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kuwait
Panel Pays $469 Million in '91 Gulf War Claims
The U.N. panel overseeing compensation for victims of Iraq's 1990 invasion of Kuwait said Wednesday it paid a $469.6 million installment from Iraqi oil funds to cover claims for losses and damages.
The latest transfer, consisting of 32 payments ranging from $2 million to $22 million, was made to governments, corporations and international groups in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and the United States. In all, it has paid nearly $23 billion in compensation.
CONGO
Amnesty Calls for Security Services Reform
Congo should reform its security forces and prosecute members accused of raping, murdering and torturing suspected opponents of President Joseph Kabila, Amnesty International said Thursday.
The British-based rights body said government security, intelligence and police services continue to abuse human rights despite last year's landmark elections, designed to end years of war and chaos in the vast, unruly Central African state.
south korea
Ex-President's Role Cited in Kidnap Plot
A former president of South Korea gave a tacit nod to a secret 1973 operation to kidnap Kim Dae-jung, then a dissident leader who later became the first opposition-backed president and a Nobel peace laureate, a government panel said Wednesday.
The fact-finding panel of the National Intelligence Service also said it cannot rule out the possibility that former president Park Chung-hee may have directly ordered the kidnapping of Kim, then his main political rival. "It is judged that there was at least an implicit permission" from Park, the panel said.
Mexico
10 Oil Workers Die in Gulf Storm; Others Missing
At least 10 oil workers were killed when a drilling rig hit an oil platform, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico, the state-owned oil company said Wednesday. Other workers were missing.
Rescuers pulled 58 oil workers from storm-tossed waters but had not controlled the oil leak, Mexico's oil monopoly Petroleos Mexicanos, or Pemex, said in a news release. At least 18 other employees of the state oil company were floating at sea in life rafts or unaccounted for, it said.
