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Deutsche Welle English Service News April 7th, 2001, 16:00 UTC --------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: How an Empire Fell German media giant Leo Kirch will file for insolvency on Monday, according to a number of different sources. When he does, it will spell the end of an empire that fell to risky ventures and creative accounting. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the Internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1430_A_491964_1_A,00.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Israeli soldiers kill 30 Palestinians in Nablus The Israeli army has confirmed that at least 30 Palestinians were killed this weekend in the West Bank city of Nablus. Early Sunday Israeli Apache helicopters fired rockets into the Jenin refugee camp as Israeli tanks and troops moved into another West Bank village near Ramallah. Local residents inside the camp confirmed fierce battles had taken place between Palestinian gunmen and Israeli soldiers. Meanwhile, the standoff near the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ continued on Sunday with no end in sight. Some 200 Palestinians, some armed, remain holed up inside the Church of the Nativity, in Bethlehem. Publishing statistics on the operation "Defensive Shield" the Israeli military said it had detained over 1,400 Palestinians including 361 on its most wanted list. It also said 12 Israeli soldiers have died and 143 others have been wounded in combat. As the fighting in the West Bank and Gaza Strip continued, US Secretary of State Colin Powell prepares for talks with key leaders in the Middle East. Mr. Powell who will depart Washington for Middle East late Sunday said if circumstances permit, he would meet with Palestinian President Yassar Arafat. Deflecting a call by US President George W. Bush for an Israeli military withdrawl "without delay", Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon promised only to end the campaign "as expeditiously as possible". Brigadier-General Ron Kitrey said the military has received no orders to change its battle plan. Hundreds of thousands of people protest Israeli military incursions Hundreds of thousands of people around the world on Sunday took to the streets to protest Israel's 10-day-old incursion in to the West Bank and Gaza Strip. A crowd estimated at more than half a million filled the main boulevards of the Moroccan capital, Rabat. The five-hour pro-Palestinian march was peaceful. In Lebanon, thousands of demonstrators, many of them Palestinian, marched peacefully through the centre of the capital, Beirut. At the same time some 3,000 supporters of the militant group Hamas rallied in front of a UN regional headquarters. In Bahrain, thousands of people chanting "Death to America, Death to Israel" joined a funeral procession for a young man who died of injuries sustained during a violent rally at the U.S. embassy on Friday. In Europe, some 10,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Brussels. Some minor violence was reported when pro-Palestinian demonstrators hurled stones at the American embassy, however, the march from Brussels' commercial district to the European Union institutions' quarter was mostly peaceful. Car bomb kills 10 in Colombia A powerful car bomb has exploded on a crowded street in southeastern Colombia killing at least 10 people and injuring 25 others. Police said no group has claimed responsibility for the bomb, which exploded in a popular area packed with restaurants and nightclubs in the city of Villavicencio, some 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the capital Bogota. 29 killed in Nepal The Nepal defense ministry on Sunday said at least 24 Maoist rebels and 5 government soldiers have been killed in the past 24 hours. Most of the casualities occurred early Sunday when rebels attacked government soldiers in Bardiya district. The ministry also said 9 rebels were arrested and a small cache of home-made bombs was confiscated. The government of Nepal imposed a state of emergency last November following a series of attacks on security posts. Tenth body recovered from sunken Libyan ship Rescue teams have recovered the remains of a tenth sailor from a Libyan cargo ship that sank on Thursday in bad weather off the coast of Morocco. The freighter, on its way to Tripoli from Casablanca with 7,700 tonnes of flour had a total of 34 people on board. Nine sailors who were found alive flew home on Saturday evening. 34,000 people have already sought asylum in Germany this year The number of people seeking asylum in Germany during the first three months of 2002, was significantly less in comparision to the same period last year. The federal interior ministry said 33,905 people had sought asylum of which just 2.2 percent were approved. Most of the refugees seeking asylum came from Iraq, Turkey, and Yugoslavia. Bio Diversity Conference in The Hague Delegates from 182 nations have gathered in The Hague, Holland for a two week bio-diversity conference. The UN sponsored gathering will discuss how to further the protection of the world's plants and animals. The UN Environment Program (UNEP)hopes to establish guidelines on sharing the world's biological and genetic resources. The summit will also lay the groundwork for the Earth Summit which will be held in September in South Africa. Baffled Bavarians jam police telephone lines Hundreds of people jammed police telephone lines in Bavaria on Saturday night seeking an explanation for strange lights seen in the night sky. Witnesses said it was like a huge firework lasting several seconds. Pilots flying into the Munich airport also reported seeing the lights. The authorities initially thought the light was space junk burning up as it re-entered the atmosphere, however, NASA said all of its birds are still in the sky. Scientists said the most likely explanation is that a meteorite skimmed the earth's atmoshphere. So far there have been no reports of little green men asking for directions in Bavaria. Annual Marathon of the Sands footrace underway At daybreak on Sunday a group of over 630 people from 30 nations embarked on one of the most gruelling foot races on Earth, The Marathon of the Sands. The seven-day, 230 kilometer race across the Sahara Desert in 50 degree Celsuius heat. Most days, runners will cover between 30 and 40 kilometers except on day four when they are expected to run 71 kilometers across the north-west Sahara. Dyhydration, exhaustion, blisters, sandstorms, and snakes are just some of the hazards the runners face. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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