Lifting of import restriction on US items ends longstanding dispute
America Online will not be the only US enterprise making its presence felt in India. While the world was partying towards the end of the millennium last fortnight, Washington and New Delhi quietly concluded an agreement.



Jewish homeland in Russia resembles forgotten dream
Russia's Jewish autonomous region, founded as a socialist Jewish homeland in 1934, is larger than Belgium and lies in the far east of Siberia, skirting China's border. The crumbling apartment blocks of the main town of Birobidzhan look like an old, forgotten dream.



Pinochet unfit to stand trial: Britain
Britain intends to release former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet after medical tests showed he was unfit to stand trial, the Home Office announced late on Tuesday.



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