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27st January, 2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Woman and attacker killed in yet another Jerusalem bombing In yet another suicide attack in the centre of Jerusalem, the attacker and an Israeli woman were killed on Sunday. At least 40 other people were hurt. The Palestinian Authority condemned the attack. The Israeli government blamed it on the Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat. It was the third suicide attack in six days. On Friday 15 people were injured, some gravely. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,4789_W_419844,00.html ----------------------------- Palestinians Back Arafat Despite Bush's Condemnation Thousands of Palestinians have protested in the autonomy areas in support of Arafat after U.S. President George Bush slated his restraint of militants as "very disappointing". In Jerusalem and Tel Aviv 1,000 Israelis protested against the policies of prime minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of leading the region into catastrophe. High Russian interior ministry officials killed in copter crash High officials of the Russian interior ministry are reported among 11 people killed in a helicopter crash in the rebel republic of Chechnya. Police say the aircraft exploded in mid-air and the Interfax news agency says there are indications that Chechen separatists shot it down. Powell Wants Prisoner of War Status for Guantanamo Prisoners The "Washington Times" newspaper claims that US Secretary of State Colin Powell has asked President George W. Bush to reconsider his decision not to classify al Qaeda and Taliban fighters held in Cuba as prisoners of war. The 158 detainees are currently classified "illegal combatants," making them ineligible for certain rights under the Geneva Conventions. The United States has been accused by human rights groups and some politicians at home and abroad of treating the prisoners inhumanely. Washington has denied the allegations. US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is to visit the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba on Sunday. Suspect from Bremen? The German news magazine "Der Spiegel" says a Taliban suspect caught by the USA in Afghanistan is a 19-year-old Turkish man born and educated in the German city of Bremen. Spiegel said he was due to be flown to Guantanamo. Bremen's prosecutions office said it was investigating a 19-year-old who had left Germany last October bound for Pakistan. Taliban Supporters Demonstrate in Pakistan About 2,000 supporters of Afghanistan's ousted Taliban demonstrated in the Pakistani town of Peshawar on Sunday, protesting at a crackdown on radical Islamic groups in the country. They also denounced US treatment of prisoners from the Afghan war. The protest was a response to the series of measures introduced by Pakistan's military ruler General Musharraf on January 12 to curb increasing militancy. Leaders of the rally said they had the right to wage jihad, or holy war, and warned Musharraf they could force him from power at any time. Zimbabwe's High Court Rules in Favour of Opposition Zimbabwe's High Court has ordered the government to allow people to vote in any constituency in the presidential election in March. An opposition party spokesman said the ruling would allow thousands of his party's supporters who had been displaced by political violence to vote in the poll on March 9 and 10. The court's decision comes as the Commonwealth, the European Union, the United States and human rights groups put mounting pressure on President Robert Mugabe's government to ensure free and fair elections. Strike Called in Madagascar Madagascar's opposition has rejected a constitutional court ruling that December's presidential elections should proceed to a run-off poll and called instead for a public strike on Monday. Opposition candidate Marc Ravalomanana, who's also the mayor of the capital Antananarivo, claimed the count had been tampered with. On Friday the court found that Ravalomanana had got 46.2 percent and President Didier Ratsiraka 40.9 percent - both short of an absolute majority, requiring a run-off within 30 days. In renewed protests on Saturday, 80,000 opposition supporters turned out in Antananarivo. Refugee protests widening in Australia Protests by refugees imprisoned in razor-wire camps are widening in Australia. People in four camps in remote places are on hunger strike to protest against the slow processing of their asylum applications. Hundreds of demonstrators have gathered outside the camps to show solidarity with the prisoners, who include infant children. China calls EU import ban unacceptable China has criticised as unacceptable a European Union import ban on Chinese foodstuffs such as shrimps, poultry, honey and rabbit meat. The spokeswoman of the foreign trade ministry in Beijing, Gao Yan, warned in the official news agency of severe damage to trade between China and the EU and demanded negotiations to solve the problem. The reason for the ban were findings made by an EU delegation in China in November of the use of banned drugs in raising the animals. German Warships in Djibouti Four more German warships have arrived in Djibouti, joining the frigate 'Bayern' in the largest-ever operation in the history of the German navy. Further vessels and helicopters are to follow. 1800 German marines are involved in the operation, which is aimed at controlling and securing sea routes in the region as part of the US-led war on terrorism. Rail car production in east Germany saved Moves to close railway vehicle factories in east Germany and destroy more than a thousand jobs seem to have been averted after intervention by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. Schroeder met with Laurent Beaudoin, head of the Canadian Bombardier company which owns the two rolling stock works in east Germany. He's pledged to keep the plant at Ammendorf near Halle in Saxony-Anhalt state operating. Bombardier is the world's biggest producer of rail vehicles. Schily denies he offered to resign A spokesman for the German interior minister, Otto Schily, has denied reports that Schily offered to resign because his officials endangered a court action to have the neo-Nazi NPD party banned. The 'Bild am Sonntag' newspaper reported that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder refused to accept Schily's resignation. Schily has insisted that the government application to the Constitutional Court to ban the NPD remains intact despite a disclosure about a second informant. Earlier in the week, Schily apologised to parliament over worries that the court might dismiss testimony from another informant who had worked for Germany's domestic intelligence service in the 90s while an NPD official. Opposition leaders have accused Schily of not having control of his ministry and demanded explanations for the apparent slip-up. Germany Holds Day of Remembrance for Holocaust Victims Germany is holding a day of remembrance for victims of the holocaust on the 57th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. Commemorations are planned in several cities. The president of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Paul Spiegel, has warned against the increasing right-wing extremism in Germany, saying that xenophobia was a threat to all those wanting democracy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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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