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Deutsche Welle English Service News 03. 03. 2003, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: More Missiles Destroyed as Iraq Complies with U.N. Accompanied by approval from Russia and Germany, Iraq continued to destroy its ballistic missiles on Sunday. France's foreign minister suggested his country may veto a second resolution. 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_790256_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Baghdad plans to submit report on chemical, biological weapons A UN spokesman has said that Iraq will submit a new report on the fate of its biolgical and chemical weapons' stockpiles within a week. This would include details of the stocks of VX nerve gas and anthrax Baghdad claims it destroyed 11 years ago. Iraq has over the weekend destroyed 10 of its estimated 100 banned al Samoud 2 missiles, under UN supervision. Six more were destroyed today. The United States and Britain have dismissed the latest Iraqi moves and accused Baghdad of further lies and deception. Russia offers to send military monitors to Iraq Russia announced on Monday that it was ready to send military personnel to Iraq to take part in UN weapons inspections in a bid to stave off the threat of US-led military action against Baghdad. The Russian announcement came after Chinese state media said on Monday that Beijing was willing to offer personnel and technical support to the UN inspectors searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. China and Russia, both permanent members of the UN Security Council,with the power to veto resolutions are seeking to avert a US invasion of Iraq and extending the work of UN weapons inspectors. At least 8 killed as Israeli forces storm Gaza refugee camp Israeli troops killed at least eight Palestinians on Monday and injured over 35,in a gunbattle, while storming the Gaza Strip Bureij refugee camp, where they seized a 67-year-old founder of the militant Islamic group Hamas. Palestinian hospital officials said a 33-year-old pregnant woman was killed by falling debris, when the army blew up a house and gunfire killed a 13-year-old boy. Another three houses were also demolished by Israeli troops.The Palestinian Authority have accused Israel of stepping up military attacks on the Gaza Strip, while world attention is focused on a possible U.S.-led war on Iraq.The Israelis have since withdrawn from the Gaza refugee camp. North Korea to study EU proposal on talks North Korea has agreed to look at a proposal by the European parliament to hold seven-party talks to try to resolve its nuclear crisis, Japan's Kyodo news agency reported on Monday.The seven parties named were Japan, the United States, the European Union, Russia, China and North and South Korea. Pyongyang's number two leader, Kim Young-nam is reported to have said that he would study the idea. North Korea had insisted that the crisis over its nuclear weapons programme, which has been simmering since last October, should be resolved through direct talks with the United States. Washington has refused.In January, North Korea expelled nuclear inspectors and withdrew from the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. OSCE report condemns human rights abuses in Turkmenistan Torture, mass arrests and reprisals against suspects' families are widespread in Turkmenistan , since an alleged attack on its president, according to a report to Europe's largest human rights organisation. The draft report for the 55-nation Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe or OSCE said Turkmen authorities responded to an attack on their president-for-life last November 25th by detaining and torturing relatives of suspects, televising forced confessions and staging show trials. Human rights groups and OSCE monitors have criticised Turkmenistan before, but the 58-page OSCE report is the highest-level condemnation of abuses in the Central Asian state yet. It said that in the first few days after the reported attack, several hundred people were arrested and more than 100 charged with various offences, including relatives of suspects. More than 80 feared dead in Nigerian boat accident More than 80 people are reported missing two days after a boat sank crossing the Niger River in northern Nigeria, a state spokesman said. Witnesses told local radio that the boat was overloaded with over 100 passengers, goods and livestock crossing west Africa's largest river near the village of Besse, 400 kilometres northwest of the state capital Abuja. Over 40 killed in communal clashes At least 44 people, including women and children, have been killed in communal clashes in Nigeria over the weekend. A police spokesman said the fighting between farmers and nomads broke out when cattle farmers attacked the village of Dumne in Adamawa State. Seven policemen were among those killed. Two Nigerian dailies said as many as 100 people may have been killed. Nomads regularly clash with Nigerian farmers over land claims. Police said the latest outbreak of fighting was the bloodiest in recent months. Brussels not worried by Polish coalition troubles The European Commission said Monday it is not worried by the split of the governing coalition in Poland, the biggest EU candidate, saying it should not harm its aim of entry next year. The political problems in Warsaw should also not have an impact on a referendum on EU entry in three months' time, a spokesman for the EU executive said. Poland's center-left government coalition split apart Saturday after one the ruling parties opposed a key measure on preparing for EU entry only three months before the June 8 referendum on EU entry. The government is currently in full swing in the campaign to convince Poles to vote for joining the EU in the referendum. British, Irish PM aim to revive Northern Ireland peace process British Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Irish counterpart Bertie Ahern began on Monday intensive talks to get the Northern Ireland peace process rolling again, five months after it derailed. They were meeting both unionists and republicans at Hillsborough Castle in Ulster in a marathon effort to get power-sharing institutions up and working again before the proposed May 1st elections for a new Northern Ireland Assembly. Both London and Dublin will present the two sides with a blueprint for getting the power-sharing executive operating again. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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