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Deutsche Welle English Service News April 28th, 2001, 16:00 UTC ------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: "Shoot me, but Look me in the Face!" A courageous teacher helped end Friday's shooting at a school in Erfurt, Germany. History teacher Rainer Heise confronted the masked gunman, a 19-year-old former student, and locked him in a classroom. 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_508184_1_A,00.html ------------------------------------------------------------------- U.N. Fact-Finding Team Mission Delayed; U.S. Proposal Accepted by Israelis Israeli cabinet members have decided that the time was "not yet right" for recieveing a U.N. fact-finding team in the region. The team was waiting in Geneva for the green light in order to probe the devastation of the Jenin refugee camp. But political sources said Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres informed the group by telephone that sending a fact-finding team to Jenin would be pointless. A Palestinian security chief called the cabinet decision a retraction in the Israeli position. Earlier, Peres had said the main stumbling block of the mission was the terms of reference to be used by the U.N. team. The Palestinians claimed the Israelis carried out a massacre in Jenin, killing possibly hundreds of civilians during a three-week long offensive there. On another front, Israeli political sources said the Sharon administration had approved a proposal by U.S. President George W. Bush which could lead to the end of the siege at Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. In a telephone call to Sharon, Bush suggested that U.S. or British guards act as jailers inside of a Palestinian prison for the killers of an Israeli government member. Israeli sources said on Sunday the cabinet had voted in favour of Bush's proposal. The U.S. president has also invited Sharon to Washington next week for talks. Teacher's Story Gives Comfort to a Mourning Country In Germany, the story of the 60-year-old art and history teacher who stopped the gun-wielding teenager in a highschool shooting brought some comfort to a stunned nation on Sunday. Rainer Heise was hailed as a hero for confronting the 19-year-old student with kind words and then locking him into a classroom after 16 people had already been shot. But many Germans continued to wonder how a disgruntled teenager could have legally obtained the weapons and ammunition used to murder the teachers, two pupils and a policeman. The unprecedented highschool shooting has prompted calls for stricter gun legislation in Germany as well as tighter controls on violent computer and video games. Meanwhile, police in Erfurt, where the tragedy took place, have concluded that the teenager acted alone in the shooting spree. Students at the highschool had earlier reported seeing a second assailant at the scene. Egyptian Man Linked to Terrorist Group Sentenced to Hard Labor A high court in Egypt has sentenced a man with links to the al Qaeda network to 10 years in jail with hard labour. Egypt's official Middle East News Agency (MENA) reported that Mohamed Hassan el-Sayyed Suleiman had very close contact to a top aide of Osama bin Laden. The news agency did not, however, specify the crimes for which Suleiman was convicted. Suleiman's charges had included belonging to an illegal group aiming to overthrow the government as well as forging passports. Scores Killed in Ethnic Clashes in Congo Ugandan army officials have said scores of people have been killed in ethnic clashes between the Hema and Lendu tribes in northeast Congo over the past 10 days. A spokesman for the Hema community said that 446 members had been massacred on April 18 in two villages. Another attack reportedly took place on Wednesday night in a village on the shores of Lake Albert, leaving hundreds dead and floating in the water. There was no independent confirmation of the claims. Fighting between the Lendu and Hema communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo has killed thousands of people in recent years. The clashes stem from conflicts over land and natural resources. South and North Koreans in emotional family reunions Elderly North and South Koreans have been reunited with long-lost kin after 50 years of separation across Korea's Cold War divide. The reunions in North Korea, after five decades without any contact, follow an agreement the two Koreas struck this month to resume reconciliation projects. The two Koreas have no postal, telephone nor travel links and remain technically at war due to a conflict which ended in an armed truce with no formal treaty. Germany's Gas Market to be Liberalized Consumers in Germany will soon be able to freely decide which company will be their gas energy provider. After tough negociations, representatives from Germany's gas sector agreed on liberalizing the market for private customers. The decision has been welcomed by German parliament. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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