internet pioneers , including PSI Net , VeriSign and Individual .

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GOLF - MICKELSON WINS FOURTH TITLE OF YEAR IN AKRON .


Phil Mickelson birdied two of the last three holes to win World Series of Golf by three strokes over Billy Mayfair on Sunday .

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It was the fourth tournament title this year for Mickelson , who shot an even-par 70 , after being tied for the lead with Billy Mayfair with three holes to play .

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Along with Mayfiar at 277 for the tournament were Steve Stricker , who had a 68 , and Duffy Waldorf , with a 66 .

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" It was very hard to sleep last night because there was so much I could accomplish with this win , " said Mickelson , who had a three-stroke lead entering the third round . "

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This was a win I wanted very , very much . "


Mickelson 's victory gave him a 10 year exemption to the PGA Tour .

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The $ 378,000 first place check brings Mickelson back to the top of the money list with $ 1,574,799 won this year .

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" This is a major championship golf course , and for me to perform well on this style of course is a big step up for me in my career and my performance in future majors , " he said .

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Mickelson three-stroke lead was cut to two when Mayfair birdied the course 's only easy hole , the par five second hole , while Mickelson three-putted for par from 25 feet .

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On the back nine Mickelson began driving erratically , and poor tee shots resulted in bogeys on the , eighth , 12th and 13th holes , bringing Mickelson back to four under par , tied with Mayfair , who had parred 14 straight holes after the birdie on no.2 .

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Mickelson then set up a tap in birdie on the 16th , sending a wedge shot to 18 inches .

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He had another birdie on the 17th , where he his a 6-iron to six feet .


Mayfair bogeyed the 17th , missing a five foot par putt , and dropped from solo second place to a three way tie for second .

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It was the second successive year in which Mayfair has finished runner up in this tournament .


He lost to Greg Norman in sudden death last year .


The defending champion was in contention , two behind Mickelson for much of the day , until he bogeyed the 13th and 14th holes .

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GOLF - SCORES AT THE WORLD SERIES OF GOLF .


round of the $ 2.1 million NEC World Series of Golf at

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Firestone C.C , 7149 yards , par 70 ( players U.S. unless noted ) :

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292 Wayne Westner ( South Africa ) 77 68 73 74 , Sven Struver (

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Cup tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix number denotes


5 - Andrei Medvedev ( Ukraine ) beat Martin Damm ( Czech

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Luke Jensen and Murphy Jensen ( U.S. ) beat Alexander Volkov

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( Russia ) and Handrik Dreekmann ( Germany ) 6-3 7-6 ( 7-5 )

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$ 450,000 Toshiba Classic tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix


4 - Kimiko Date ( Japan ) beat 1 - Arantxa Sanchez Vicario ( Spain )

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RALLYING - LEADING POSITIONS IN 1,000 LAKES RALLY .


Sunday after 23 special stages in the 1,000 Lakes Rally , sixth


1. Tommi Makinen ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer three hours

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2. Juha Kankkunen ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 12 seconds


3. Marcus Gronholm ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 2:09


4. Jarmo Kytolehto ( Finland ) Ford Escort 2:23


5. Kenneth Eriksson ( Sweden ) Subaru Impreza 2:39


6. Carlos Sainz ( Spain ) Ford Escort 3:03


MOTOCROSS - SWEDISH 500CC GRAND PRIX RESULTS .


Swedish 500cc motocross Grand Prix on Sunday :


3. Gert Jan Van Doorn ( Netherlands ) Honda

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World championship standings ( after 11 of 12 rounds ) :


5. Darryll King ( New Zealand ) Honda 178


MOTOCROSS - GERMAN 125CC GRAND PRIX RESULTS .


the German 125cc motocross Grand Prix on Sunday :


1. Sebastien Tortelli ( France ) Kawasaki


5. Collin Dugmore ( South Africa ) Honda


5. Michele Fanton ( Italy ) Kawasaki 160


MOTOR RACING - LEADING PLACINGS IN POKKA 1,000 KM RACE .


Sunday 's Pokka 1,000 km motor race , seventh round of the


International Endurance GT championship :


1. Ray Belim ( Britain ) / James Weaver ( Britain ) / J.J.Lehto

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( Finland ) Gulf McLaren FI GTR 171 laps - 6 hours 18 minutes

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48.637 seconds ( average speed 158.82 kph )


2. Anders Olofsson ( Sweden ) / Luciano della Noce ( Italy ) Ennea

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3. Andy Ballace ( Britain ) / Olivier Grouillard ( France ) Harrods

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4. Thomas Bscher ( Germany ) / Peter Kox ( Netherlands ) West McLaren

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5. Fabien Giroix ( France ) / Jean-Denis Deletraz ( Switzerland )

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6. Lindsay Owen-Jones ( Britain ) / Pierre-Henri Raphanel


( France ) / David Brabham ( Australia ) Gulf McLaren F !

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7. Jean-Marc Gounon ( France ) / Eric Bernard ( France ) / Paul

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Belmondo ( France ) Ennea Ferrari F40 167


8. Bruno Eichmann ( Germany ) / Gerd Ruch ( Germany ) / Ralf Kelleners

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9. Stephane Ortelli ( France ) / Bob Wollek ( France ) / Franz Konrad


10. Cor Euser ( Netherlands ) / H. Wada ( Japan ) / N. Furuya ( Japan ) GT2

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Fastest lap : Gounon , 2 minutes 03.684 seconds ( 170.680 kph )


Championship standings after seven rounds :


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1. Sarka Kasparkova ( Czech Republic ) 14.84 metres


1. Deon Hemmings ( Jamaica ) 55.13 seconds


1. Charmaine Crooks ( Canada ) two minutes 00.42 seconds


3. Margaret Crowley ( Australia ) 2:02.40


MOTOR RACING - BELGIAN GRAND PRIX RESULT .


Sunday 's Belgian Grand Prix motor race :


1. Michael Schumacher ( Germany ) Ferrari 1 hour 28 minutes


15.125 seconds ( average speed 208.442 kph )


2. Jacques Villeneuve ( Canada ) Williams 5.602 seconds


3. Mika Hakkinen ( Finland ) McLaren 15.710


4. Jean Alesi ( France ) Benetton 19.125


5. Damon Hill ( Britain ) Williams 29.179


6. Gerhard Berger ( Austria ) Benetton 29.896


7. Mika Salo ( Finland ) Tyrrell 1:00.754


8. Ukyo Katayama ( Japan ) Tyrrell 1:40.227


9. Ricardo Rosset ( Brazil ) Arrows one lap


10. Pedro Lamy ( Portugal ) Minardi one lap


11. David Coulthard ( Britain ) McLaren 37 laps completed


12. Martin Brundle ( Britain ) Jordan 34


14. Rubens Barrichello ( Brazil ) Jordan 29


16. Jos Verstappen ( Netherland ) Arrows 11


Did not start ( failed to complete one lap ) :


Heinz-Harald Frentzen ( Germany ) Sauber


Fastest lap : Berger 1:53.067 ( 221.857 kph )


MOTOR RACING - SCHUMACHER WINS BELGIAN GRAND PRIX .


Germany , driving a Ferrari , won the Belgian Grand Prix motor

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Canada 's Jacques Villeneuve finished second in his Williams


and Mika Hakkinen of Finland was third in a McLaren .


