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Tony Blair meets with Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, becoming the first British prime minister to meet with an IRA leader in seventy-six years.
22 Oct.
President Nelson Mandela of South Africa travels to Tripoli to mediate in Libya's dispute with the U.S. and British governments over extradition of two men suspected of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing.
8 Nov.
Chinese leaders attend the completion of the damming of the River Yangtse, one of the largest hydroelectric projects in the world. The dam created a four-hundred- mile-long mile long lake and resulted in the displacement of 1.2 million people.
9 Nov.
Russian and Chinese officials sign a declaration defining their joint 2,800-mile disputed border.
24 Nov.
Yamaichi Securities collapses with losses of 3.2 billion yen, the biggest financial failure in Japan since 1945.
4 Dec.
At a U.N. conference in Ottawa, Canada, delegates from 125 nations sign an agreement banning the use, production, transfer, and stockpiling of antipersonnel...
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