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Deutsche Welle English Service News 20th April, 2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Prison for Illegal German Donors The German Parliament has approved legislation to make political party funding more transparent after a string of embarrassing kickback scandals. But critics say the law doesn't go far enough. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_502043_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Israel accepts U.N.probe of Jenin Israel pledged today to cooperate with a U.N. mission to probe its massive military assault on the Jenin refugee camp and said it had nothing to hide in the face of Palestinian accusations of a massacre. Palestinians said they hoped the U.N. Security Council's unanimous decision on Friday to send a fact-finding team to the camp could lead to an international criminal trial of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other senior figures. Meanwhile, Israel has rejected an offer from Palestinian leader Arafat to try the suspected killers of Israeli cabinet minister Zeevi in a Palestinian court. President Bush said on Thursday that Zeevi's suspected assassinsshould be brought to justice but did not say where. At least 1,287 Palestinians and 452 Israelis have died since a Palestinian revolt against occupation erupted 18 months ago. Britain warns former Afghan king of death plot The British military warned on Saturday that Afghanistan's newly returned former king, Mohammad Zahir Shah, was under threat of assassination from killers posing as journalists. A British Royal Marines spokesman spoke to reporters at Bagram air base just outside Kabul, where Zahir Shah returned from 29 years exile in Italy on Thursday. Last year, the legendary Northern Alliance leader Ahmed Shah Masood was killed when two Arabs exploded a bomb hidden in a television camera they were using to interview the leader. He died just two days before the September 11th attacks on the United States, which intelligence reports say could have been part of the same plot by Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. Peace talks on Congo war collapse The collapse of peace talks to end Africa's biggest war in the Democratic Republic of Congo could doom the former Zaire to prolonged conflict or even partition, analysts warned on Saturday.They said the crisis could possibly lead to more direct fighting between neighbours Rwanda and Uganda, who each support rival rebel factions in Africa's third largest country. Talks ended in failure late on Friday in South Africa, after the government and the biggest rebel group,the Rwandan-backed Congolese Rally for Democracy, refused to yield on key issues. These were the role of President Kabila in a transitional government ahead of pluralist elections and the role of the rebels in a future government, as well as defence-related matters. Algerian rebels kill seven in latest attack Islamic rebels have killed seven family members and wounded four others in western Algeria, the official Algerian news agency APS reported on Saturday. It said the killing took place in Hai Maarouf village, 160 km west of the capital Algiers.The father of the family was a pro-government militiaman. Thousands of soldiers and militiamen loyal to the government have been killed in ambushes and gun battles with rebels since 1992, when the authorities scrapped a parliamentary election that radical Islamists were poised to win. More than 150,000 civilians have been killed since. Tunesia Says Explosion was an Attack Tunesia has now said it believes the April 11th explosion of a delivery truck on the island of Djerba was a terrorist attack. Tunesian Foreign Minister Yahia said that he believed an international terrorist group was responsible for the powerful detonation at the historic Synagogue on the popular vacation island. The Tunesian government originally called the explosion an accident, in which 16 people, including several Germans were killed. German Interior Minister Otto Schily said in an interview, however, that he did not believe Germans were specifically targeted in the attack. Yugoslav Army chief will surrender to The Hague next week Retired general Dragoljub Ojdanic, who commanded Yugoslav Army forces during their 1998-99 Kosovo campaign, will go to The Hague sometime next week to face UN war crimes charges, his lawyer said in Belgrade on Saturday. His voluntary surrender would mark the first success for the new Yugoslav law passed on April 11th, requiring citizens indicted for war crimes to surrender to the United Nations court in the Netherlands. A list of 23 indictees was published by the Yugoslav government last week. Oman bus crash kills 46 An Omani construction firm blamed mechanical failure on Saturday for a bus crash that killed 46 of its employees and left one in critical condition. The bus with 55 people on board skidded off a mountain road. Most of the passengers were from the Indian subcontinent, including the Indian driver, who was killed. Police have said they believed high speed was the cause of the accident in southern Oman near Dhofar province. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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