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Japanese prime minister calls for elections
By Times wire
Published August 9, 2005
TOKYO - Stung by defeat on a cherished economic reform, Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi will lead a bruised and fractured ruling party into elections next month amid the prospect of being ousted from power after almost 50 years of uninterrupted rule.
Privatizing the post office's staggeringly rich savings account system has been a decadelong quest for Koizumi. But bills to break up Japan Post and create the world's biggest bank were rejected by Parliament's upper house Monday with the help of defectors from his own Liberal Democratic Party.
Koizumi retaliated by dissolving the legislature's more powerful lower chamber and scheduling a Sept. 11 election for its 480 seats. He said Liberal Democratic Party foes of postal reform wouldn't get the party's support in the ballot, which he vowed to make a referendum on the plan.
Man accused of crimes against humanity in Bosnian war arrested
BUENOS AIRES - A former Bosnia Serb paramilitary leader, wanted by a U.N. tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity, was captured Monday in Argentina, officials said.
Milan Lukic, who was indicted in The Hague, Netherlands, in 2000 in connection with a string of notorious killings dating to the Bosnian war, was awaiting initial questioning after his arrest here, authorities said.
Earlier this year, a Serbian court sentenced Lukic in absentia to 20 years in prison for his role in the abduction of 16 Muslims from a bus in eastern Serbia in 1992.
Missing teen's family ups reward and criticizes Aruban investigation
ORANJESTAD, Aruba - The mother of an Alabama teen who disappeared in Aruba more than two months ago said Monday the investigation has been marred by ineptitude. She more than doubled the reward for help in solving the case to $250,000.
Beth Holloway Twitty said she believes investigators are on the wrong track, but she declined to say how she thinks authorities should be handling the case.
The family is also offering a $1-million reward for information leading to 18-year-old Natalee Holloway's safe return. Holloway Twitty wanted to publicize the rewards in neighboring Venezuela and Colombia, even though Aruban authorities and the FBI said they don't believe the teen left the island.
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