Iranian body renews bounty on Rushdie
The radical Iranian foundation Khordad-15 renewed the 2.5 million dollar bounty on the head of British author Salman Rushdie in full-page newspaper advertisements published here today.

US bombers arrive at British air force base
Six US B-52 bombers, each capable of carrying up to 20 cruise missiles landed on Sunday at a British air base to prepare for possible NATO air strikes against Serbian forces in Kosovo.

For women in Karachi, Shariat may mean a razor across a bare arm
Sleeveless kurtas and shorts may soon be phased out of Pakistan's most liberal city, Karachi. Not because they are no longer in vogue, but because they will, quite simply, be classified `unacceptable' under the new Islamic system that Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is introducing in Pakistan.

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