Deutsche Welle English Service News Oktober, 10. 2002, 16:00 UTC
---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Small Businesses Mixed on EU Expansion The expected entry of 10 former Eastern bloc countries into the European Union in 2004 will bring both challenges and opportunities for Germany's small- and medium-size businesses. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1431_A_652831_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Bomber kills one in Israel An Israeli bus driver and a passenger pinned a Palestinian suicide bomber to the ground on Thursday after spotting his explosive belt, then fled as the man blew himself up, killing a woman and injuring 12 people. Witnesses said the attacker tried to board a bus packed with soldiers, but slipped and fell onto the sidewalk. The driver and a doctor got off the bus to help the man, but when they realised he was wearing a bomb belt, they held him down and shouted for people to clear the area. Violence also flared in the southern Gaza Strip, where Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian youths during a tank raid carried out, despite international condemnation of earlier Israeli strikes in which at least 14 civilians were killed. White House rejects Iraqi weapons site invitation The United States on Thursday flatly rejected an invitation from the head of Iraq's armament program to inspect two sites, where Washington suspects weapons of mass destruction are being developed. The two sites were mentioned in the dossier British Prime Minister Tony Blair recently released on Iraq's arsenal. The White House released a satellite photograph of of one site to bolster Mr. Bush's speech this week in which he threatened to disarm President Saddam by force,if necessary. German authorities arrest man connected to Sep 11 attacks German authorities have arrested a 29-year-old Moroccan national in connection with the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Kay Nehm, Germany's federal prosecutor said the man had a long term supportive relationship with several members of the Hamburg al-Qaeda terrorist cell. He is accused of providing logistical support to the terrorists and of having attended a training camp in Afghanistan in the summer of 2000. Three US Marines injured, one seriously, in wargames blast Just two days after US Marines were ambushed during a training exercise in Kuwait, 3 US marines were wounded on Thursday, one seriously, when an ordnance left behind from the 1991 Gulf War detonated. The explosion took place at a firing-range during the Eager Mace wargames in Kuwait. Four killed in Pakistan election violence Four people were killed and at least 42 wounded in clashes at several polling stations in Pakistan on Thursday during an election meant to return the country to civilian rule, government and medical officials said. Thursday's election is the first since General Pervez Musharraf seized power in a military coup in 1999. Police are guarding polling stations across Pakistan amid concerns about violence from extremist Islamic groups. First official results are expected late tonight. Indian Kashmir's long-ruling party swept out of power The long-ruling National Conference party in India's troubled Kashmir state has been swept out of power after losing more than half of its seats, according to election results released Thursday. The NC, which had 57 seats in the last election in 1996, this time secured only 28 seats. NC leader, India's junior foreign minister Omar Abdullah, who lost his bid for a seat in Ganderbal, north of the summer capital Srinagar has conceded defeat.Opposition parties or independents won 59 of the Kashmir assembly's 87 seats. Forty-four seats are necessary to form a majority. The election saw a 46 percent turnout, far greater than what Indian officials said they had expected. Analysts said voters came out in a show of anger against the NC despite the threat of attacks by Muslim rebels opposed to the polls. Blast at Philippine bus station kills eight Explosives detonated at a bus station in Kidapawan city in the southern Philippines, killed at least eight people and wounding 19 others. Police say the death toll, which included a six-year-old boy, could rise. Many of the wounded were in serious condition. No-one has claimed responsibility, but a regional army spokesman said communist and Moslem rebels were among the suspects. The killings in Kidapawan come a week after a powerful bomb wrecked a karaoke bar in southern Zamboanga City, killing three Filipino civilians and a U.S. soldier. Man shot in suburban Washington A sniper who has terrorized the Washington, DC area has apparently struck again. In the suburb of Manassas, Virginia a man was shot and killed at a petrol station by a single bullet. A police spokesman said that he could not confirm at present, whether the shooting was the work of the sniper that has killed 6 people and wounded two others. Forensic investigators have used ballistics tests to link six of the eight shootings. Imre Kertesz wins Nobel Literature Prize Hungarian novelist and Auschwitz survivor Imre Kertesz won the 2002 Nobel Literature Prize on Thursday for works the judges said brought home to ordinary readers the reality of life in Nazi death camps. 72-year-old Kertesz, who now lives and works in Berlin will also be awarded a 1 million dollar purse. As a Jew deported as a teenager by the Nazis to Auschwitz in 1944 and afterwards to the Buchenwald concentration camp, and then as a Hungarian writer living under communist rule in his country, Mr. Kertesz experienced directly some of the most acute suffering of the 20th century. Mr.Kertesz is the first Hungarian to win the Nobel literature prize, though Hungarians have won science Nobel awards. Lengthy terms for Chinese Protestants Five Chinese Protestants, whose death sentences were quashed on appeal earlier this week, have been jailed for lengthy terms at a brief re-trial by a court at Jingmen in central China. The founder of the unauthorized South China Church, Gong Shengliang, and two other members, got life imprisonment, according to a Hong Kong-based civil rights centre. In recent years, China has cracked down heavily on the Falun Gong movement, but human rights groups say Christians also face frequent prosecution. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. You can even listen to all programmes as audio-on-demand. Serbian News Network - SNN [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.antic.org/
