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Deutsche Welle English Service News April 11th, 2001, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Hitting Israel Where it Hurts Voices of opposition against Israel's policy in the Palestinian territories are growing stronger within the EU. Several West European countries, chiefly Germany, are pushing for a halt of military exports to Israel. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://dw-world.de/english/0,3367,1434_A_495179_1_A,00.html ----------------------------- Powell arrives in Amman US Secretary of State Colin Powell has arrived in Amman, Jordan for talks with King Abdullah. Amman is Mr. Powell's final stop before travelling to Jerusalem later this evening. In the coming days, Mr. Powell will meet with Israel Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian President Yassar Arafat who remains confined to his presidential compound in Ramallah. Israeli military enters camps near Nablus The Israeli army, ignored U.S. pressure to end its offensive on Thursday, has launched new raids in the West Bank. Earlier today an IDF spokesmant said tanks and troops had pulled out of 24 villages. Israel's latest moves sent a mixed message to Washington, which has joined an international chorus demanding an immediate end to a 13-day-old military onslaught aimed at rooting out Palestinian militants. The IDF has confirmed tanks and troops have entered the Palestinian-ruled towns of Bir Zeit and Dahariya and the Ein Beit Elma refugee camp, near the city of Nablus, making dozens of arrests, seizing arms and occupying buildings. The IDF said the last major pocket of Palestinian resistance in the Jenin camp, scene of some of the worst fighting in the campaign ended when 36 gunmen surrendered. Explosion in Djerba kills 4 and injures 20 German tourist Five people were killed and at least 20 people were injured by a powerful blast near an ancient synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba. The German foreign ministry has confirmed, four of the dead people were German tourists. The fifth victim is reportedly the truck driver. They also said most of the injured are also German tourists but wouldn't elaborate on the seriousness of their wounds. The authorities said the blast was an "accident", caused by a truck filled with propane, that had crashed into a wall surrounding the synagogue. However, there is speculation, that the blast may have been an attack on a symbol of the small Jewish community at a time of growing anger in the Arab world over Israel's offensive in the West Bank. Afghan security sweep nets 151 rockets, suspects International peacekeepers in Afghanistan have found a cache of weapons including 151 Chinese-made rockets. General Deen Mohammad Joorat, the Interior Ministry security chief, said there have also been further arrests of suspects in a plot to kill interim leader Hamid Karzai and ex-King Zahir Shah. An ISAF spokesman said members of the 18-nation force, in collaboration with Afghan police, discovered the cache on Wednesday that included the rockets, which are similar to two fired at an ISAF base earlier this week. Forensic investigators to examine Afghan graves The United Nations has asked for the assistance of international forensic investigators to help in their investigation of mass graves found in Afghanistan's central Bamiyan province. The UN said they believe the graves were apparently filled in December about one month before the fall of the Taliban, Afghanistan's former islamic hardline rulers. Philippine ferry fire kills 23 At least 23 people have been killed and 27 more are still missing in the Philippines following a fire on a passenger ferry in the seas southeast of Manila. The ferry, had set sail from the island of Masbate but was abandoned due to the fire just an hour from its destination, Lucena in Quezon province, about 110km from Manila. Montenegro Shipping Lines, which owns the vessel, said a total of 219 people had been rescued. It also said a total of 243 passengers and 47 crew member were on board. Belgrade parliament changes law to allow extradiction The Yugoslav parliament on Thursday approved a law which will clear the way for suspected war criminals to be extradited to the UN tribunal in The Hague. The legislation will only apply to suspects already indicted by the Holland-based court. The bill was approved in the lower house with 80 votes for and 39 against. The Yugoslav government has been under pressure to extradite more suspects by the United States which froze $40 million (USD) of aid after Yugoslav authorities failed to meet a 31 March deadline to act. Bereaved Bosnian women rally in Holland Relatives of some of the 7,000 Muslim men and boys murdered after Bosnian Serb forces overran UN "safe" areas in Srebrenica in 1995 on Thursday demonstrated outside the Dutch parliament. The women are angry about the report published yesterday by the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) that exonerated Dutch troops for failing to prevent Europe's worst atrocity since World War II. The 7,000 page report said no evidence could be found linking former President Slobodan Milosevic, who is on trial for alleged Balkans atrocities, with the slaughter. UN International Court now ratified by 66 countries 10 nations on Thursday morning filed documents at the U.N. headquarters in New York, bringing to 66 the number of nations to formally ratify a Rome treaty that establishes an International Criminal Court. The treaty will officially come into effect on July 1st with the court itself expected to go into operation next year in The Hague, Holland. The new tribunal will have jurisdiction only when countries are unwilling or unable to prosecute individuals for the world's most serious atrocities: genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and human-rights abuses. In a rebuff to its European allies, the Bush administration rejected the entire concept of a permanent international war crimes tribunal. Former US President Bill Clinton signed the treaty, but did not submit it to Congress for ratification, fearing U.S. soldiers abroad would be subjected to frivolous prosecutions. China wants more German business President Jiang Zemin wants German firms to do more business with China. During his address to the Asia-Pacific forum of German business, he said good cooperation with German companies and banks had already greatly benefitted China. He added that it is his aim to make China a prosperous state. President Jiang is on a 13 day, five nation trip that will also take him to Nigeria, Iran and Libya. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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