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At a Glance
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Securities service
JINAN: China kicked off a long-awaited wireless securities service via mobile phone in Shandong, a peninsula province in East China, according to the Shandong Branch of China Unicom.
Mandate extended
UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday decided to extend the mandate of the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) for another year until January 2002 for the territory's smooth realization of independence.
Bush calls Putin
US President George W Bush and Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone on Wednesday, White House said.
The two presidents had a 15-minute “friendly get-acquainted session", White House spokeswoman Mary Ellen Countryman said. She declined to discuss the “range of issues" that came up in the conversation, which Bush initiated.
Putin visits Yeltsin
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday morning visited his predecessor Boris Yeltsin at Moscow's Central Clinical Hospital and congratulated him on his 70th birthday.
Yeltsin was sent to hospital on Tuesday with high fever and a suspected acute viral infection. He is still under intensive medical treatment, doctors said.
Pinochet arrested
SANTIAGO: Chile's former leader Augusto Pinochet was placed under house arrest and was also informed of his prosecution on Wednesday on charges of murder and kidnapping.
Mad cow crisis
BRUSSELS: European Commission said on Wednesday it will spend a fresh funding of 971 million euro (US$893 million) to deal with crisis of mad cow disease, or BSE.
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