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---------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Controlling The Secret Service A second member of the far-right NPD party has surfaced as an informant for Germany's domestic intelligence agency. A debate on the workings of the secret service has now arisen. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1432_A_420214_1_A,00.html ----------------------------- Deutsche Welle English Service News 28th January, 2001, 16:00 UTC Over 500 bodies found after Lagos blasts - witnesses Witnesses say more than 500 bodies of drowned people have been retrieved from two canals in Lagos after bomb explosions from a burning military arms depot triggered panic in Nigeria's biggest city. State television showed pictures of piles of bodies by a canal surrounded by large crowds of onlookers. It's still not known how many people were killed by the dozens of explosions of munitions at the army depot in a residential area. The army stressed this was an accident without any political background. A government inquiry has been promised. Chancellor Schroeder's party to keep seeking NPD ban The German government and houses of parliament want to continue their attempt to have the supreme court ban the neo-Nazi NPD party. The court has called off hearings because a man who was a high NPD official and an undercover agent for the government at the same time was to testify. But government and conservative opposition parties say the application to the court may have to be revised. The opposition Liberals want the suit dropped. This has been energetically opposed by Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats. They've rejected calls for the resignation of interior minister Otto Schily over the affair. Israeli police kill suspected Palestinian attacker Israeli police shot dead an unarmed Arab who ran over a policeman near Tel Aviv on Monday in an incident that heightened tinderbox tensions a day after a fatal Palestinian bomb attack in Jerusalem. Police said they suspected the Arab, shot after commandeering a vehicle from an elderly Israeli couple, was a Palestinian terrorist while media said he might have been a car thief. In Brussels, European Union foreign ministers called for dialogue in the Middle East and Sweden criticised the United States for siding openly with Israel against Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat. Over the weekend, President Bush said he was disappointed with Arafat's efforts to halt violence, sparking fears in Europe that Washington has all but given up on the Palestinian leader. A senior Palestinian official has called the Bush administration's criticism of Arafat unacceptable and likely to increase support for extremists on both sides. UN says Afghan security better but problems remain The United Nations says the security situation in some parts of devastated Afghanistan has improved but lawlessness is making it impossible to deliver badly needed aid to some provinces. It's reporting fewer security threats and robberies in the capital Kabul, where an international assistance force is helping the interim government restore order. But weapons were present in large numbers among the population, slowly being recovered by the interim administration. U.N. agencies are attempting to provide badly needed food and medical aid to millions of Afghans suffering from the impact of more than two decades of conflict and the worst drought in 30 years. Six al Qaeda Fighters Die in Assault on Hospital US special forces and Afghan soldiers in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar have stormed a hospital ward where six wounded al Qaeda fighters had barricaded themselves. All six al Qaeda fighters were reported killed in the assault at Mir Wies hospital, which began at around 3:00 AM local time. After hospital staff members were evacuted, witnesses said there were at least five powerful explosions and sustained machine gun fire. Officials said the six loyalist of suspected terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, who barricaded themselves in the ward in early December, had ignored a deadline to surrender. 5 Afghan soldiers were reported injured in the 12-hour siege. Some of the 19 wounded al Qaeda fighters admitted to the hospital shortly before Taliban leaders surrendered Kandahar, escaped in December and one of them blew himself up. Two were captured and are among the 158 detainees at Guantanamo Bay. India Says Police Killed Two Pakistani Terrorists India said that two Pakistani men it accused of staging an attack last week outside a US cultural centre in Calcutta died of gunshot wounds after a police raid in eastern India. In a news conference, Indian Federal Home Secretary Kamal Pande said two Pakistani nationals were shot in a gun battle, when police stormed a terrorist hideout at daybreak. Pande said one of the men gave a statement before dying that they had carried out the attack. Police launched a manhunt after last Tuesday's machine gun attack carried out by two men on a motorcycle, in which four people were killed and 18 injured. India and Pakistan both mobilised their armies on the disputed Kashmir border after an attack on the Indian parliament last month, blamed by New Delhi on Pakistan-based militants. Refugee Drama Intensifies in Australia The refugee drama at Australian detention camps has intensified with 15 unaccompanied children held at Woomera warning that they would commit suicide if not freed, according to their lawyer. Rob McDonald told the Australian news agency AAP the children were desperate to escape the hot, remote desert camp. Hunger strikes begun 13 days ago by mainly Afghan and Middle East asylum-seekers have spread to three other detention centres, including two in western Australia. The conservative government of Prime Minister John Howard has a policy of locking up migrants declared illegal while their applications are processed. On Sunday, Australian refugee activists protested outside centres in Sydney, Melbourne and at Port Hedland. Author of 'Pippi Longstocking' books dies Popular Swedish children's author Astrid Lindgren, creator of the freckle-faced, free-spirited Pippi Longstocking, has died at the age of 94. A source close to her said she died in her sleep Monday morning, after being very weak in the last three weeks, spending most of the time in her bed. Generations of children around the world have grown up with Lindgren's young heroines and heroes, notably the headstrong, red-haired Pippi Longstocking. Among her other well-known and loved characters are the mischievous Emil and Ronia the Robber's Daughter. Lindgren wrote 88 works, including books and plays, many of which have been made into films, television series, radio shows and cartoons. Her works have sold over 100 million copies in 80 languages. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- 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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