Wednesday, November 10, 1999
Russians continue to blast Chechnya as US protests
Russian forces continued to bombard breakaway Chechnya on Tuesday, as Moscow rejected renewed pressure from Washington to halt its military offensive. But the first snows of winter and heavy fog forced the Russian airforce to cut back on bombing missions across Chechnya, marking a difficult new phase in the two-month-old Russian campaign against the rebel republic.
10 yrs on, much of Berlin Wall in US
Ten years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, fragments of the structure can be found from Washington to Hawaii, in museums, universities and gardens, as mementoes of the end of the Cold War.
No democracy timetable -- Musharraf
Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, insisted on Monday there was no timetable for his country's return to democracy until what he said his own goals were achieved.
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