Frenchman Jean Alesi came fourth in his Benetton with


Britain 's Damon Hill fifth in a Williams and Gerhard Berger of

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World drivers ' championship standings ( after 13 rounds ) :


RALLYING - LEADING POSITIONS IN 1,000 LAKES RALLY .


after six of Sunday 's 12 special stages in the 1,000 Lakes


Rally , sixth round of the world championship :


1. Juha Kankkunen ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 2 hours 30 minutes

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3. Tommi Makinen ( Finland ) Mitsubishi Lancer 8 seconds


2. Marcus Gronholm ( Finland ) Toyota Celica 1:46


4. Jarmo Kytolehto ( Finland ) Ford Escort 1:56


5. Kenneth Eriksson ( Sweden ) Subaru Impreza 2:05


6. Thomas Radstrom ( Sweden ) Toyota Celica 2:23


MOTORCYCLING - WORLD SUPERBIKE CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS .


nine of the superbike world championship on Sunday :


1. Yuuchi Takeda ( Japan ) Honda 38 minutes 30.054 seconds


2. Noriyuki Haga ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:30.140


3. Wataru Yoshikawa ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:32.353


4. Troy Corser ( Australia ) Ducati 38:34.436


6. Aaron Slight ( New Zealand ) Honda 38:41.756


7. Norihiko Fujiwara ( Japan ) Yamaha 38:43.253


8. Carl Fogarty ( Britain ) Honda 38:49.595


9. Akira Ryo ( Japan ) Kawasaki 38:50.269


10. Shiya Takeishi ( Japan ) Kawasaki 38:52.271


1. Takuma Aoki ( Japan ) Honda 38:18.759


World championship standings ( after nine rounds ) :


6. Pier Francesco Chili ( Italy ) Ducati 175


7. Simon Crafar ( New Zealand ) Kawasaki 132


8. Anthony Gobert ( Australia ) Kawasaki 117


Revised placings for second race after the disqualification


of Japanese rider Noriyuki Haga for using an illegal carburettor


10. Keiichi Kitigawa ( Japan ) Suzuki 38:42.333


Revised world championship standings ( after nine rounds ) :


7. Simon Crafar ( New Zealand ) Kawasaki 133


MOTORCYCLING - JAPANESE WIN BOTH ROUND NINE SUPERBIKE RACES .


Teenager Yuuichi Takeda , racing in only his first season , outclassed the big names to win the first race in round nine of the world superbike championship on Sunday .

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Takeda , 18 , showed poise far beyond his years to overtake Australian Ducati rider Troy Corser , last year 's championship runner-up , with four of the 25 laps left .

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Honda 's Takeda was pursued past Corser by the Yamaha duo of Noriyuki Haga and Wataru Yoshikawa with Haga briefly taking the lead in the final chicane on the last lap .

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But Takeda found one more spurt of power to just take the flag first with Haga second and Yoshikawa third .

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Haga had the consolation of recording the fastest lap at 147.159 kph .


Corser , who crashed during practice on Friday , limped in fourth , four seconds behind Takeda with championship leader Aaron Slight of New Zealand 11 seconds behind the winner .

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In the second race , Takeda again challenged strongly until the fifth lap from the end when he crashed while running second to eventual race winner Takuma Aoki .

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Aoki , the elder brother of reigning 125cc world champion Haruchika , had a race-long duel with John Kocinski of the United States on a Ducati before taking the chequered flag .

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Kocinski led for the early laps before he was passed first by Aoki , who recorded the fastest lap of 147.786 kph , and then by Takeda .

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With Takeda out of the race , Kocinski regained second place but he could not overtake Aoki .

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Haga again was the unlucky rider finishing third ahead of Slight with Corser in 10th place .

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But the strong showing by the Japanese riders did not alter the championship table with Slight still leading on 280 points , followed by Corser with 269 and Kocinski with 254 .

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RUGBY LEAGUE - EUROPEAN SUPER LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .

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CRICKET - POLLOCK CONCLUDES WARWICKSHIRE CAREER WITH FLOURISH .


South African fast bowler Shaun Pollock concluded his Warwickshire career with a flourish on Sunday by taking the final three wickets during the county 's Sunday league victory over Worcestershire .

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Pollock , who returns home on Tuesday for an ankle operation , took the last three wickets in nine balls as Worcestershire were dismissed for 154 .

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After an hour 's interruption for rain , Warwickshire then reached an adjusted target of 109 with 13 balls to spare and record their fifth win in the last six games .

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Warwickshire are currently in fourth position behind Yorkshire , Nottinghamshire and Surrey .

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Yorkshire captain David Byas completed his third Sunday league century as his side swept clear at the top of the table , reaching a career best 111 not out against Lancashire .

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Lancashire 's total of 205 for eight from 40 overs looked reasonable before Byas put their attack to the sword , collecting his runs from just 100 balls with three sixes and nine fours .

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Yorkshire eventually reached their target with only four wickets down and 7.5 overs to spare .


SOCCER - HINCHCLIFFE CALLED INTO ENGLAND SQUAD .


England manager Glenn Hoddle called up uncapped Everton defender Andy Hinchcliffe on Sunday to the national squad for the opening World Cup qualifier against Moldova next weekend .

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Left-back Hinchcliffe , 27 , replaces Tottenham 's Darren Anderton who has a recurring groin problem .

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CRICKET - ENGLAND 326 AND 74-0 ; PAKISTAN 521-8 DECLARED .


their second innings at the close of the fourth day of the third


Scores : England 326 and 74-0 ; Pakistan 521-8 declared .


SOCCER - ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE SUMMARY .


Manchester United 2 ( Cruyff 39th minute , Solskjaer 70th )


Blackburn 2 ( Warhurst 34th , Bohinen 51st ) .


SOCCER - ENGLISH LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings ( ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


CRICKET - ENGLAND V PAKISTAN FINAL TEST SCOREBOARD .


the third and final test between England and Pakistan at The


England first innings 326 ( J. Crawley 106 , G. Thorpe 54 ; Waqar

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Pakistan first innings ( overnight 339-4 )


Total ( for eight wickets , declared ) 521


Bowling : Lewis 23-3-112-0 , Mullally 37.1-7-97-3 , Croft


Bowling ( to date ) : Wasim Akram 7-0-35-0 , Waqar Younis


CRICKET - PAKISTAN DECLARE FIRST INNINGS AT 521-8 .


innings at 521-8 on the fourth day of the third and final test


SOCCER - SCOTTISH PREMIER DIVISION RESULT / STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


CRICKET - PAKISTAN 473-6 AT TEA ON FOURTH DAY THIRD TEST .


Pakistan were 473-6 at tea on the fourth day of the third and final test at The Oval on Sunday in reply to England 's 326 .

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CRICKET - RUN-OUT GIVES LEWIS AND ENGLAND SLIM SATISFACTION .


Chris Lewis did his best to forget his controversial omission from the England one-day squad on Sunday but could not prevent Pakistan reasserting their dominance in the final test at The Oval .

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A super piece of fielding by Lewis , dropped as a disciplinary measure after arriving only 35 minutes before the start on the fourth morning , provided the only bright spot for England as the touring team batted on to reach 413 for five at the interval , a lead of 87 .

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The solitary wicket to fall was Asif Mujtaba , run out for 13 attempting a second run to third man where Lewis was lurking with a point to prove .

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There seemed scant danger until the Surrey player swooped on to the ball and returned off balance to county team mate Alec Stewart who whipped off the bails .

