Nawaz Sharif to visit China on June 28
Amid international condemnation of Pakistan over the Kargil issue, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif is scheduled to undertake a "working visit" to China later this month.

Yeltsin gives Kennedy files to Clinton
US President Bill Clinton's hour-long summit with Boris Yeltsin yielded an unexpected bonanza on Sunday when the Russian President handed over a thick stack of KGB files on the assassination of John F. Kennedy, press reports said.

Tabulation of Indonesian poll delayed
Indonesian election authorities decided today to delay indefinitely the national tabulation of Indonesia's general election due to protests by political party leaders of alleged widespread irregularities in the June 7 poll.

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