Teletext Recovery - 10/12/2000

P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sun 10 Dec 21:10/25        . :. The following pages fjature  . news stories from BBC  . Monitoring, based in Caversham near Rjading.   BBC Monitoring selects and  translates reports from TV,  radio, news agencies and   Press from 150 countries in more than 70 languages.  .  . .: For more information on one :. . of the world's largest media monitoring bodies, visit our Web site: http://www.monitor.bbc.co.uk 1/5 Extra: More world news coverage 142 Headlines 101 Index 102 Sport 300 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sun 10 Dec 21:02/37       MOROCCAN POLICE BREAK UP RIGHTS PROTEST Police anti-riot squads in the Moroccan capital Rabat have arrested more than 40 humanJrights activists during a protest at the parliament building. The Moroccan Human Rights Association (AMDH) was marking international human rights day, although the authorities had banned the meeting in the capital. Eyewitnesses said riot squad officers beat several of the protesters as the8 were led away to waiting police vans. The AMDH vice-president, Abderrahmane Benameurand, was among those arrested. 2/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sun 10 Dec 21:16/57       UN TO RESTRICT USE OF TOXIC CHEMICALS Delegates from 122 countries have agreed to ban or restrict the use of various highly poisonous chemicals, some linked to cancer and biuuh defects The UN Environment Programme organised the conference in Johannesburg which singled out twelve pollutants, ranging from industrial chemicals to pesticides Thjy made an exception for DDT because of its use in controlling malaria. But the convention, to be signed in Stockholm njxt May, could still take years to become legally binding. 3/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sun 10 Dec 21:11/36       COLOMBIAN ARMY KILLS ITS OWN BY MISTAKE An army patrol shot dead six of its own soldiers and four civilians - including some children - in a case of mistaken identity in northeastern Colombia. The patrol opened fire on a lorr8 400 kilometres northeast of the capital Bogota, thinking it was carrying a group of rightwing paramilitaries. Two more soldiers and a woman were also injured in the accidental shooting. The Colombian army is carrying out counter-insurgency campaigns against left- and rightwing armed groups. 4/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

P143 CEEFAX 2 143 Sun 10 Dec 21:13/51       MAURITANIA Supporters of the opposition politician Ahmed Ould Daddah say he has been arrested on returning from Paris. Security sources have said he was being questioned about meeting "terrorist elements". He backs the Palestinians and wants all ties with Israel cut. GEORGIA Two UN military observers have been kidnapped in the Kodor Gorge buffer zone between breakaway Abkha:ia province and western Georgia proper. Thjy were oversejing the Georgian- Abkhaz ceasefire. There is no indication as to who seized them. 5/5 Headlines 101 Extra 140 Ticker 151 News Index 102 Flash 150 Newsreel 152 Politics News Indx News Xtra Main Menu

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