VNS: Fri 22-Jul-1994
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Edition : 3120 Friday 22-Jul-1994 Circulation : 5891
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Here is the News at 09:00 BST on Friday 22nd July 1994
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UK News
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Mr Tony Blair moved to consolidate his overwhelming victory as Labour
leader yesterday by claiming a mandate to break free from the party's
past and move closer to the centre of politics. With Mr John Prescott
elected as his deputy, he vowed to lead Labour back to power after 15
years in Opposition.
A thief who stole a suitcase at one of the South-East's busiest railway
stations yesterday discovered when he got it home that it contained
bomb-making equipment including explosives. He rushed out into the
street shouting: "It's a bomb, it's a bomb." He had picked up the case
at Reading station platform. The discovery prompted a full-scale alert
with shops and houses evacuated in the town centre.
European News
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Euro-MPs narrowly approved the election of Mr Jacques Santer, prime
minister of Luxembourg, as the next president of the European
Commission after a turbulent debate yesterday. The vote, by 260 votes
to 238, brings to an end the month of chaos that has dogged Europe
since Mr John Major vetoed the original front-runner, Mr Jean-Luc
Dehaene of Belgium.
French air traffic controllers plan three days of industrial action
this weekend, promising delays for Britons flying to Spain at the start
of the school holidays. The industrial action which starts today
affects the control centre at Aix-en-Provence, southern France, which
handles 2,000 flights daily. Nearly half those summer flights are
British and German charter flights heading for Spanish resorts.
World News
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A cholera epidemic sweeping through Rwandan refugee camps near the
border in Zaire has killed several thousand people in only 36 hours.
Last night an aid worker estimated that the disease was killing one
person every minute in eastern Zaire, where up to two million
war-traumatised refugees have fled.
The Bosnian government has withdrawn support for the peace plan after
the Bosnian Serbs rejected it. The move by the Muslim-Croat federation
was seen last night as an attempt to ensure a voice in any
renegotiation of the plan.
{News courtesy of the Daily Telegraph}
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