-Caveat Lector- http://www.thetimes.co.uk/timesBreakingNewsDisplay/0,,3,00.html World News : last updated, September 03, 2001 18:17 US walks out of racism conference The US has walked out of the World Conference Against Racism after failure to reach a compromise over moves to condemn Israel and Zionism. US Secretary of State Colin Powell has issued a statement denouncing language proposed for the UN meeting's final declaration which condemned Israel. Israel is also withdrawing its delegation, says Foreign Minister Shimon Peres. US delegate Tom Lantos, a Democratic congressman said he expected several other nations to also withdraw from the conference in Durban, South Africa. Sharon to explain role to Putin Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon aims to enlist support over the Middle East peace crisis as he starts a four-day visit to Russia. The prime minister wants to build on the relationship between the two nations and explain "Israel's outstanding need to fight against terror" during talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says aide Raanan Gissin. Russia has largely left the Middle East stage to the United States despite being co-sponsor of the peace process. Arab leaders including Jordan's King Abdullah II, in Moscow last week, have urged Russia to get more involved. Court go-ahead to move boat people The Australian military operation to remove 438 refugees from a cargo boat off Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is expected to begin within hours. The refugees, mainly Afghans will be transferred from the boat to a troop ship that will then depart for Papua New Guinea. The transfer and departure have been given the go-ahead after an Australian federal court lifted an injunction which had been stopping the transfer of the boat people and their removal from Australian waters. Government HQ blast kills one An explosion has ripped through the headquarters of the Russian- backed government in Chechnya during a Cabinet meeting, killing at least one person. Several wounded people have been taken to hospital although no news of their condition has emerged. No one in the Cabinet meeting was injured, according to the Interfax news agency. The blast appears to have been timed to coincide with a meeting of top officials in the building, situated in the capital Grozny. War crimes chief seeks more suspects The chief UN war crimes prosecutor is in Belgrade to seek more extraditions of suspects, including Serbian figurehead president Milan Milutinovic. But Carla Del Ponte faces a daunting mission - Serbian officials have indicated they are unwilling to comply with her demands to extradite all of the 15 war crimes suspects who are still at large in Serbia. "Del Ponte can demand whatever she wants, but the Serbian government doesn't have to discuss it," says the dominant Yugoslav republic's justice minister Vladan Batic. Ethnic Albanian politician murdered Gunmen in Kosovo have shot and killed an ethnic Albanian politician with alleged ties to Slobodan Milosevic and other Yugoslav authorities. Qerim Ismajli was killed when unknown assailants shot through the front door of his house in the village of Gornje Godance, 25 kilometres miles southwest of Pristina. The 47-year-old was a member of the Kosovo Democratic Initiative, a political group that had close links to Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president. Community shocked after shark kills boy The Virginia Beach community is in a state of shock after a shark killed a 10-year-old boy in the first fatal shark attack in the US this year. Beachgoers are staying ashore and authorities are patrolling local waters following the weekend tragedy - the first in the area in 30 years. David Peltier, of Richmond, Virginia, suffered a 17-inch gash to his left leg in the attack and lost a huge amount of blood from a severed artery. He died in a Norfolk hospital. South Korean "sympathiser" loses vote South Korea's parliament has passed a no-confidence motion against the Cabinet minister in charge of policy towards North Korea. The vote is a blow to President Kim Dae-jung's so-called "sunshine" policy of engaging North Korea, which helped him win the Nobel Peace Prize last year. It follows a North Korean proposal to resume stalled talks, which the South says will help restore the reconciliation process that began with an inter-Korean summit last year. Man charged over Arctic ship death A Norwegian with a history of mental illness has been charged with murdering a 69-year-old tourist who fell from a ship cruising in Arctic waters. Myrtha Vogt, from New Mexico, was quickly pulled out of the icy waters of the Norwegian Sea but was already dead. Police first believed the death was accidental until witnesses described a man who had been acting strangely and had been seen near the woman. Minister's Majorcan frolic is excused Germany's defence minister, caught frolicking with his girlfriend in a Majorca after a flight at taxpayers' expense, appears secure in his job. Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder backed him against opposition calls to quit because of a row over the flights. Rudolf Scharping's resignation "is not an issue," said government spokesman Uwe- Karsten Heye after the minister met Schroeder in Berlin to clear the air. © Copyright Press Association Ltd 2001, all rights reserved. -- Best wishes World's dumbest statement: "Six million Jews died in the Holocaust but 10 million broiler chickens died in slaughterhouses last year." -Ingrid Newkirk, PETA. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/";>www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. 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