Deutsche Welle English Service News 08.11.2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Journalist of the Century Dies 40 years ago, a police raid on the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" shook the nation. The affair turned out to be a boon for the magazine, and its legendary publisher, Rudolf Augstein, who died on Thursday. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1441_A_671958_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UN Securitiy Council unanimously approves resolution giving Iraq one last chance to disarm The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved on Friday a resolution giving Iraq one last chance to eliminate its weapons of mass destruction or face what it referred to as "serious consequences." The resolution, drafted by the United States and co-sponsored by Britain, gave Baghdad a week to accept the terms and promise to comply. The resolution gives U.N. arms inspectors, who have been out of Iraq for four years, "immediate, unimpeded and unconditional" rights to search anywhere, including Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces, for chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, and threatens Iraq with "serious consequences" if it fails to cooperate. Saddam compliance with UN must be 'prompt and unconditional': Bush. In a first reaction U.S. President Bush said Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's compliance with UN must be "prompt and unconditional". He added that any Iraqi noncompliance is serious. The UN resolution presents Iraq with what he called a "final test" to disarm. If Iraq doesn't fully comply with the UN, the United States and its allies will disarm Baghdad said Bush in a news conference in the White House immediately after the UN security council meeting. German minister confident of a normalization of relations with Washington German Defence Minister Peter Struck has said he is confident that relations between Washington and Germany will return to normal, ahead of talks Friday with his American counterpart Donald Rumsfeld in Washington. Speaking before heading for Washington to meet Rumsfeld, he said he expected their meeting to be more friendly this time, predicting what he called "a good atmosphere". Rumsfeld snubbed Struck at a NATO meeting in Warsaw last month after Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder spoke out opposing a war on Iraq during his election campaign. Struck said he would discuss with Rumsfeld plans for an EU rapid reaction force -- stalled by a row between Greece and Turkey -- and German-Dutch plans to replace Turkey as head of the international security force in Afghanistan. Interpol fears new wave of terror from Al Qaeda terror network The international police authority Interpol on Friday warned that Al Qaeda militants seem to be preparing simultaneous attacks in several countries including the United States. In an interview with the French Le Figaro newspaper Interpol Secretary General Ronald Noble said that recent intelligence suggested it was gearing up for the attacks. Noble also said he thought Al Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden was alive, even though nobody has been able to track him down. Noble said that despite some successes in cracking down on militant groups, particularly in Europe, the risk of attacks was as real as ever. Meanwhile according to American media reports Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network has claimed responsibilty for the recent bomb attack on the island of Bali. Bali bomb attack work of al Qaeda-Jakarta minister Indonesia's defence minister said on Friday he was convinced last month's bomb attacks in Bali were the work of the al Qaeda network. He based this assessment on police findings from a key suspect arrested this week. Matori Abdul Djalil also said the suspect, an Indonesian identified as Amrozi, was part of Jemaah Islamiah, a regional network of Muslim militants that has been linked to al Qaeda. Amrozi has confessed to being part of the group that carried out the attacks, which killed more than 180 people. Djalil did not elaborate on details of what Amrozi had told police. Chinese Communist Party congress opens in Beijing The 16th congress of China's ruling Communist Party opened this Friday. More than 2,000 delegates from across China are attending the meeting in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. The one-week congress is likely to see the naming of a successor to the present party leader, 76-year-old Jiang Zemin, who is to step down next week. It is widely expected that the party post will go to Vice President Hu Jintao, who is also tipped to take over the office of Chinese president from Jiang in March. Jiang opened the congress with a speech in which he suggested that the party should make changes to move with the times. However he ruled out any major changes to China's one-party political system. Voters in Gibraltar reject shared sovereignty The people of Gibraltar wish to remain British. This was the resounding result of a referendum held there on Thursday. Voters were asked whether they approved the idea of Britain sharing sovereignty over the territory with Spain. Almost 99 percent voted to reject the idea. London has long been in negotiations with Madrid over sharing sovereignty over Gibraltar. Both Britain and Spain have said they would not recognise the result of the referendum. Following the vote, Gibraltar's first minister, Peter Caruana warned London against ignoring the will of the people of the territory. Top EU official says Turkey is not a European country The head of the EU convention on the future of Europe, Valery Giscard d'Estaing, said in a newspaper interview Friday that Turkish membership in the EU would mean "the end" of the European Union. Turkey is a nation close to Europe and an important country ... but it is not a European country," he told the French newspaper Le Monde, adding that the 15-nation bloc should instead offer Ankara a cooperation pact similar to the one presented to Ukraine. Currently Turkey has the status of "candidate country," but last month the EU declined to give it a date to start admission talks -- a key goal of the outgoing government in Ankara defeated in last Sunday's election. Columbian dugs baron freed from jail A leading Columbian drugs baron has been released from prison after having served just half of his 15-year sentence. Gilberto Rodriguez is a leading member of the Cali cartel. A judge ordered his release on grounds of good behaviour. Rodriguez walked out of prison under heavy police guard on Thursday night. His release is seen as a setback for the government of Columbian President Alvaro Uribe who had intervened in an effort to get the court order overturned. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 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