DEUTSCHE WELLE/DW-WORLD.DE Newsletter English Service News 23. 08. 2006 16:00 Uhr UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD:
Permanent Five, EU and Germany Mull Iran Nuclear Offer As the EU ponders what to do, Iran's offer to resolve the nuclear crisis is already setting off disagreement over how to best respond: the US wants sanctions while many such as Russia and China counsel patience. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlr73Ifcha79I0&req=l%3D1hlr7lIfcha79I0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The wait is over! The Bundesliga is in full swing again! Follow all the German soccer action with DW-WORLD.DE in our special section: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlr73Ifcha79I1&req=l%3D1hlr7lIfcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- France tells Iran - suspend enrichment France has reiterated that world powers will only enter talks with Iran on its nuclear ambitions if it first suspends uranium enrichment. That message from French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy follows Iran's delivery of its formal response to cooperation incentives offered by UN big powers in exchange for a halt to Iran's nuclear programme. In Paris, Douste-Blazy said Iran knew that suspension must precede talks. He described Iran's document as "very long" and "complex" and said the six powers would decide in the next few days on what to do in the UN Security Council. It's set Iran a deadline of August 31 to cease enrichment. Beyond that, the United States is pushing for sanctions. UN, EU troops patrol Kinshasa United Nations and European Union peacekeepers have been patrolling the streets of Kinshasa to restore calm to Congo's capital. A truce that ended three days of gunbattles between rival political factions appears to be holding. Shops reopened and residents ventured out onto the streets for the first time since heavy fighting erupted on Sunday between President Joseph Kabila's presidential guard and soldiers loyal to his political rival Jean-Pierre Bemba. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and the Security Council called on both sides to end the violence. Kidnapped Fox journalists in video Two Fox News journalists kidnapped nine days ago in Gaza have appeared in a video saying they are in "fairly good health". Militants calling themselves the "Holy Jihad Brigades" have demanded that the United States release Muslims in American prisons by Saturday. The journalists - a US correspondent and a New Zealand cameraman - asked for pressure on Gaza's local government to get them freed. The video resembled videos of captives issued by militants in Iraq. UN brokers peace deal in Congo The United Nations has announced that forces loyal to Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila have agreed to withdraw from central Kinshasa. Fierce fighting between Kabila's supporters and those of his political rival Jean-Pierre Bemba have ravaged the capital since Sunday after it was announced the two would be facing each other in a run-off for president in October. At least five people have been killed in the clashes. In the meantime, the European Union deployed over 250 more troops to the country to reinforce some 1,000 EU and 17,000 UN peacekeepers. US plane escorted back to Amsterdam Dutch fighter planes have escorted a US Northwest Airlines plane bound for India back to Amsterdam's Schiphol airport after the crew reported passengers behaving suspiciously. Dutch airport officials said the Northwest pilot decided to turn back the plane just after it entered German airspace. A number of passengers were taken off the Mumbai-bound plane when it landed back in Amsterdam and questioned by police. Security has been increased at airports worldwide in the last two weeks after British police said they had foiled a plot by British Muslims to blow up planes using liquid explosives disguised as drinks. Germany searches for 2nd bomb suspect Police in Germany say the second of two suspects behind a failed plot to bomb passenger trains has probably left the country and is trying to reach Lebanon. The head of the Federal Crime Office, Joerg Ziercke, said the hunt for the suspect had been stepped up in Germany and abroad. He told Deutsche Welle television that posters with photographs of the suspect would be published shortly. German media said the suspect was a 20-year-old Lebanese man named Jihad Hamad. He is said to have last lived in the western German city of Cologne. The other suspect, a 21-year-old Lebanese student identified only as Youssef Mohammed E.H., was seized on Saturday in the northern city of Kiel. Prosecutors said a tip from Lebanese military intelligence helped apprehend the suspect before he could flee. Amnesty says Israel guilty of war crimes Amnesty International has accused the Israeli army of deliberately targeting civilians during the campaign against Hezbollah. Amnesty said there was evidence showing that Israel had purposely destroyed residential areas, food shops and public utilities. Israel has