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Monday, November 29,1999
Islamist Opposition Expected To Lose In Malaysian Elections Today
Malaysians go to the polls on Monday with both the ruling National Front (NF) coalition and the opposition Alternative Front (AF) confident of doing well in the elections - although each has its own definition of "doing well." The NF of Mahathir Mohamad, the aging prime minister, is expected to retain power but the four-party opposition coalition hope to break the ruling party's historic two-thirds majority in the most hotly contested - and nastiest - general election in three decades.
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Russia Wants Chechnya Off Muslim Agenda
Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov tried, during his recent trip to Iran, to convince the country to lobby for the removal of any references to Chechnya in the Organization of Islamic Conference's meeting of Information Ministers that will be held in Tehran this Monday. Russia does not want to hear any condemnation of its activities, or any sympathy for the Chechens. According to Iranian foreign minister officials, Ivanov explicitly asked that the concluding statement of the ministers' meeting not contain any condemnation of the Russian war on Chechnya.

The third annual convention held by the Islamic Association for Palestine came to a close on Saturday. The nearly 2,000 attendees of the convention had been attending several lectures since Thursday. The speakers kept up the theme of the convention, "A Century of Empowerment", by putting emphasis on the role that the Muslims must play in order to achieve justice for themselves, for Palestine, and for Muslims worldwide.


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