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Deutsche Welle English Service News March 11th, 2003, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Britain Offers New Plan on Threatening Iraq Faced with two veto threats, British and U.S. diplomats are working to win support for a revised resolution on Iraq in the U.N. Security Council. But Russia remains firm in its opposition. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_803794_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Vote on Iraq delayed A UN Security Council vote on Iraq has been delayed until later this week. Efforts by Britain and the United States to give Iraq six more days to disarm or face an attack have failed to draw widespread backing. Both France and Russia said they would block such a deadline. Other members of the 15-nation Security Council have suggested giving Iraq a further month or more to comply. From London, British Prime Minister Tony Blair said the split over Iraq sends the wrong message to Saddam Hussein about disarming. Meanwhile, Guinea and Cameroon have said they would abstain from a vote in the UN Security Council on a second Iraq resolution. French Foreign Minister Dominique de Villepan was in both countries to persuade them in France's direction. At the same time, Britain's junior foreign minister was in Africa lobbying support for a second resolution on Iraq. "Dirty bomb" risk remains, says ElBaradei; Iran is urged to be "transparent" The head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency, Mohammed ElBaradei, has warned that radioactive materials continue to be lost or stolen and could be used by terrorists in "dirty bombs". The IAEA chief told a conference in Vienna that safeguards must be improved. Meanwhile in another development, ElBaradei also said on Tuesday that Iran must accept more inspections of its nuclear sites. ElBaradei said he had stessed to the Iranian authorities the need to be fully transparent. The US has accused Iran of being apart of a so-called "axis of evil" seeking to build nuclear weapons. Violence flares in West Bank as Palestinian officials present bill for new prime minister post Clashes between Israeli troops and Palestinian gunmen took place in the divided West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday. The violence came as Palestinian lawmakers presented a bill for ratification, creating the post of prime minister to President Yasser Arafat. Meanwhile, in the Gaza Strip, Israeli troops found the bodies of two Palestinians shot and killed overnight by soldiers who suspected they were laying landmines near the Jewish settlement of Kfar Darom. However, Palestinian witnesses said the two were killed in an exchange of fire with troops. ICC judges sworn in at ceremony In the Hague, 18 judges have been have been sworn-in at the world's first permanent war crimes court. The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to try the 21st century's worst crimes has been hailed as the biggest legal milestone since the Nuremberg trials after World War II. Several countries, including the US, China, Israel and Iraq refuse, however, to recognise the court's legal jurisdiction. Iraqi doctor suspected of helping al-Qaeda freed after five months detention An Iraqi doctor arrested five months ago on suspicion of treating al-Qaeda extremists has been released. Shaukat Nafay was taken from his home in Pakistan by US and Pakistani agents in a pre-dawn raid on October 15. Authorities believed he had treated al-Qaeda fighters, hundreds of whom fled across the border into Pakistan from Afghanistan in late 2001. Nafay's family refused to allow reporters inside the house to meet him after his release, saying they were under "tremendous pressure" not to talk to the media about his detention. Seven charged in Sierra Leone A special UN war crimes court in Sierra Leone said it had approved charges against seven people, including a jailed rebel leader, for their roles in a decade-long war which ended last year. The charges cited included murder, sexual slavery and conscription of children. The perpetrators also disfigured civilians by hacking off their limbs. Among the seven accused, two are still at large. Sierra Leone's war claimed at least 100,000 lives before UN peacekeepers disarmed 47,000 fighters. Last week, UN special envoy Olara Otunnu said the situation in Sierra Leone appeared to be improving, with school children better fed, trade recovering, and displaced people returning to their homes. Cricket's Lee wins match for Australia At the Cricket World Cup in South Africa, Brett Lee took four wickets from nine deliveries to lead Australia to a 96-run victory over New Zealand in their World Cup Super Six match on Tuesday. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. News and background reports from the fields of current affairs, culture, business and science. And of course the DW website also has information about DW-RADIO and DW-TV programmes: topics, broadcast times and frequencies. 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