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Lewis , though , could not make similar waves with the ball as Salim Malik and Wasim Akram batted through the rest of the session with few alarms .

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Wasim rattled along to 30 not out , outscoring his partner who was unbeaten on 24 at the break , although the weather was again threatening to play the dominant role .

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Rain arrived just as the players left the field for lunch , forcing the ground-staff into action yet again .


The weather delayed the resumption for over an hour , the umpires finally announcing play would start again at 1445 local time ( 1345 GMT ) .

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CRICKET - ENGLAND NAME SQUAD FOR ONE-DAY INTERNATIONALS .


The England cricket squad was announced on Sunday for the one-day international series against Pakistan starting on Thursday .

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Squad : Michael Atherton ( captain ) , Alec Stewart , Graham Thorpe , Nick Knight , Graham Lloyd , Matthew Maynard , Ronnie Irani , Adam Hollioake , Robert Croft , Darren Gough , Peter Martin , Dean Headley , Alan Mullally .

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tennis tournament on Sunday ( prefix number denotes seeding ) :


3 - Wayne Ferreira ( South Africa ) beat Todd Woodbridge

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tennis tournament on Saturday ( prefix numbers denotes


3 - Wayne Ferreira ( South Africa ) beat 7 - Todd Martin ( U.S. )

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Todd Woodbridge ( Australia ) beat 4 - Marcelo Rios ( Chile ) 6-0

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SOCCER - TOGO BEAT CONGO 1-0 IN AFRICA NATIONS CUP QUALIFIER .

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in their African Nations Cup preliminary round , second leg


SOCCER - ETHIOPIA BEAT UGANDA ON PENALTIES IN AFRICAN NATIONS CUP .

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( halftime 1-0 ) in their African Nations Cup preliminary round ,


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first division after the weekend 's matches :


5 - Slawomir Wojciechowski ( GKS Katowice )


4 - Jacek Dembinski ( Widzew Lodz ) , Marcin Mieciel

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( Legia Warsaw ) , Ryszard Wieczorek ( Odra Wodzislaw )

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3 - Jacek Berensztain ( GKS Belchatow ) , Marek Citko ( Widzew ) ,

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Adam Fedoruk , Dariusz Jackiewicz ( both Amica Wronki ) ,

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Bartlomiej Jamroz ( Hutnik Krakow ) , Tomasz Moskal

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( Slask Wroclaw ) , Krzysztof Piskula ( Lech Poznan ) , Mariusz

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Srutwa ( Ruch Chorzow ) , Emmanuel Tetteh ( Polonia Warszawa ) ,

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SOCCER - ROMANIAN FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


soccer matches played over the weekend :


Sportul Studentesc 4 Universitatea Craiova 2


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


SOCCER - POLISH FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


SOCCER - RUSSIAN PREMIER DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Alaniya Vladikavkaz 3 Zhemchuzhina Sochi 1


Baltika Kaliningrad 2 Zenit St Petersburg 0


Chernomorets Novorossiisk 2 Rostselmash Rostov 1


CSKA Moscow 4 Kamaz Naberezhnye Chelny 2


Tekstilshik Kamyshin 2 Krylya Sovetov Samara 1


Lokomotiv Nizhny Novgorod 2 Uralmash Yekaterinburg 2


Standings ( tabulate under games played , won , drawn , lost ,


Note - if more than one team has the same number of points ,


precedence is given to the one with most wins .


team has the same number of wins and points , precedence goes to


the side with the most successful record against the others ) .


AUSTRALIAN RULES-AFL RESULTS AND STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points


for , against , percentage , total points ) :


RUGBY LEAGUE - AUSTRALIAN RUGBY LEAGUE RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Results of Australian rugby league matches played at the weekend .


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Premiership standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn ,


lost , points for , against , total points ) :


Malaysian Open badminton tournament on Sunday ( prefix numbers


2 - Ong Ewe Hock ( Malaysia ) beat Indra Wijaya ( Indonesia ) 1-15

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2 - Zhang Ning ( China ) beat 1 - Wang Chen ( China ) 11-7 11-8

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3/4 - Marlene Thomsen / Lisbet Stuer-Lauridsen ( Denmark ) beat

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1 - Yap Kim Hock / Cheah Soon Kit ( Malaysia ) beat Lee Wan Wah / Chong

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BASEBALL - RESULTS OF S. KOREAN PRO-BASEBALL GAMES .


Standings after games played on Saturday ( won , drawn , lost ,


winning percentage , games behind first place )


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS SUNDAY .


Baseball games played on Sunday ( home team in CAPS ) :


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE STANDINGS AFTER SATURDAY 'S GAMES .


standings after games played on Saturday ( tabulate under won ,


lost , winning percentage and games behind ) :


Rafael Palmeiro 's two-out single in the sixth inning scored Roberto Alomar with the go-ahead run as the Baltimore Orioles rallied past the California Angels 5-4 and took over the American League 's wild-card berth on Saturday .

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The Orioles trailed 4-3 when pinch-hitter Mike Devereaux led off the sixth with a triple against reliever Kyle Abbott ( 0-1 ) and scored the tying run on Alomar 's single .

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After Brady Anderson sacrificed , Palmeiro hit the first pitch into right field for a single , scoring Alomar .

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In Boston , former Mariner Darren Bragg 's first career grand slam in the sixth inning off reliever Randy Johnson lifted the Boston Red Sox to their fifth win in six games , a 9-5 victory over Seattle .

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" Just one of those things , I was just trying to make contact , " said Bragg . "

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The bases were loaded and I had two strikes .


I was just trying to put the ball in play .


I got the good part of the bat on it and it carried out . "


In Cleveland , Kevin Seitzer 's two-out single in the top of the 10th brought home David Hulse with the winning run as the Milwaukee Brewers sent the Cleveland Indians to their third straight extra-inning defeat 4-3 .

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Bob Wickman ( 5-1 ) , acquired from the New York Yankees on Friday , earned the win in his Milwaukee debut despite allowing the tying run in the eighth inning .

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At Minnesota , Marty Cordova and Matt Lawton hit solo homers and Frankie Rodriguez allowed six hits over seven innings to earn his first win as a starter in a month as the Minnesota Twins held on to beat the Texas Rangers 6-5 .

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" Yeah , you know it 's fun , it 's always fun when you 've got a chance to go to the ballpark and win a game that 's important , " said Rodriguez . "

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Every game should be important , but it 's a little more important now . "


In New York , Wally Whitehurst allowed two runs over seven innings for his first win in more than two years and Paul O'Neill 's three-run double snapped a sixth-inning tie as the New York Yankees held on for a 5-4 victory over the Oakland Athletics .

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Whitehurst , promoted from Triple-A Columbus on Wednesday , allowed seven hits and struck out one without a walk .

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It was his first win since defeating the St. Louis Cardinals on May 28th , 1994 when he was with the San Diego Padres .

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In Kansas City , Jose Rosado came within one out of his third complete game and Michael Tucker homered and drove in three runs as the Kansas City Royals broke a six-game losing streak with a 9-2 victory over the Detroit Tigers in a battle of cellar-dwellers .

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Rosado ( 5-3 ) allowed two runs -- one earned -- and seven hits over 8-2/3 innings with three walks and six strikeouts .

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In his last four starts , the 21-year-old left-hander has given up only four earned runs in 29-2/3 innings .


