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Deutsche Welle English Service News April 27th, 2001, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Germany Mourns After Friday's school massacre in the eastern German city of Erfurt, a time of soul searching has begun. The Gutenberg High School shooting left 17 people dead. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_507765_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Germany in shock as 17 die in school shooting German police said that 19-year-old pupil Robert Steinhaeuser responsible for the country's worst post-war mass killing was a registered gun club member. The recently expelled young man had returned to his local school with a pump-action shotgun and a handgun and killed 13 teachers, two pupils, a police officer and then himself. Police said that Mr. Steinhaeuser, dressed in black and masked had access to enough ammunition to kill hundreds of people. His rampage was ended when a teacher grabbed and unmasked him and pushed him into a room, locking the door. It was then that he took his own life. Mr. Steinhaeuser had to repeat his final year, but was expelled before the school-leaving examination, required for university studies, because he forged absentee excuse notes. Flags through-out Germany are flying at half-mast this weekend. Gunmen kill 5 in Jewish settlement after UN Middle East mission is delayed Five people have been killed when gunmen attacked an Israeli settlement in the West Bank in the first such assault since Israel launched a four-week-old military sweep through Palestinian-ruled cities. The attack on Adora, northwest of the divided city of Hebron, came a day after U.S. President George W. Bush again insisted Israel immediately end its military offensive, after another Israeli raid defied his earlier demands. In another development the United Nations has agreed to delay a mission to the West Bank Palestinian refugee camp of Jenin, where it will now arrive on Sunday. U.N. Secretary- General Kofi Annan agreed to the delay at the request of Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, who said it would give the Israeli cabinet time to discuss the mission before its arrival. Afghan warlord kill at least 25 people An Afghan warlord rained hundreds of rockets on the main east Afghan city of Gardez on Saturday killing at least 25 people in the biggest outbreak of fighting between rival Afghan forces for several months. Governor Taj Mohammad Wardak of Paktia province, scene of the biggest U.S.-led ground battle of the Afghan war last month, blamed the attack on former governor Khan Zadran, who was ousted from power in February. He said the former governor was trying to take over Gardez. The fighting broke out on the day U.S. Defense Secretary Rumsfeld visited Kabul and several hours after the Afghan capital's airport was hit by several rockets. There were no casualties in the airport attack. Madagascar governors threaten to split the island Five of Madagascar's six governors loyal to embattled Madagascan President Ratsiraka said on Saturday they would set up an independent state if a recount of disputed December polls declared rival Marc Ravalomanana the winner. The island off southeast Africa has been in political crisis since the elections, which Ravalomanana, the popular mayor of the capital, says he won. Mr. Ratsiraka denies that the election was rigged and says neither man won. The two men, who both now claim to be president, agreed in Dakar earlier this month to allow a recount of the polls to determine the victor. If neither was shown to have a majority, a referendum would be held to let the people decide. The High Constitutional Court began re-analysing the votes last week and says it will announce the results on Monday. Pakistan Supreme Court upholds Musharraf's referendum A nine member bench of the Pakistan Supreme Court Saturday unanimously rejected a host of petitions questioning the legality of the referendum being held on April 30th to extend President Pervez Musharraf's term by five years. The Court held that the referendum is legal. The referendum has been termed as unconstitutional and illegal by the mainstream political and religious parties. North Korean asylum seekers leave China Three North Koreans who entered Western embassy compounds in Beijing in the latest in a series of asylum bids have left China. A North Korean man climbed over a wall into the German Embassy grounds on Thursday. The next day, two North Koreans entered the U.S. Embassy compound seeking asylum. Diplomatic sources said the three may be on their way to South Korea via Manila. The Philippine government said earlier in the day it would allow a man who sought asylum in the German Embassy on Thursday to pass through. China considers people fleeing impoverished communist North Korea to be economic migrants and not refugees and sends many of them back. It has offered cash rewards for people who report them and fines those who harbour them. Russian space craft docks with ISS A Russian Soyuz craft carrying space tourist Mark Shuttleworth, Africa's first astronaut, has successfully docked with the International Space Station. South African Shuttleworth, the second man to pay Moscow a reported 20 million dollars for a trip to space, blasted off from Russia's Baikonur base in Kazakhstan on Thursday, along with Russian veteran Yuri Gidzenko and Italian Roberto Vittori. Mr.Shuttleworth, a 28-year-old Internet millionaire, will spend eight days aboard the space station, conducting experiments, before returning to earth on May 5th. 60-year-old American Dennis Tito, the first amateur to pay his way into orbit, travelled to the 16-nation ISS last April. Art collector and industrial magnate Thyssen dies German-Hungarian industrial magnate Baron Hans Heinrich von Thyssen-Bornemisza, whose family amassed one of the world's finest private art collections, has died in Spain of heart problems at the age of 81. Baron Thyssen's built up a priceless art collection of some 1,500 mainly European works, after inheriting around 500 pieces from his father. It is expected that the funeral will take place in Germany. -------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information please turn to our internet website at http://dw-world.de/english Here you'll find out what's happening in Germany, Europe and the rest of the world. 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