Deutsche Welle English Service News 15.10.2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: German Agents to Investigate Bali Bombing With the death toll rising, the number of European casualties in the Bali terrorist attack has prompted a call for action from many European leaders. Germany has already said that it will conduct its own investigation into the blast. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://lessing/english/current_affairs/currentaffairs1.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Traces of explosives found in Bali Three days after the Bali bombing, Indonesian police say they have found traces of C4 plastic explosive and are holding two Indonesians for further questioning. One reportedly saw a man place a plastic bag outside a bar before multiple blasts killed more than 180 people on Saturday night. Young Australian tourists account for the largest single group, with 22 confirmed dead, and 160 still missing. Investigators from the USA and Australia are being joined by forensic teams from Japan, Britain and Germany. Many of the 300 wounded are being treated in Australia. Specialist doctor Peter Haertsch said burns were severe. Although no one has claimed responsibility, Indonesian, Australian and U.S. leaders have alleged links between Jemaah Islamiah, a militant Indonesian group, and al Qaeda, which attacked the USA last year. Indonesia's most prominent militant Islamist group, Laskar Jihad, which two years ago fought in the Moluccas, said it has disbanded. U.N. condemns Bali bombings The United Nations Security Council has condemned in "strongest terms" the terror bombings on Bali and other terrorist attacks, describing them as threats to international peace and security. In a unanimous resolution adopted at a special session, the 15-member Council called the bombing in Bali an "act of international terrorism". It asked all countries to help Indonesia bring the "perpetrators, organizers and sponsors of the terrorist attack" to justice. Sniper kills nineth victim U.S. police have linked the latest shooting of a shopper to the mystery sniper who's terrorised the Washington DC region, raising the toll to nine killed in two weeks. The police chief in Fairfax County of Virginia state, Thomas Manger, said ballistic evidence was conclusive. Linda Franklin, aged 47, was shot in the head while in a carpark. Manger urged the public to look for a white van seen leaving the scene. Past evidence has been scant, with only one clue, a card, apparently left by the sniper. Hijacker disarmed says Saudi airline Saudi Arabian Airlines says a lone gunman who tried to hijack one of its flights from Sudan has been disarmed by special agents on board. No on was injured. The plane, with 204 passengers and crew, returned to Khartoum, where the suspect was handed over to Sudan. The flight would set out again for Jeddah, the airline said. In Saudi Arabia, itself, authorities have beheaded a suspected rapis, according to the news agency AFP. It was Saudi Arabia's 39th execution this year. Japan abductees home from North Korea Five Japanese nationals who were abducted by North Korean agents in the 1970s have arrived in their home country for a short visit after almost a quarter of a century away. The five were snatched from their home towns in northern Japan in 1978 and are the only certain survivors among 13 people North Korea admits to having abducted to teach the Japanese language and culture to its spies. Saddam set to win referendum vote Iraqis have been voting in a nationwide referendum assured to be deliver a landslide victory for President Saddam Hussein. Twelve million Iraqis are eligible to reply "Yes" or "No" to a new seven-year term for Saddam Hussein, the man the President George Bush wants removed through "regime change". Bus attacked in Israel Four people have been slightly wounded in an apparent shooting attack on a bus in northern Israel. Details of the attack, which took place close to Kibbutz Nir David near the northern Israeli town of Beit Shean, remain unclear. Israel's defence minister has meanwhile said it may soon pull troops out of another West Bank city amid U.S. demands for an easing of pressure on Palestinians to help Washington build Arab support for possible war on Iraq. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is expected in Washington for talks with President George W. Bush on Wednesday. Prince Claus laid to rest Prince Claus of the Netherlands, who died last week aged 76, has been laid to rest in a family mausoleum in Delft after a funeral in The Hague. Among the 2,000 guests were Spain's King Juan Carlos and Britain's Prince Charles. Claus, formerly a German diplomat and soldier, was the husband of the Dutch Queen Beatrix. They married 36 years ago. Prince Claus became popular among the Dutch despite resentments over the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War Two. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