Fred McGriff went 5-for-5 and homered twice , including a three-run blast with two out in the bottom of the ninth inning that lifted the Atlanta Braves to a 6-5 victory over the Chicago Cubs on Saturday .

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" I was just trying to hang in there and hit it up the middle , " said McGriff about his homer in the ninth . "

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I was just looking for the ball , trying to stay on it .


Brad Clontz ( 6-2 ) picked up the win in relief for Atlanta , which has won 11 of its last 13 games .

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In Colorado , Mark Thompson threw an eight-hitter for his third complete game and Ellis Burks homered and drove in three runs as the Colorado Rockies beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 9-3 .

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Vinny Castilla and Dante Bichette each added two RBI for Colorado , which improved the major league 's best home mark to 44-20 .

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At Florida , Kevin Brown scattered seven hits over eight innings and Kurt Abbott snapped a sixth-inning tie with a two-run double as the Florida Marlins defeated the tired Cincinnati Reds 5-3 .

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The Marlins won for just the third time in nine games , taking advantage of a Reds ' team that has not had a day off since August 8th and was playing its fourth game in 43 hours .

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In Los Angeles , Tom Candiotti allowed two runs in seven innings and singled home the go-ahead run and Mike Piazza and Todd Hollandsworth drove in two runs apiece as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the New York Mets 7-5 .

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Candiotti ( 8-9 ) walked one , allowed five hits and struck out a season-high eight batters for Los Angeles , which has won 10 of its last 14 games .

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In San Diego , Joey Hamilton allowed two hits over seven innings and Rickey Henderson hit his major league-record 69th leadoff homer as the San Diego Padres defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 7-1 for their fifth win in six games .

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Hamilton ( 12-7 ) won his second straight start , allowing just a sixth-inning run and a pair of singles .

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In San Francisco , Pedro Martinez allowed two hits in eight innings and David Segui drove in two runs as the Montreal Expos shut out the San Francisco Giants 3-0 for their third straight win .

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Martinez ( 11-7 ) , who lasted just 1-1/3 innings in his last start against San Diego five days ago , pitched eight-plus innings , walking four and striking out 10 .

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In Houston , Orlando Miller 's two-run homer with one out in the bottom of the ninth off Todd Stottlemyre gave the Houston Astros a 3-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals and left the teams in a virtual tie for the lead in the NL Central division .

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Shane Reynolds ( 16-6 ) fired a five-hitter , walking one and striking out six .


BASEBALL - MAJOR LEAGUE RESULTS SATURDAY .


Baseball games played on Saturday ( home team in CAPS ) :


SOCCER - CHAMPIONS PORTO KICK OFF SEASON WITH A DRAW .


Portuguese champions Porto kicked off the season with a disappointing 2-2 home draw against Setubal and were lucky to squeeze in an equaliser in extra time .

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Porto , who are fighting to take their third consecutive title this season , were 2-0 down until the 86th minute when a header by Mario Jardel found the net after a string of missed opportunities , including a penalty taken by top league scorer Domingos Oliveira in the 60th minute .

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Domingos redeemed himself by netting the equaliser just into extra time .


Setubal , who put on a skilful counter-attack throughout the game , opened the scoring 16 minutes into the match when an unmarked Chiquinho Conde shot around Porto 's new Polish keeper Andrejez Wozniak .

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Conde scored his second in the 70th minute .


Benfica , also playing their first game of the season at home , were held to a 1-1 draw by northern side Braga despite the fact that the visitors were reduced to 10 men in the 54th minute after Rodrigo Carneiro was sent off for a second bookable offence .

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Benfica dominated the game but their lack of a first-class striker was apparent throughout and in the 30th minute they lost key Brazilian midfielder Valdo who suffered a light knee injury .

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Benfica finally opened the scoring in the 81st minute with a penalty taken by Helder after Luis Baltasar tripped up captain Joao Pinto under the referee 's nose .

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Braga defender Idalecio gave his team their equaliser seven minutes from the final whistle with a header into the back of the net .

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SOCCER - PORTUGUESE FIRST DIVISION RESULTS .


SOCCER - FIORENTINA WIN WITH BATISTUTA DOUBLE .


Argentine striker Gabriel Batistuta gave Fiorentina the perfect 70th birthday present on Sunday with two goals that gave the Italian Cup winners a 2-1 Supercup victory over serie A champions Milan .

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The victory , coming on the eve of the founding of the Florence club in 1926 , also marked the first time since the pre-season trophy between the Cup winners and league champions was started in 1988 that the Cup winners had won .

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Batistuta gave Fiorentina the lead in the 11th minute .


Sweden 's Stefan Schwarz picked him out with a lob to the edge of the box and Batistuta did the rest , chipping veteran defender Franco Baresi and scoring at the near post .

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Montenegrin midfielder Dejan Savicevic equalised for the home team , weaving past a defender , checking and firing in a left-footed shot in the 21st minute that gave young Fiorentina goalkeeper Francesco Toldo little chance .

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The scored stayed level to the final minutes but with a penalty shoot out looming , Batistuta took charge .

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French international midfielder Marcel Desailly fouled the Argentine , whose coach at Boca Juniors before he joined Fiorentina in 1991 was new Milan coach Oscar Tabarez , and Batistuta rammed home the free kick from 30 metres out .

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The 83rd minute shot , curling over the defence and dipping in under the bar from the striker dubbed Batigol by adoring Fiorentina fans , was just reward for Fiorentina who looked a far more impressive team .

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Milan 's player of the year George Weah missed a good first half opportunity but otherwise looked a little rusty while Italian team mate Roberto Baggio did not play due to injury .

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New Dutch signing Edgar Davids came on late in the second half as a Milan substitute but made little impact .

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The league season starts on September 8 .


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league champions Milan 2-1 ( halftime 1-1 ) in the pre-season


Supercoppa ( SuperCup ) in Milan on Sunday :


Fiorentina - Gabriel Batistuta ( 11th , 83rd )


SOCCER - NORWAY ELITE DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings after weekend matches ( tabulate under played , won ,


drawn , lost , goals for , against , points ) :


SOCCER - SUMMARY OF GERMAN FIRST DIVISION MATCH .


MSV Duisberg 0 Bayern Munich 4 ( Klinsmann 15th , Zieger 24th and

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SOCCER - RESULT OF GERMAN FIRST DIVISION MATCH .


Bundesliga standings after Sunday 's game ( tabulate under


played , won , drawn , lost , goals for , goals against , points ) :


SOCCER - SWISS PREMIER DIVISION RESULTS / STANDINGS .


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


GOLF - LEADING PRIZE MONEY WINNERS ON EUROPEAN TOUR .


winners on the European Tour after Sunday 's German Open ( Britain

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11. Frank Nobilo ( New Zealand ) 209,412


14. Padraig Harrington ( Ireland ) 202,593


15. Retief Goosen ( South Africa ) 188,143


Swiss Grand Prix World Cup cycling race on Sunday :

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1. Andrea Ferrigato ( Italy ) 5 hours 51 minutes 52 seconds


7. Frank Vandenbroucke ( Belgium ) all same time


8. Fabio Baldato ( Italy ) 11 seconds behind


10. Laurent Jalabert ( France ) both same time


Leading World Cup standings ( after 8 of 11 rounds ) :


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Andrea Ferrigato of Italy sprinted to his second cycling World Cup win in successive weekends with victory in the Swiss Grand Prix on Sunday .

