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06. 10. 2005, 17:00 UTC
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Spain to expel illegal immigrants
Spain has announced it will expel would-be immigrants who illegally
enter Melilla and Ceuta, two Spanish enclaves on the north Moroccan
coast. Spain's Deputy Prime Minister Maria Fernandez de la Vega says
Morocco has agreed for the first time to invoke a 1992 repatriation
agreement. Hundreds of economic refugees from across Africa have
stormed the border fences of the Spanish outposts in recent weeks
and five died last week trying to enter Ceuta. An internal Spanish
police investigation reportedly shows that none of the dead had died
by police gunfire. Earlier on Thursday, 1,000 people rushed the
fences of Melilla at three points, but were deterred by Spanish and
Moroccan guards. Morocco claims Melilla and Ceuta, which have been
under Spanish rule since the 15th century, as its territory.
Blair says Iran supports Iraqi violence
Speaking in London ahead of next week's vote on the new Iraqi
constitution, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has warned that an
early pullout of US-led troops from his country would be disastrous.
At a joint press conference, British Prime Minister Tony Blair
accused Iran of supporting the insurgency with arms, either directly
or through the radical organisation Hizbollah. Tehran has firmly
rejected the allegations. Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al Jaafari
has also denied all evidence to support the claim. Two suicide
bombers have killed 12 people in the Iraqi capital. Near Kirkuk in
northern Iraq, five Oil Ministry guards were shot dead by
insurgents. In Italy, opposition leader and former EU President
Romano Prodi has pledged to withdraw his country's 3,000 troops from
Iraq if elected.
Bush vows victory against terrorists
US President George W. Bush has accused Islamic militants of seeking
to "enslave whole nations and intimidate the world". Addressing the
Washington-based organisation National Endowment for Democracy, Bush
asserted that terrorists had made Iraq their main front. He pledged
that he would "never back down, never give in and never accept
anything less than complete victory". The speech comes in the face
of declining public support for the war in Iraq.
US Senate votes to bar POW abuse
By a vote of 90 to nine, the US Senate has ignored White House
opposition and expressly prohibited US soldiers from torturing or
mistreating prisoners. In an amendment to a 440 billion dollar
defence spending bill, senators added wording to prevent "cruel,
inhuman, or degrading treatment ... of persons under custody ... of
the United States government." Republican Senator John McCain, a
decorated war veteran who spent more than five years as a
prisoner-of-war in Vietnam, authored the bill. The Senate vote
follows allegations of abuse at the US Naval Base in Guatanamo Bay,
Cuba. Amnesty International says 200 prisoners at the detention camp
are continuing a hunger-strike.
German summit talks
Germany's Social Democrats and rival conservatives are preparing for
a summit in Berlin this evening aimed at resolving a post-election
standoff. On Wednesday, their parties explored policy for a possible
grand coalition but failed to agree on who would become chancellor.
Incumbent Gerhard Schroeder and Angela Merkel of the conservatives
both claim the top job. Their party executives are holding separate
strategy talks ahead of the summit. The conservatives won four more
seats than the Social Democrats in the recent parliamentary
election.
Feminist among Afghan poll winners
The joint UN-Afghan commission that oversaw Afghanistan's recent
parliamentary election says it has finished its count and has begun
releasing results in two provinces, Nimroz and Farah. Among the
those leading in initial results is Malalai Joya, a women's rights
worker who denounced warlords two years ago at a constitutional
convention. The electoral body stressed that results won't be
official until audited, giving time for rival candidates to lodge
complaints. It said turnout on September 18 was 53 percent, down
from the 67 percent that voted in last year's poll, in which
President Hamid Karzai was elected. Visiting Kabul, NATO Secretary
General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said the western alliance would boost
its ISAF peacekeeping troop numbers from its post-election level of
8,000 to about 14,000 next year.
Two bombs explode near Thai PM
In Thailand, two bombs have exploded in a southern province being
visited by Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to investigate Islamic
insurgency. Local police said eight people were injured in the
blasts, which occurred after nightfall at two restaurants near the
Malaysian border. The region has been the target of bombings in the
past, with more than 1,000 people killed in sectarian violence since
early last year.
Israeli court bans "human shields"
Israel's Supreme Court has prohibited the Israeli army from using
Palestinian civilians as so-called human shields during raids to
locate and arrest militants. The court said the practice "severely"
violates international law. Israeli and Arab civil rights groups had
sought the ban after civilians were used as shields in the West Bank
and Gaza. A postponed summit between Israeli Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas is to take place next
Tuesday. Their encounter, originally planned for last Sunday, was
delayed amid an escalation of violence in the Gaza Strip.
Philippine spy suspect in White House
The US government has confirmed that a probe is under way against a
former White House worker who's been charged with supplying secret
documents, allegedly to the Philippines' opposition. Leandro
Aragoncillo, a Philippine-born naturalised US citizen and former US
Marine, worked from 1999 until 2001 in the Vice President's office,
first under Al Gore and then Dick Cheney, and from last year as an
FBI analyst, according to the ABC News and the Marine Corps.
Aragoncillo is charged with sending secret data to unnamed "high-
level" Philippine political figures. ABC News said the case involved
dossiers aimed at Philippines President Gloria Arroyo who recently
survived an opposition impeachment attempt. Last month, deposed
Philippine President Joseph Estrada admitted receiving information.
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