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Deutsche Welle English Service News 26-09-2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Meetings Planned to Ease German-US Tensions No more basking in the comforting glow of re-election. Germany's Chancellor and foreign minister are eager to get relations with the United States back on track. 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_644104_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bush warns Iraq while Putin says political solution must be sought US President George W. Bush has said that he was close to agreement with Congress on a resolution on using force against Iraq. Following talks with the leaders of both parties in Congress, Bush said all were united in their determination to confront an urgent threat to America. U.S. demands for tough, new U.N. Security Council action against Iraq suffered a serious blow when Russian President Vladimir Putin called for a political solution to the crisis through existing U.N. resolutions. The United States and Britain are pushing for a new U.N. resolution which would include tough language spelling out that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein would face serious consequences if he failed to allow weapons inspectors to proceed with their work unhindered. Iraq meanwhile said U.S. warplanes had raided Basra civilian airport and damaged its radar system, in the latest attack by Western jets enforcing no-fly zones over Iraq. The United States confirmed it has attacked the airport, saying it had targeted a military radar there. Germany and US to boost cooperation in war on terror German Interior Minister Otto Schily and FBI Director Robert Mueller have underscored their strong cooperation in the US-declared war on terror despite recent friction between Berlin and Washington. German police have meanwhile gone to the United States to help in the prosecution of a September 11 suspect who lived in Germany for years before the attacks. Ramzi Bin al-Shaibah, the former roommate of suspected ringleader Mohamed Atta, was arrested in Pakistan this month and is now in U.S. custody. Germany has played a key role in the U.S.-led war on terrorism since it emerged that Atta and two of the other hijackers had lived in the city of Hamburg. But because Germany is against capital punishment, it is officially opposed to handing over information or extraditing suspects to the United States, where they could face the death penalty. Hamas vows more suicide attacks after two members died The Palestinian Islamic militant group Hamas has said two of its members were killed in an Israeli missile strike in Gaza City and has vowed to step up suicide bombings inside Israel to avenge the attack. The air strike occurred as the Israeli government defended its week-long siege of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's headquarters against world criticism, saying it was preventing an increase in Palestinian violence planned in anticipation of a U.S. campaign against Baghdad. In other violence, a Palestinian was shot dead trying to infiltrate a Jewish settlement in Gaza and a wanted Islamic militant was killed in an Israeli special-forces raid on his West Bank cave hideout in which an army lieutenant also died. Milosevic back on trial Slobodan Milosevic has gone back on trial on charges of genocide, murder and torture during the wars in Bosnia and Croatia. Alleging Europe's worst human rights violations since World War Two, prosecutors outlined 61 charges against the ex-Yugoslav president. Milosevic argued that Serbs simply defended themselves in the Bosnian and Croatian conflicts and were themselves genocide victims as Western powers engineered the breakup of Yugoslavia. Bosnian protesters outside the court demanded new efforts to arrest Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic, key Bosnian Serb leaders also accused of war crimes. This is the second phase of the trial against Mr Milosevic, who refuses to recognise the tribunal but has nonetheless conducted his own forceful defence. An estimated 200,000 people died during the Bosnian war, which ended in 1995 after three and a half years. Hindu temple raid fuels Indian anger with Pakistan Several thousand Hindu hardliners have joined an anti-Pakistan protest after a massacre in an Indian temple by Muslim gunmen suspected of links to Islamabad. But there were no signs of Hindu-Muslim clashes as anger about the temple raid turned against Islamic Pakistan rather than mostly Hindu India's minority Muslim population. Pakistan, which has called the Indian allegations ridiculous, came close to war with India in June and the two countries have a million men mobilised on their border in a standoff over Islamabad's alleged support of Islamic militants. India had put some 3,000 troops on standby to prevent communal violence in the western state of Gujarat after Tuesday's attack in state capital Gandhinagar in which 28 worshippers died. US to send envoy to North Korea The US government has said it will send an envoy to North Korea soon, in an apparent attempt to re-open dialogue deadlocked for almost two years. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer said US President George W Bush had informed South Korean President Kim Dae-jung of the decision. There are no indications as to whether North Korea has accepted the offer, but the Japanese prime minister reported after his meeting with the reclusive state's leader last week, that Kim Jong-il said he was ready for talks with Washington. Substantive US-North Korean dialogue has been stalled since the end of the Clinton administration. Relations markedly worsened in January when President Bush branded North Korea part of an "axis of evil". Two day ceasefire agreed to allow foreigners leave Ivory Coast Rebel soldiers in Ivory Coast agreed a 48-hour ceasefire on Thursday to allow French troops to get hundreds of foreigners out of a city where they are trapped by a bloody military uprising. Nigeria and Ghana put soldiers on standby and agreed to send warplanes as key West African neighbours rallied to help Ivory Coast put down a week-long rebellion that has increasingly taken on the dimensions of a civil war. Former colonial power France and the United States have both sent troops to help get their citizens to safety in the capital Yamoussoukro and main city of Abidjan. Rebel troops launched pre-dawn attacks in three key Ivorian cities a week ago. While loyalists dislodged them from the main city of Abidjan, they have kept control of the central town of Bouake, and Korhogo further north. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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