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Ferrigato , winner of the Leeds Classic last Sunday with a one second win over Britain 's Max Sciandri , posted a similarly narrow margin of victory again .

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The 26-year-old Italian surged past compatriot Michele Bartoli and last year 's winner and defending World Cup champion Johan Museeuw of Belgium in the final few metres of the 237km race .

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All three clocked the same time of five hours 51 minutes , 52 seconds .


Former world champion Lance Armstrong of the United States was in front as the leading pack of seven riders turned into the Oerlikon velodrome for the final one lap sprint but quickly faded and settled for fourth .

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The back-to-back wins vault Ferrigato from sixth to second in the overall World Cup rankings with 112 points but Museeuw continues to hold a commanding lead with 162 points after eight of the 11 rounds .

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the German Open golf championship on Sunday after the final


round was abandoned because of torrential rain .


Scores after three rounds ( Britain unless stated ) :


199 Thomas Gogele ( Germany ) 67 65 67 , Robert Karlsson

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200 Diego Borrego ( Spain ) 69 63 68 , Miguel Angel Martin

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202 Greg Turner ( New Zealand ) 70 67 65 , Heinz-Peter Thul

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SOCCER - PSV BEAT GRONINGEN 4-1 TO PULL AWAY FROM AJAX .


Belgian international Luc Nilis scored twice on Sunday as PSV Eindhoven came from behind to beat Groningen 4-1 in Eindhoven .

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PSV and Vitesse Arnhem are the only unbeaten teams after two rounds of the Dutch league .

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Defending champions Ajax Amsterdam were defeated 2-0 loss away to Heerenveen on Saturday .


Groningen took the lead in the seventh minute when Dean Gorre intercepted a back pass from Ernest Faber to goalkeeper Ronald Waterreus and shot home .

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Faber made amends in the 32nd minute when he headed in a corner to score the equaliser .


PSV took control in the second half but could not score until Groningen striker Romano Sion was sent off in the 58th minute .

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Five minutes after his dimissal , Nilis gave PSV the lead and in the final 15 minutes he added another as did Zeljko Petrovic .

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Vitesse Arnhem upstaged Utrecht 1-0 despite ending the match with only nine men following the dismissal of defenders Raymond Atteveld and Erwin van der Looi .

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Gaston Taument scored twice and newly signed Argentine Pablo Sanchez once in Feyenoord Rotterdam 's 3-0 victory over Volendam .

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division soccer matches at the weekend :


Standings ( tabulated under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


SOCCER - DUTCH FIRST DIVISION SUMMARIES .


Feyenoord Rotterdam 3 ( Sanchez 27th , Taument 44th , 57th )


Vitesse Arnhem 1 ( Van Wanrooy 58th ) Utrecht 0 .

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Twente Enschede 1 ( Hoogma 30th ) Roda JC Kerkrade 1 ( Roelofsen

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Graafschap Doetinchem 3 ( Ibrahim 20th 63rd , Godee 54th ) RKC

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Waalwijk 2 ( Dos Santos 38th , Van Arum 73th penalty ) .

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Willem II Tilburg 0 Fortuna Sittard 1 ( Hamming 65th ) .

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NAC Breda 1 ( Arnold 70th ) Sparta Rotterdam 0 .

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Heerenveen 2 ( Wouden 53rd , Dahl Tomasson 74th ) Ajax Amsterdam

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SOCCER - DUTCH FIRST DIVISION RESULTS / TABLE .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , goals


DUTCH CAPTAIN BLIND ENDS INTERNATIONAL CAREER .


Dutch soccer captain Danny Blind has decided to end his international career , Ajax spokesman David Endt said on Sunday .

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Endt told Dutch news agency ANP that Blind , 35 , would no longer be available for selection for the national squad .

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The Ajax defender , who led the Netherlands into the quarter-finals at June 's European championship finals in England , had decided to devote his attention to playing for his Amsterdam club , Endt said .

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Blind , who played in the 1990 World Cup and the 1992 European championship , was capped 42 times for the Netherlands .

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CRICKET - INDIA BANS SIDHU FOR 50 DAYS .


Indian opener Navjot Singh Sidhu was on Sunday given a 50-day ban from international cricket for quitting this year 's tour of England , the Press Trust of India said .

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The right-handed batsman will have to forfeit half the money he was due to earn from the tour , the news agency said after a disciplinary committee set up by the Board of Control for Cricket in India met at Mohali , near the northern city of Chandigarh .

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Sidhu abandoned the Indian team after the third one-day international against England at Old Trafford in Manchester on May 26 , before India began a three-test series , citing serious differences with captain Mohammed Azharuddin .

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Azharuddin was sacked after the tour and replaced by Sachin Tendulkar .


Sidhu was not considered for the four-nation Singer Cup beginning in Sri Lanka this month and the Sahara Cup against Pakistan scheduled to be played in Canada next month .

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Sidhu , whose ban ends on October 14 , will be free to play domestic cricket .


He will not be considered for a test match against Australia starting on October 10 in New Delhi , the United News of India said .

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RUGBY LEAGUE - Australian rugby league standings .


Australian rugby league premiership standings after matches played at the weekend ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points for , against , total points ) :

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RUGBY UNION - All Blacks relive triumph .


PRETORIA , Aug 25 - Captain Sean Fitzpatrick and his All Blacks revisited the test venue today to relive some of the magic moments of yesterday 's momentous rugby victory over South Africa , NZPA reported .

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Most of the test 15 who beat the Springboks 33-26 to secure New Zealand 's first-ever rugby series in South Africa stood in the middle of the empty 50,000-seat Loftus Versfeld .

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Magnificent , ' ' said Fitzpatrick , New Zealand 's most capped player and the world 's most capped forward .

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The players relived the moves and tries , the tackles and what might have been as the emotions of victory continued .

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Zinzan Brooke , the only No 8 in test rugby to have scored a dropped goal when he kicked a three-pointer against England during last year 's World Cup , added a second to his name yesterday .

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I was right here , ' ' he said standing at the spot where he had received the ball for the kick .

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The maul was there and I was going to go in but I thought I should hold off because we had the ball .

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When ( halfback ) Justin Marshall got the ball he was going to go on the openside where Jon Preston was so I emptied my lung at him to get the ball this way .

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I just hit through and I was punching the air before the ball got there .


The decision to attempt a dropped goal was a spontaneous one , Brooke said .


It was just like the World Cup , the ball came and the chance was there . '

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Centre Frank Bunce said he had never felt so exhausted during a match .


We were gutted and there was nowhere to hide , they just kept coming at you , ' ' he said .


I was gone in the first 20 minutes , completely exhausted , but you had no choice .


It 's amazing just how big this ground was yesterday . '


Two-try winger Jeff Wilson said he was so tired that he kept asking Bunce where he should be while defending .

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He told me I 'm buggered too so just hang in there ' , ' ' Wilson recalled .

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About 4000 New Zealander supporters were partying into the early hours of today in the South African capital .

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Messages of goodwill continued to roll into the team hotel .


All Blacks coach John Hart said Prime Minister Jim Bolger rang him today to offer his congratulations .

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He thanked us on behalf of the country , which is really nice for the team , and I understand we had tremendous support at home . '

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Australian Rules - AFL results and standings .


Results of Australian Rules matches played at the weekend .


Standings ( tabulate under played , won , drawn , lost , points for , against , percentage , total points ) :


Rugby league-Australian rugby league results .


