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Deutsche Welle English Service News September 20th 2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: German Minister Likens Bush's "Methods" to Hitler's The German Justice Minister has sparked outrage in the U.S. and at home with remarks likening George Bush's political methods over Iraq to those of Adolf Hitler. It's placed a further strain on fraying German-U.S. ties. 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_640449_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Inspectors could return to Iraq by mid-October The UN's top nuclear arms inspector, French physicist Jacques Baute, is ready to lead a team of inspectors back into Iraq to look for secret atomic weapons programmes. UN weapons inspectors and Iraq's top arms experts are due to meet in Vienna at the end of the month to work out the details of the inspectors' return. An advanced team could be sent to Iraq by October 15 if the Iraqi side is in agreement. Meanwhile, Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President George W. Bush on Friday that the priority in the Iraq crisis was to secure the fastest possible return to Baghdad of the arms inspectors. The conversation took place as Bush prepared to meet Russia's foreign and defence ministers at the White House with Iraq high on the agenda. Israeli siege destroys most of Palestinian leader's headquarters Israeli forces have conducted a major siege on Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's West Bank headquarters. Most of the buildings in the complex were destroyed except Arafat's private offices. Palestinian officials said the Palestinian leader was not hurt in the siege, but one of his bodyguards was killed by an Israeli sniper earlier on Friday. The military operation was meant to isolate the Arafat following two Palestinian suicide bombings in which six Israelis were killed. Israel said it had stormed Arafat's base also to search for 20 wanted militants who were inside. Twenty people did surrender, but an Israeli military source said not all were on the wanted list. Curfews have been re-imposed in major cities in the West Bank under increased security measures. German minister in hot water over Hitler remark Germany's Justice Minister has reassured the U.S. ambassador in Berlin that there was no basis of truth in reports that she had compared U.S. President George W. Bush to Hitler. A German newspaper had quoted Herta Daeubler-Gmelin as saying that Bush's campaign against Iraq was a tactic to divert attention from his domestic problems, a popular method she said Hitler had used. The alleged remark was condemned as "outrageous" by Bush's White House spokesman Ari Fleischer. A German government spokesman said Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder believed his justice minister when she said she did not make the comparison, but added that Schroeder had made clear that anyone who would make such comparisons did not belong in his cabinet. German poll says ruling party will win election A key opinion poll in Germany has predicted that Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats will win this weekend's general election. The final survey by the Allensbach institute put the SPD a half a percent ahead of the Christian Union alliance (CDU). Military police in Ivory Coast set fire to immigrants' home Paramilitary gendarmes in Ivory Coast set fire to homes in a district of Abidjan which houses many immigrants in the hunt for attackers blamed for a failed coup, according to residents there. Government officials said the attempted coup had been thwarted, but a confrontation between government troops and rebel soldiers in the city of Bouake remained tense. Millions of immigrant workers live in Ivory Coast. Most of them are from Burkina Faso, a country accused by Ivory Coast of serving as a base for dissident troops opposed to President Laurent Gbagbo. Slovakia votes in 2-day election Voting in Slovakia has gotten underway. Elections will take place over a two-day period in which voters will decide if ex-prime minister Vladimir Meciar is to return to power. Western diplomats have warned the 4.1 million voters that their country risks isolation if they once again choose Meciar, a 60-year-old small-town lawyer who took Slovakia to the brink of economic collapse and angered the international community during the mid-nineties. The U.S. and Europe condemned Meciar's policies at the time as corrupt and xenophobic. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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