denied the allegations and said it had always warned civilians to leave south Lebanon. The government also accused Hezbollah of launching its rockets from civilian areas. Amnesty has called for a UN inquiry into possible war crimes and breaches of international law by both sides. Kurdish women testify at Saddam's trial A Kurdish woman has testified in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein, giving evidence about an alleged posion gas attack in the 1987. The former Iraqi President and six co-defendants are accused of masterminding the Anfal campaign against Iraq's Kurdish minority. Saddam is said to have ordered his forces to exterminate up to 182,000 Kurdish civilians and destroy around 3,000 villages in Iraq's northern hills and deserts. The trial has now been adjourned until September 11. NATO says troops kill 11 Taliban NATO says its warplanes have killed at least 11 Taliban insurgents in southern Afghanistan. A NATO spokesman said a group of 15 Taliban preparing an ambush was spotted near a main road in Kandahar province late on Tuesday. Eleven of them were then killed in an airstrike after they fled to a compound. Residents have however said those killed were farmers harvesting grapes. NATO has also said that one of four Canadian soldiers wounded in a suicide attack in Kandahar city on Tuesday has died of his wounds. Afghanistan is going through its worst phase of violence since US-led troops overthrew a Taliban government in 2001. "Black boxes" found from Russian plane Investigators have found the two flight recorders of a Russian passenger jet that crashed on Tuesday, killing all 170 people aboard. The recorders could give clues as to the cause of the crash. The plane, operated by the Russian airline Pulkovo, was flying to St. Petersburg from the Russian Black Sea resort of Anapa when it crashed in eastern Ukraine. Both Ukraine and Russia have declared a national day of mourning for the victims, who officials said included dozens of children. Authorities said that severe weather was likely to blame for the crash. It was the third fatal crash this year of a passenger airliner in the former Soviet Union. Red Cross ferry sent to Sri Lanka The International Red Cross is sending a ferry to northern Sri Lanka to evacuate foreign nationals caught up in the fighting between government troops and Tamil Tiger rebels. The ferry is due to pick up around 150 international aid workers and others from the Jaffna peninsula which has been the scene of heavy clashes in recent weeks. US Marines face involuntary call-ups The United States Marine Corps says it has been authorised to call up thousands of inactive reservists, mainly because of a shortage of volunteers for duty in Iraq and Afghanistan. Up to 2,500 marines will be brought back at any one time, but there is no cap on the total number of marines who may be forced back into service. The call-ups will begin in the next several months. It is only the second time since the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 that the marines have resorted to call-ups from its rarely tapped pool of inactive reservists. Australia jails man for 'jihad' bomb plot A Pakistani-born architect accused of plotting a so-called "jihad" bombing campaign in Australia has been sentenced to 20 years in jail. Faheem Khalid Lodhi is charged with planning to blow up the electrical grid in the city of Sydney as well as several defence sites in 2003. He was convicted on three terrorism-related charges in June and faced a maximum sentence of life in jail. Lodhi, who emigrated to Australia in 1996, was charged under tough new anti-terrorism laws introduced soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. Israel to buy two German submarines Israel has signed a contract with Germany to buy two submarines to bolster its defences. The two Dolphin-class submarines will be assembled in Germany and fitted with a propulsion system allowing them to remain underwater for far longer than submarines already used by the Israeli navy. The state-of-the-art submarines, manufactured by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft, will cost about one billion euros. The navy already has three German submarines. Germany donated the first two after the 1991 Gulf War and split the price with Israel for the third. 100m record holder given eight-year ban In sport, world and Olympic 100m champion Justin Gatlin has been handed an eight-year ban from athletics after accepting that his positive drugs test was a doping violation. The American had faced the prospect of a life ban after testing positive for testosterone in April, however he was spared the maximum punishment after agreeing to co-operate with athletic authorities to eradicate drugs in sport. Gatlin will lose the 100m world record of 9.77 seconds that he shares with Jamaica's Asafa Powell. An arbiration panel will now hear Gatlin's appeal which could see his ban reduced. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Need a good laugh? 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