DEUTSCHE WELLE/DW-WORLD.DE Newsletter English Service News 12. 03. 2006 17:00 Uhr UTC ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1932045,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Car bombs in Baghdad kill at least 30 In Iraq at least 36 people have been killed by a series of coordinated car bombs in the capital Baghdad. Police said more than 100 others were wounded in the attacks which happened in Sadr City, the Shi'ite district of the capital. A police spokesman said two car bombs went off at one market while a third exploded almost simultaneously at another. The area of the capital is the stronghold of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Meanwhile the trial of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been adjourned for a day after a five-hour session on Sunday. He and seven other defendants are facing charges of crimes against humanity in connection with the massacre of almost 150 Shi'ites in the village of Dujail in 1982. Autopsy being conducted on Milosevic The autopsy has begun on the body of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who was found dead in his cell on Saturday. A spokesman for the War Crimes tribunal at the Hague, where Milosevic was being tried for war crimes, said results of the autopsy would be known within the next 24 hours. Earlier the chief prosecutor of the UN's war crimes tribunal said she couldn't rule out that Milosevic had committed suicide. Carla Del Ponte also said that his death made it even more urgent for two former Bosnian Serb leaders to be delivered to the tribunal. The 64-year-old Milosevic had been on trial for the past four years on more than 60 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for his role in the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. Four US soldiers killed in Afghanistan Four US soldiers have been killed in eastern Afghanistan after the vehicle they were travelling in was hit by an explosive device. Earlier a former Afghan president who heads a government commission seeking to encourage Taliban defections survived a suicide bomb attack in Kabul. Police said at least two people, including a suicide car bomber, were killed in the blast, which targetted Sibghatullah Mojadidi, who also chairs the upper house of parliament. Several other people were injured. Mojadidi was in a car being driven on a busy main road from his house towards the city centre when the blast occurred. Confusion over Russia's Iran plan Iran says a Russian compromise aimed at defusing an international dispute over Tehran's nuclear activities is still on the agenda after earlier rejecting the plan. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said negotiations were still possible if the Russian proposal acknowledged Iran's right to conduct nuclear research on its own soil. Moscow had proposed enriching low-grade uranium for Iran on Russian territory to ensure that the material would be used only for power stations and not to make nuclear warheads as feared by the West. Chile's first woman president sworn in Chile's first female president has been sworn in at a ceremony in the port city of Valparaiso. Michelle Bachelet was imprisoned and tortured under the military dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990. The 54-year-old single mother appeared relaxed as she took her oath before the 1,000 invited guests, which included more than 20 heads of state. The centre-left politician was elected on a pledge to reduce the gap between rich and poor in the country. Ariane-5 rocket launched The first Ariane-5 rocket to lift off this year has sent two satellites into orbit after a long delayed launch. The launch was initially scheduled for February 21, but it was postponed three times due to technical problems. Half an hour after the blast-off from the European Space Agency launch centre in Kourou, French Guyana, the rocket released two telecommunication satellites. One is for Spain's defence ministry, the other for the European telecom operator Eutelsat. It is to provide telephone, data and video transmissions across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. Protest against fascist rally in Milan Police in the northern Italian city of Milan have clashed with anti-globalisation protesters ahead of a planned fascist rally. About 300 people set cars and a building on fire when police tried to break up the demonstration. Police said that a nail bomb injured four police officers and that at least 40 demonstrators were arrested. Alonso wins opening F1 grand prix In sport, reigning Formula One champion Fernando Alonso has won the opening Grand Prix of the season in Bahrain. 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