ANKARA: Turkish MPs voted against sending Deputy Prime Minister Tansu Ciller to the Supreme Court in two votes on corruption charges.
They decided not to im-peach Ciller for her alleged involvement in corruption at the Tedas electricity company, or on the more serious charge of illegally interfering with the sale of state-owned carmaker Tofas. Prime Minister Necmettin Erbakan's Islamist-led government would have been in deep trouble if Ciller, a coalition partner, had lost either vote.
Villages shelled
NABATIYEH: Israeli and allied militia forces shelled three south Lebanon villages yesterday, killing a civilian woman and wounding two other people. The shelling of civilian areas was an apparent breach of a ceasefire that ended a 17-day Israeli blitz on Lebanon last April.
Acropolis shut
ATHENS: Greek Culture Ministry employees are extending indefinitely a strike that has shut down the Athens Acropolis, Greece's most visited monument, for over a week.
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