Saturday, October 24, 1998
Peace deal overcomes last minute snag
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat agreed on Friday on a breakthrough land-for-peace West Bank accord, overcoming a last-minute snag about the status of an American convicted of spying for Israel.
Scrub child labour off, urge UN organisations in India
A common position paper on the issue of child labour, adopted by 16 UN organisations in India has called for giving immediate priority to abolish the most intolerable and exploitative forms of child labour. These include child prostitution and trafficking, employment of very young children, child labour in hazardous occupations and processes and any form of child labour under abusive and exploitative conditions that severely damages the child's mental, physical, moral and social development.
Indo-Russia oil deal in December
Russia will send a delegation to India before the proposed visit of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in December to concretise Indian equity participation in Russia's major oil companies with the purpose of exploring and developing oil fields in Russia.
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