Results of Australian rugby league matches played at the weekend .


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South Africa yet to hear from apartheid enforcers .


South Africa 's truth commission begins issuing subpoenas this week in a bid to dig beneath the political rationales and find the sinister figures who have the blood of the country 's race war on their hands .

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Leaders of the major parties involved , from right-wing whites to radical blacks , appeared before Archbishop Desmond Tutu 's Truth and Reconciliation Commission last week to paint the broad picture of their actions for or against apartheid .

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Most , including former president F.W. de Klerk and African National Congress Deputy President Thabo Mbeki , offered apologies for any mistakes they had made and accepted broad responsibility for the actions of their foot soldiers .

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But none named those guilty of ordering or carrying out any of the gross violations of human rights which Tutu is investigating .

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Human rights lawyer Brian Currin said the hearings last week were not intended as a form of confessional and that those who personally committed crimes during apartheid would testify only before a separate arm of the commission , the amnesty committee .

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" I do n't think one should have expected more than what one got , " he said . "


That was not the amnesty committee where perpetrators are expected to open their hearts and souls and to tell it all . "


The commission , which has the power to grant amnesty to those who confess to abuses , has begun hearing the testimony from people already in jail for their deeds .

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But others , such as self-confessed secret police hit-squad leader Dirk Coetzee , have yet to testify .

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Tutu 's deputy chairman , Alex Boraine , told reporters the commission would begin issuing subpoenas to suspects who refused to appear voluntarily some time this week .

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He added that former hardline apartheid president P.W. Botha could be among those called .


But Currin , who is advising several people regarded as perpetrators , said this was not the best way to achieve the commission 's aims .

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" A person can be forced to appear , but the only way one is going to get to the truth in its totality is if people feel it is a good idea to go to the amnesty committee .

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He cited Coetzee , who was charged with murder after confessing in media interviews to dirty tricks .


His trial is due to start in December but the truth commission intends to decide on his amnesty application before that .

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Currin said the law had to be changed so all judicial prosecutions were automatically suspended for those who approached the truth commission .

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Last week 's submissions to the commission by the ANC , de Klerk 's National Party and the right-wing Freedom Front of General Constand Viljoen left many South Africans unsatisfied .

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Boraine said the picture was incomplete because officers of the apartheid-era security forces had yet to make their scheduled , separate submission , but one black caller to a radio talk show declared :

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" This whole thing is utterly useless , it does n't help us at all .


What the people expect is to have houses , to have jobs . "


Political scientist Jannie Gagiano said he doubted that the National Party , which implemented apartheid in 1948 and began dismantling it in 1990 , felt it carried a burden of guilt and needed to be exculpated through the commission .

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" Therefore I have some doubts about achieving some form of reconciliation .


One has to feel a bit guilty to feel the need for reconciling yourself to a historical adversary , " he said .

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Professor Tom Lodge of the University of the Witwatersrand demurred , saying :

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" In the irritation , in the jokes , in the anger that white South Africans express about the commission , I think there 's a moral uneasiness , and I think that 's healthy .

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Responsibility is percolating downwards . "


Moslem refugees seek to vote in Serb-held town .


Thousands of Moslem refugees denounced Bosnia 's elections as a farce on Sunday because Serb incomers would be able to vote in their old home town , cementing partition of the country .

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They said they were ready to force their way back across post-war ethnic lines to Serb-held Doboj , one of several towns where NATO troops fear violence involving refugees determined to vote where they once lived .

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The refugees , rallying in Matuzici on government territory two km from Doboj in northeast Bosnia , waved banners calling the polls a farce staged by the United Nations and the European Union . "

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We demand to vote in Doboj , " other banners said .


Bosnia 's Moslem-led central government and many displaced Moslems are angered by a key provision of the Western-organised September 14 elections allowing people to vote in post-war " new places of residence . "

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As a result , separatist Serb authorities have packed former Moslem majority towns with refugees of their own or registered other Serbs to vote there .

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Critics say that what was billed as an electoral process to reintegrate Bosnia as a single , multi-ethnic state is shaping up as a referendum on partition , de facto or de jure .

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" Only our physical presence in Doboj will mean that the Dayton peace treaty has truly been implemented , " Edhem Efendija Camdzic , Doboj 's Islamic imam-in-exile , told the refugees .

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" The main point of this rally is to highlight to the world powers what misfortune they brought upon us , " said Reuf Mehemdagic , head of Doboj municipality-in-exile .

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" Eleven thousand Serbs who came from elsewhere to Doboj will vote there .


How can we then expect the reintegration of Bosnia ?


But no one will stop us from returning to our homes . "


Mirhunisa Komarica , a government refugee official , said : " We want to vote where we were thrown out from .

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This is a protest of warning and the next step is entering our town using all means possible , so let them shoot . "

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Bosnian Vice President Ejup Ganic , a Moslem , told the refugees : " We have a message for the Serbs who are now in our homes not to plan the future of their children there because there will be no good fortune in that . "

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To loud applause , he added : " We will enter Doboj , untie the Doboj knot and ensure free movement for all .

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We have to enter Doboj to free the Serbs from their own ( separatist ) politics . "

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The Dayton peace accords guaranteed refugees the right to return to their homes and ensured freedom of movement across ethnic lines .

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But local police , controlled by nationalist parties in Moslem , Serb and Croat sectors of Bosnia , and civilian mobs have turned ceasefire lines into virtually impassable borders .

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The majority of refugees from Bosnia 's 1992-95 war are Moslems from the Serb-controlled north and east .

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NATO-led peace troops beefed up their presence in the Doboj area on Sunday to deter any sudden emotional attempt by the refugees to cross the Inter-Entity Boundary Line into Doboj .

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But the crowd dispersed without incident .


Moslems and Serbs have scuffled several times along the line in the past when Moslem refugees tried to surge into the town .

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Eight people died on Sunday in a blaze at a Moscow casino which the fire service said might have been started deliberately , Interfax news agency said .

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The number of casinos has soared in Moscow since the collapse of communism .


The mayor has said he wants to cut their number to five as part of a war against organised crime .

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President Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on fighting crime in July and handed wide-ranging powers to security chief Alexander Lebed , currently engaged in making peace in breakaway Chechnya .

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Russian troops start pullout , but not in Grozny .


Russian troops began to pull out from southern Chechnya on Sunday under a ceasefire agreement between Russian security chief Alexander Lebed and rebel leaders .

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But in the capital Grozny , the commander of Russian Interior Ministry forces in Chechnya , General Anatoly Shkirko , told Interfax news agency he was delaying a pullout of troops there after a group of Chechens disarmed an armoured column .

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Reuters cameraman Liutauras Stremaitis said a column of around 40 vehicles , including tanks , armoured personnel carriers , artillery cannons and lorries , escorted by Chechen rebels , pulled out of the village of Shatoi towards the border , around 50 km ( 31 miles ) to the north .

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In Grozny , Shkirko told Interfax he was suspending the pullout of troops from the capital until weapons seized by the Chechens were returned .

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Chechen rebel spokesman Movladi Udugov confirmed the weapons had been seized but that it was a maverick group of Chechens .

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He said later that the rebels had handed them over .


The pullout of the Russian troops is a key element of the peace plan brokered by Lebed , which aims to end the 20-month Chechnya conflict .

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Leftist Mexican armed group says troops in capital .


