The downfall in this system began on August 17, 1998, when Russia defaulted on its ruble debt and domestic dollar debt.

Lara captained the West Indies from 1998 to 1999, when West Indies suffered their first whitewash at the hands of South Africa.

No major revamps happened from then until 1998, when Dennis ' baby sister Bea was born.

The French succeeded in helping it to quell the disturbances, and an African peacekeeping force ( MISAB ) occupied Bangui until 1998 when they were relieved by a United Nations peacekeeping mission ( MINURCA ).

EU accession negotiations started on 31 March 1998, and concluded when Cyprus joined the organization as a full member in 2004.

The administration of President Andrés Pastrana Arango, when it took office on 7 August 1998, faced an economy in crisis, with the difficult internal security situation and global economic turbulence additionally inhibiting confidence.

Another example occurs in the 1998 film Waking Ned, when two of the film's characters, Jackie and Michael, are walking through a storm towards Ned's house.

Grande Comore had experienced troubles of its own in the late 1990s, when President Taki died on November 6, 1998.

In 1998, the Eritrean Church gained its autocephelacy from the Coptic Orthodox Church when its first Patriarch was enthroned by Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria.

Although the concept of consilience in Whewell's sense was widely discussed by philosophers of science, the term was unfamiliar to the broader public until the end of the 20th century, when it was revived in Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge, a 1998 book by the humanist biologist Edward Osborne Wilson, as an attempt to bridge the culture gap between the sciences and the humanities that was the subject of C. P. Snow's The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution ( 1959 ).

It was wound up in 1998 when control of the Docklands area was handed back to the respective local authorities.

The parties deferred this issue, and finally a settlement was reached in 1998, when the jurors awarded Coppola $ 20 million as compensation for losing the film project, Pinocchio.

This ambiguity began in 1998 when people started to use the term “ open source software ” rather than “ free software .” People in the community of free software used these separate terms as a way to differentiate what they did.

Another exploit was in 1998 when Roberto Benigni won three oscars for his movie Life Is Beautiful ( La vita è bella ) ( Best Actor, Best Foreign Film, Best Music ).

Albanian Socialist Party Chairman Fatos Nano was elected Prime Minister, a post which he held until October 1998, when he resigned as a result of the tense situation created in the country after the assassination of Azem Hajdari, a prominent leader of the Democratic Party.

The Irish Government acknowledged this interpretation — although it did not acknowledge any legal obligations to persons in this larger diaspora — when Article 2 of the Constitution of Ireland was amended in 1998 to read " urthermore, the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage.

NTIA received more than 650 comments as of March 23, 1998, when the comment period closed.

Prime Minister Hashimoto headed a loose coalition of three parties until the July 1998 Upper House election, when the two smaller parties cut ties with the LDP.

* 1998 – James Byrd, Jr. of Texas is killed when white supremacists drag him behind a pickup truck along an asphalt pavement.

In 1998 she appeared in her first film-a six part documentary called " The Legend of Atlantis " by Elia The Prophet and it wasn't until 2010 when she landed roles in the documentaries, 3 Magic Words ( 2010 ) and " In the Beginning There Was Light "( 2010 )

The release of the 266 MHz version of this chip was not until the second quarter of 1998 when AMD was able to move to the 0. 25 micrometre manufacturing process.

Conditions remained tumultuous, including an August 1994 coup by Letsie III, until 1998 when the Lesotho Congress for Democracy ( LCD ) came to power in elections which were deemed fair by international observers.

Instead, he became one of the youngest winners of an Association of Tennis Professionals ( ATP ) tournament when, as an almost unknown youngster, he won the 1998 Next Generation Adelaide International, defeating Andre Agassi in the semifinals.

There was a brief exchange that occurred when the surviving members reunited in Aspen, Colorado, in 1998 for a show that was broadcast on HBO and has since become available on video.

Upon taking Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998, about 4, 000 civilians were executed by the Taliban and many more reported tortured.

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20-40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani.

Dostum was defeated by the Taliban in 1998 with the fall of Mazar-i-Sharif.

" Upon taking Mazar-i-Sharif in 1998, about 4, 000-6, 000 civilians were killed in an ethnic cleansing campaign by the Taliban and many more reported tortured.

In retaliation for this incident, the Taliban on August 8, 1998, returned and led a six-day killing frenzy of Hazaras, a report the Taliban denied at that time.

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20 – 40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani.

In 1998, Iran accused Pakistan of sending its air force to bomb Mazar-i-Sharif in support of Taliban forces and directly accused Pakistani troops for " war crimes at Bamiyan ".

After longstanding battles especially for the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif, Abdul Rashid Dostum and his Junbish forces were defeated by the Taliban and their allies in 1998.

Originally a Taliban idea endorsed by Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and accepted on behalf of the United Front ( formerly the Northern Alliance ) by President Burhanuddin Rabbani in early January 1998, the proposal took shape as a proposed commission of ulema, or religious scholars, to settle the Afghan conflict in the light of the shariah.

The Jaghalkani-i-Takhta Pul massacres took place near Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan in 1998, and involved hundreds of victims massacred by the Taliban.

He was forced to flee the country after his stronghold in the north was attacked by Taliban forces in 1998.

In 1998, Zardad fled to Britain using a false passport to avoid persecution under the ruling Taliban, and requested asylum.

Relations with the Taliban deteriorated further in 1998 after Taliban forces seized the Iranian consulate in Mazari Sharif and executed Iranian diplomats.

As a further example, the Taliban regime was also heavily criticised for the murder of Iranian diplomats in Afghanistan in 1998.

In January 1998, the Taliban, selecting CentGas over Argentinian competitor Bridas Corporation, signed an agreement that allowed the proposed project to proceed.

Following a series of changing allegiances and falling out with Malik, the Taliban withdrew from the area, but in 1998 a contingent of 8, 000 Taliban troops pressed through Faryab, seizing Abdul Rashid Dostum's headquarters in Sheberghan, in neighboring Jowzjan province.

He claims to have secretly negotiated with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar in 1998 in an attempt to have bin Laden extradited to Saudi Arabia, but the negotiations were unsuccessful.

After the 1989 Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, maintenance suffered, and eventually, in the course of combat between the Afghan Northern Alliance and the Taliban in 1997 – 1998, the tunnel's entrances and ventilation system were destroyed, so that it could only be crossed by foot in the dark.

On International Women's Day in 1998, as vice-president of environmental affairs, she made an impassioned speech condemning the horrific oppression of women by the Taliban Movement in Afghanistan.

There are unconfirmed reports that two native Afghan converts were hanged in 1998 by the Taliban.

A 1998 document by the U. S. State Department confirms that " 20 – 40 percent of Taliban soldiers are Pakistani ".