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KILLED: A Bangladeshi soldier was killed and two others were wounded when U.N. peacekeepers were ambushed on the Iraqi side of the demilitarized zone, the Kuwait News Agency reported Saturday. Sources with the U.N. Iraq-Kuwait Observation Mission said the shooting occurred Friday night near the Iraqi town of Safwan in the zone, which runs six miles into Iraq.
BOMB EXPLODES: A homemade bomb detonated Saturday in front of the Honduran Economy Ministry, causing only light damage, officials said. In a note, the self-styled Morazanista Patriotic Front claimed responsibility for the bombing, which apparently is a response to the new government economic stabilization plan that calls for tax hikes.
ARRESTS: More than 200 neo-Nazis were arrested in Germany and Luxembourg on Saturday as they marked the seventh anniversary of the death of Adolf Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess. Several thousand people held counterdemonstrations to protest the rise of neo-Nazi groups.
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ACCIDENT: A 4-year-old boy in Moreno Valley, Calif., died and his 3-year-old playmate was in fair condition after they became trapped in a car's trunk and waited in 160-degree heat to be discovered. Jared Victor Tootell and Anthony R. Pullam were playing near their homes 65 miles east of Los Angeles on Friday when they climbed inside the trunk of a car and accidentally locked themselves in, authorities said.
WON'T TESTIFY: A suspect in an alleged plot to bomb the United Nations and other sites who had seemingly turned government witness will not testify against his fellow defendants after all, federal prosecutors said Friday. In a two-paragraph letter to the judge, Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick J. Fitzgerald said prosecutors decided not to enter into a "cooperation agreement" with Siddig Ibrahim Siddig Ali.
RESIGNED: Former vice presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro resigned as a partner in a law firm that's representing Libya in connection with the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. The Chicago-based firm, Keck, Mahin & Cate, said in a statement Friday that the link to Libya was at odds with "her public service interests, which the firm supports." President Clinton appointed Ferraro to head the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.