The leftist Popular Revolutionary Army ( EPR ) in a published report on Sunday said it operated throughout Mexico , including the capital , and denied government assertions it was isolated to one state .

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Commanders " Vicente " and " Oscar " , guarded by a dozen EPR gunmen , said in an interview with La Jornada outside Mexico City that the armed group was committed to overthrowing the government .

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" They ( government officials ) want to present us before public opinion as a local problem , as just being from Guerrero and as irrational radicals , " Commander Oscar told La Jornada .

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They said the ERP , whose fighters first appeared wearing military fatigues and brandishing assault rifles in the southwestern state of Guerrero on June 28 , had a 23,000-strong membership , but this could not be confirmed independently .

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La Jornada also reported on Sunday that the Mexican Army has discovered a 37-page , EPR manual detailing guerrilla tactics and strategies .

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It quoted the manual as saying : " The objective of the Basic Course on War is to provide for combatants of the EPR basic military knowledge for the armed conflict against the police and military apparatus of the bourgeoisie . "

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It was the second time armed " commanders " of the EPR have granted interviews outside Guerrero state , an extremely poor and volatile region where leftist protesters often have clashed violently with authorities .

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Unlike the better known and unrelated Zapatista rebels in southeastern Chiapas state , the EPR has never taken on the army in direct combat , according to official reports .

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There have only been a few skirmishes in Guerrero in which a handful of police , soldiers and civilians have been killed or injured .

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Ten people gunned down in northwest Colombia .


Unidentified gunmen dragged 10 men out ot their homes in a rural area of Colombia 's northwest province of Antioquia and shot them to death , authorities said on Sunday .

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Police said the killings occurred on Saturday morning in the municipality of Anza but news of the massacre only reached the provincial capital of Medellin early on Sunday .

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Anza is only 20 miles ( 30 km ) west of Medellin , but there are no roads linking it directly to the city .

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Police initially said leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) rebels were prime suspects in the killings .

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But gunmen of the left and right have killed with impunity across Antioquia for years , and there were unconfirmed reports that the latest bloodshed was the work of a right-wing paramilitary group .

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Two Thai border police wounded by Burma gunmen .


Two Thai border policemen were seriously wounded on Sunday when members of a Burmese rebel splinter faction ambushed their patrol in northwest Thailand , security officers said .

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The two were wounded in the early hours of Sunday when some 30 members of the Democratic Karen Buddhist Army ( DKBA ) ambushed their patrol on the Thai side of the border with Burma , to the north of the town of Mae Sot .

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The Thai army commander in the area , Col Suvit Maenmuan , told reporters the DKBA , which is allied with the Rangoon military government and based in southeast Burma , had recently stepped up cross-border infiltration .

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Suvit said the motive for their intrusions was not clear but he had ordered reinforcements to beef up security along the porous frontier .

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The DKBA was formed in late 1994 by hundreds of guerrillas who split from the anti-Rangoon Karen National Union ( KNU ) and allied themselves with Burmese government army , their former enemies .

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DKBA members have since launched intermittent cross-border attacks on Karen refugee camps in Thailand , where the majority of inhabitants are KNU supporters , and on Thai villages and police posts near the border .

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Bangkok has complained to Rangoon about the raids but Burmese military authorities say they have no contol over the faction .

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Thai army commanders reject the explanation , saying they have evidence the Burmese army supplies and directs the renegade ethnic minority splinter faction .

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U.S. F-14 catches fire while landing in Israel .


A U.S. fighter plane blew a tyre and caught fire while landing on Sunday at Israel 's Ben Gurion airport , an airport spokesman said .

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" A U.S. F-14 military plane while landing at Ben Gurion airport blew a wheel and a fire broke out , " said spokesman Yehiel Amitai , adding that the two pilots on board were not injured .

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" Airport officials declared an emergency situation at the highest level and the fire brigade put out the flames while the plane was landing , " he said .

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Egypt hopes jars will reveal secrets of mummies .


Archaeologists in Egypt have found pots used by ancient Egyptians in burial rites that they say may reveal the secrets of mummification .

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Mohammed Saleh , director of the Egyptian Museum , told Reuters television a U.S. team found the pots , some of which contain human intestines , in a tomb built into the rocks while digging in Dahshour , a village 40 km ( 25 miles ) south of Cairo .

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Dahshour is the site of Egypt 's second largest pyramid , built for the pharaoh Seneferu more than 4,500 years ago .

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Saleh said the team -- from New York 's Metropolitan Museum -- found four Canopic jars and two unguent jars in the tomb , which belongs to an unidentifed person who lived during the 12th Dynasty ( 1991-1786 BC ) in the Middle Kingdom .

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" This finding is important because one of the jars still contains substances and materials used in the conservation of mummies and the conservation of the intestines and all the things which were in the cavity of a person we have not identified yet , " Saleh said .

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" We hope that the analysis of such substances and liquids will reveal some secrets of the mummification process and materials used in this process , " he added .

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Saudi Arabia executed on Sunday a Pakistani man accused of belonging to an armed gang of robbers , Saudi television reported .

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It quoted an Interior Ministry statement as saying Shabir Ahmad Muhammad Jalil was executed in Mecca .

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He was the 26th person executed this year in the kingdom .


Saudi Arabia beheads convicted drug smugglers , rapists , murderers and other criminals .


These are some of the leading stories in the Jordanian press on Sunday .


Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .


No going back on democracy ; attempts to tamper with security and stability will not be tolerated .


Information Minister Marwan Muasher says there is evidence that " some official parties in Iraq " were behind the disturbances in the south .

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- Government asks senior Iraqi " diplomat " to leave , reviews status of others .


- Japanese foreign minister arrives for talks on peace process , bilateral ties .


- Prime Minister Abdul-Karim al-Kabariti says government commited to lifting ceiling of democracy .


- Saudi Prince Sultan telephones prime minister .


- Jordan releases 32 from southern town of Karak .


- Jordan expresses anger at conduct of some Iraqi diplomats in Amman which are incompatible with diplomatic traditions .

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- Kabariti and parliament speaker meet to discuss ways to reactivate parliament 's legislative role .


- State security court starts investigating suspects in unrest .


Netanyahu , Weizman consult on Arafat invitation .


Israeli President Ezer Weizman , weighing a possible meeting with Yasser Arafat , consulted on Sunday with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , a spokesman said .

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Weizman and Netanyahu met at the president 's official Jerusalem residence and planned to speak to the media at the end of their talks , the prime minister 's spokesman said .

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Earlier , the director of the president 's office denied a report in Israel 's Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper that Weizman had already invited Arafat to his private home for talks in the coming week on the future of the Israel-PLO peace process .

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But the official , Aryeh Shumer , said it was only fitting that Weizman and Arafat should talk after the Palestinian leader sent the Israeli president a letter which Yedioth Ahronoth reported contained an emotional appeal to save the peace proces .

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The newspaper said Netanyahu , who is cool to meeting Arafat himself , opposed talks between Weizman and the Palestinian president .

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After Moslem suicide bombers killed 59 people in Israel in February and March , Weizman called for peace efforts with the PLO to be suspended .

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Shumer said his current position was that the peace process must continue .


These are some of the leading stories in Israeli newspapers on Sunday .


Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy .


- Palestinian President Arafat opens civilian struggle against Israel , calls on Palestinians to build in self-rule areas .

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- Seven ministers and governor of Bank of Israel will visit the United States at the end of September and in October .

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- Israel bans plane donated by the Netherlands to Arafat to land at Gaza airport .

