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Deutsche Welle English Service News 26th April, 2002, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: Many Killed in High School Shootout in Germany At least 18 people died in a school shootout in the German city of Erfurt on Friday. A former student stormed into the building and opened fire. The assailant is among the dead. 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_507221_1_A,00.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 18 die as student runs amok in German school A former pupil, who was expelled from his school some weeks ago shot dead 14 teachers, two pupils, a police officer and then himself on Friday in Germany's worst mass murder since World War Two, police said. Six others were seriously wounded in the shooting . Armed with a pump-action shotgun and a handgun, the 19-year-old walked though the Gutenberg school in the eastern town of Erfurt, shooting teachers he found in the corridors, classrooms and toilet. The shooting coincided with a debate in the German parliament on Friday on tightening gun control legislation. Israel raids West Bank city despite Bush call Israeli forces raided the West Bank city of Qalqilya and three villages on Friday in defiance of a fresh call from U.S. President Bush for Israel to complete a pullout from re-occupied Palestinian areas. About 30 people were taken away by the troops. The raid came only hours after Mr. Bush held talks with Saudi Crown Prince Abdullah, who warned the president that the U.S. risked grave consequences for its Middle East interests if it did not moderate its support for Israel's military crackdown on the Palestinians. Meanwhile, in New York, the United Nations said it was confident a U.N. fact-finding team set up following allegations of massacres in Jenin refugee camp by Israeli troops would arrive in the region as planned by the end of the week. After consenting to the mission, Israel now appears to be putting difficulties in its path before its starts by demanding that U.N. make changes to the team. 22 dead in S.A. bus crash At least 22 people died and more than 45 others were badly hurt when their bus overturned and rolled down a cliff in South Africa's eastern KwaZulu-Natal province,officials said.The bus, which overturned after a tyre burst, narrowly missed an oncoming entourage that was carrying one of the wives of Zulu King Goodwill Zwelithini. Algerian rebels kill four civilians Suspected Islamic rebels killed four civilians and wounded three others overnight in western Algeria.Two days ago, 16 nomads, eight of them children were slaughtered as they slept in their tents near Tiaret. Algeria has been wracked by violence since early 1992 when the authorities cancelled a parliamentary election radical Islamists were poised to win. More than 150,000 people, civilians, rebels and government soldiers have been killed since then, the government says. Sierra Leone - massive diamond find? The U.N., which, with other agencies faced allegations last February that aid recruits in West Africa had sexually abused refugee children, has now drawn up basic standards of conduct.Issued in Freetown, Sierra Leone, the U.N. rules say that aid workers must never harm children, nor condone trafficking in arms, drugs and diamond dealing. The behavioural code coincided with reports that a massive diamond had been found earlier this week somewhere in Sierra Leone and that efforts were being made by smugglers to take it out of the country. Border guards have now been put on high alert. So-called blood diamonds have sold abroad by rebels to finance the civil war in the region. Since 2000, the U.N. has promoted a certification system to keep track of such stones. Milosevic's army chief denies Kosovo charges Slobodan Milosevic's former army-chief-of-staff, Dragoljub Ojdanic, pleaded not guilty to war crimes in Kosovo on Friday, after becoming the first senior Serbian figure to surrender voluntarily to The Hague tribunal in the Netherlands. The 60-years-old general is accused by United Nations prosecutors of leading Yugoslav and Serb forces in a campaign of terror and violence against Kosovo Albanians. A further five indictees are preparing to follow Mr. Ojdanic to The Hague, where Mr. Milosevic has been on trial since February. The former Yugoslav president, who stands accused of atrocities in Kosovo, Bosnia and Croatia, was handed over to The Hague last June by the Serbian reformers who overthrew him in 2000. Fourteen rebels killed in Indian Kashmir violence Indian security forces shot dead 14 Muslim separatist guerrillas on Friday in separate gunbattles in revolt-racked Kashmir, police said. About a dozen rebel groups are fighting India's rule in Muslim-majority Kashmir, where authorities say about 33,000 people have died in 12 years of rebellion. Close to a million troops have been mobilised on both sides of the border. India controls about 45 percent of Kashmir, Pakistan over 30 and the two countries have fought two of their three wars over the Himalayan region, since their independence from Britain in 1947. Funding for killer diseases - half to Africa The board of a new global fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria has decided to release its first instalment worth 422 million euros, mainly for medication, and half of it for Africa. Spread over two years, it'll go to 40 projects in 31 countries. Sixty percent of the tranche is for HIV-AIDS projects. The Global Fund was set up last year, under the auspices of the U.N., World Bank and EU. The board, which met in New York, said it had also set up a fast-track process to study 18 more projects in 12 countries. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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