Deutsche Welle English Service News 04. 07. 2004, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Attention: Due to e-mail manipulation, many e-mails are being sent from e-mail accounts that resemble Deutsche Welle mail accounts. Many of these mails contain viruses. We would like to inform you that Deutsche Welle (DW-WORLD) is not responsible for sending such mails. We are are doing our best to put an end to external e-mail manipulation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DW-WORLD is introducing a new monthly quiz: "Click Back" will test your knowledge of stories we've written. If you answer all questions correctly, you can also win one of three great prizes, including a digital camera. To play, please go to: http://www.dw-world.de/english ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: King Otto Rules Greece Once Again Greece, the sensation of the European Soccer Championships, has one man to thank for their success. "King Otto" Rehhagel, an old school disciplinarian German, has taken Greek soccer to unprecedented heights. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/english/0,3367,8053_A_1254730_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Iran also plans indictment against Saddam
Iran says it will submit its own indictment in Iraq against Iraq's former dictator Saddam Hussein. It will accuse him of using chemical weapons against Iranians during the Iraq-Iran war of the 1980s. Iran's foreign ministry said the lawsuit would be filed with the special Iraqi court in Baghdad where Saddam made a first appearance last Thursday. Seven Iraqi charges referred to killings of Iraq's Kurds and southern Shiites but did not mention the Iraq-Iran war of 1980 to 1988. Hundreds of thousands people died on both sides. Islamist group denies killing Marine An Islamist group has denied that it has killed a US Marine of Lebanese origin who went missing near Falluja in Iraq two weeks ago. The extremist group calling itself "The Ansar al-Sunna Army" said on its own Web site that claims posted on other extremist Web sites on Saturday had "no basis in truth". One week ago, the television channel Al-Jazeera had shown film footage of the US soldier Wassef Ali Hassoun, kneeling with his eyes bound, apparently in captivity. Neither the US military, Hassoun's family nor the Lebanese foreign ministry have been able to confirm Saturday's report. Deadly storm sweeps east Asia Tropical storm Mindulle continues to sweep across east Asia, leaving at least 19 people dead in Taiwan, as it heads towards South Korea. In Taiwan, flooding was the worst in 25 years. In one location, Nantou County, 30 houses on a hill were engulfed by mudslides. Five bodies were recovered. Rainfall was a massive 140 millimetres per hour. Before hitting Taiwan, Mindulle had killed 32 people in the Philippines and destroyed an estimated 14,000 homes. Another Indian missile test India has launched another nuclear-weapon-capable medium-range missile, a month after the last test by rival Pakistan. The Indian news agency UNI said the 'Agni' missile hit its target about 700 kilometres away. As part of their ongoing peace talks over Kashmir, the two countries had planned to inform each other in advance about their missile tests. Both had recently emphasised that the tests should not be overrated politically. Gaza, West Bank, Jerusalem deaths Several people have died in fresh violence in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Near Jenin Palestinians shot at a car and killed a Jewish settler. The man had been travelling without the usual military escort. Hours earlier Israeli soldiers shot dead a suspected Palestinian assailant near a Jewish settlement in the Nablus area. Palestinian paramedics say on Saturday Israeli soldiers shot dead two youths in Beit Hanun in the Gaza Strip. And Israeli police say a Palestinian ferrying workers illegally into Israel was killed by border guards on Sunday in a suburb of west Jerusalem. Moves to form new German leftwing party A new alliance of dissident politicians and trade unionists angry at the German government's welfare cuts has been formed in Berlin and plans to run in the 2006 election. The 'Election Alternative for Work and Social Justice', which includes prominent leftwing Social Democrats, says it will fight the welfare cuts throughout the country and put special pressure on Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder. A party left of Schroeder's Social Democrats is to be formed in a few months. The Social Democrat chairman, Franz Muentefering, warned that launching a new leftwing party would weaken the worker movement. German poverty rising, say welfare groups Charity organisations say welfare cuts planned by the German government will increase the number of poor in Germany from 2.8 to 4.5 million people. A national poverty conference said the number of juveniles who would have to live on the lowest benefit would triple to one and a half million. To apply the new laws the federal labour agency may visit people at home to check on their financial status. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder has defended the new rules but also said anyone who fell into need would not be left in the lurch. German stores chain axing 4,000 jobs One of Germany largest chains of department stores, Karstadt, has announced plans to axe about 4,000 jobs by 2006. That is almost every tenth job in the company, which says poor consumer demand is driving it deep into the red. Karstadt has 212 department stores. New president Koehler meets citizens The new German president, Horst Koehler, has shared an open-air meal in Berlin with more than 1,300 citizens. For the first time for the introduction of a new German head of state, a so-called "Table of Democracy" was laid at the Brandenburg Gate. The idea comes from ancient Greece, where citizens introduced their supreme representative to his post with a feast. In a speech, Koehler called on Germans to show more optimism and believe in their strengths. Inaugurated two days ago, he said he intends to seek more dialogue with people during his presidency. Schumacher wins French Grand Prix Finally motor sport and the French Grand Prix has been won by Michael Schumacher. It is the Ferrari driver's nineth win of the Formula One season. Second at Magny-Cours was Fernando Alonso in a Renault, who had kept Schumacher in check until lap 32. Third was another Ferrari driver Rubens Barrichello. In a few hours time, the European soccer championship final will be contested by host Portugal and Greece in Lisbon. At Wimbledon, rain has again interrupted the men's singles final, between Roger Federer and Andy Roddick. Roddick was leading. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Are you visiting Germany this summer? 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