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- Former prime minister Peres to Morocco today .


- Israeli President Weizman invited Palestinian President Arafat to meet him at his private residence .

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- Netanyahu opposes transit camps for foreign workers facing expulsion .


- Foreign Minister Levy to visit Egypt soon .


- Palestinian Authority has taken over education in East Jerusalem .


- Syrian armoured columns on the move in Lebanon .


- Shimon Peres to Morocco , will stay at king 's private residence .


- Palestinian Minister Erekat says Israel-PLO talks will begin by September 2 .


- Prime minister names former general Avraham Tamir to staff after failing to establish national security council .

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- Cabinet puts off decision on foreign workers .


- Internal Security Minister Kahalani warns cabinet of increase in organised crime .


Voting begins in second round of Lebanese election .


Voting began on Sunday in north Lebanon in the second round of parliamentary elections with 580,000 voters eligible to choose 28 members of the 128-member parliament .

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A thin trickle of voters began casting their ballots in this northern port city for the five rival lists of candidates as polling stations opened at 7 a.m. ( 0400 gmt ) .

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Israeli president invites Arafat to home - paper .


Israeli President Ezer Weizman has invited Yasser Arafat to meet him at his private home , Israel 's biggest newspaper said on Sunday .

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The Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu , who has said he has no desire to hold talks with the Palestinian president , opposes the meeting due to be held this coming week .

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The newspaper said Weizman scheduled the meeting at his private residence in the central Israeli village of Caesarea after Arafat sent him an emotional appeal " to save the peace process " .

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Netanyahu met Weizman last Tuesday and voiced his opposition , Yedioth said .


" I am prepared to postpone the meeting under one condition -- that you give me a commitment right now to meet Arafat yourself within 10 days , " the paper quoted Weizman as telling Netanyahu .

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It said Netanyahu had yet to give Weizman an answer .


The office of Israeli president is largely ceremonial .


But Weizman , a former defence minister and an architect of Israel 's peace treaty with Egypt , has spoken out frequently on the peace process with the Palestinians -- at times urging the former Labour government to slow it down .

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Corporate America taking new view on compensation .


Corporate America is planning major changes in employee compensation in the next few years , according to a recent study .

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What it comes down to is this : If you 're highly skilled , you 'll benefit nicely .


But if you 're not and cannot contribute to your employer 's goals , you 'll be paid less .


The survey , conducted in late 1995 and the early part of this year by management consulting firm Towers Perrin , showed that the focus will be on an employee 's overall value to the company 's bottom line -- rather than how well an employee performs a specific task .

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Presently , for example , if an accountant 's job involves doing five specific tasks , he or she can expect a certain salary , said Sandra O'Neal , a Towers Perrin principal .

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In the future , the accountant will be evaluated solely on " knowledge , skill and abilities , " she said .

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In addition to using accounting skills , the accountant will also have to be creative , work well in a team , be sensitive to customer needs and set productivity goals .

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" The good news is , if you 're highly skilled and have many abilities , you 'll be paid more , " said O'Neal .

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" The bad news is , if you 're not skilled and ca n't contribute to a team , to customer service and the organisation 's goals , you 'll be paid less . "

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Of the 750 mid-to-large size corporations surveyed , 81 percent had undergone a major restructuring in the last three years , and more than two-thirds reported that productivity and profits were up as result .


Next on the agenda for these firms is developing a new compensation structure , and 78 percent report that they are considering a new , skills-based plan for both management and non-management employees .

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This coming shift , O'Neal said , " is not just isolated or a fad .


After World War II , corporations adopted a " military model " creating hierarchical organisations where " the concept of defined tasks worked great , " she said .

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But as the economy became global , customers were more demanding and problems became more complex .


" Multi-layers kept management at a distance from its customers , " O'Neal said .


Now organisations must change to stay competitive .


O'Neal says firms will place a greater emphasis on teams and team performance in giving raises .


If your team does well , you 'll do well .


If it does n't do well , do n't expect a raise .


Is this fair to an employee who can go the distance but is on a team that ca n't keep up ?


" That 's an important question we used to ask a lot , " said O'Neal . "


The more important question is -- ' Do we have results ? '


To get those results , 27 percent of the companies surveyed plan to eliminate base pay increases in favour of cash bonuses and incentives , such as employee and team award programmes and education .


Companies that can change their culture and view employees as business partners will do well , O'Neal said .

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For example , the survey rated some participants in the survey as " high-performing " companies , based on their return on equity above 16 percent .

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Those companies also said they already offer employees variable pay and business education , give their managers more control over pay decisions and celebrate employee and team success .

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" They respect employees more , they trust employees more and they value their employees more , " O'Neal said .

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" The key to success at high-performance companies is engaging employees in a business partnership .


It will improve a company 's bottom line . "


Belgian police arrest detective in Dutroux affair .


Investigators arrested a senior police detective on Sunday in connection with their inquiries into Belgium 's child sex scandal , Public Prosecutor Michel Bourlet said .

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" Georges Zicot was arrested and will be charged with truck theft , insurance fraud and document forgery , " Bourlet told a news conference .

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He said there had been searches at three sites on Sunday , including one at the Charleroi judicial police headquarters where Zicot worked .

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Zicot , 45 , is a specialist in tackling vehicle theft .


Belgian media reported that he had been questioned twice in the past two years about thefts but released both times .

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He was promoted to chief detective earlier this year .


Bourlet said two other people had also been arrested .


One was Gerard Pignon , the owner of a warehouse where stolen vehicles were allegedly stored .

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Bourlet said the investigation into the vehicle theft ring would be added to the inquiry into the paedophile sex scandal in which five other people have already been arrested .

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He said the connection was through Bernard Weinstein , an accomplice of convicted child rapist Marc Dutroux -- the central figure in the paedophile scandal that has sent shockwaves across Europe .

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Weinstein was found dead last weekend alongside the bodies of eight-year-olds Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo in a house belonging to Detroux , who said they starved to death earlier this year , nine months after being abducted in June 1995 .

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Two other girls have been rescued and police are hunting for at least two more who Dutroux has admitted kidnapping a year ago .

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" Dutroux has admitted killing Weinstein after a disagreement between the accomplices in an affair of truck theft , " Bourlet said .

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Another four people were also questioned at the weekend but had not been detained , Bourlet added .


Anne Thily , public prosecutor in the eastern city of Liege where Julie and Melissa lived , said this was a major case involving some 50 investigators -- including two from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation .

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French 1997 budget due around September 10 - Juppe .


Prime Minister Alain Juppe said on Sunday the draft 1997 budget and plans for funding the social security system would be pubished around September 10 .

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" The texts are practically ready , " he told reporters after a weekend of talks with President Jacques Chirac in a Riviera fortress .

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The budget had been widely expected a week or so later .


19 die as bus falls in river in Pakistani Kashmir .


A bus fell from a mountain road into a river in Pakistan-ruled Azad ( free ) Kashmir on Sunday , killing at least 19 people and injuring 11 , police said .

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They said dead included five refugees from the Indian-ruled part of Kashmir , where Moslem militants have waged a separatist revolt since early 1990 .

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The police said 14 of the 45 passengers on the bus died instantly when the vehicle fell into Kunar river from a narrow road leading from the state capital Muzaffarabad to the nearby Pakistani town of Garhi Habibullah northwest .

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North Afghan highway opening put off , radio says .