DEUTSCHE WELLE/DW-WORLD.DE Newsletter English Service News 12. 08. 2006 16:00 Uhr UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD:
Germany Welcomes UN Resolution on Lebanon German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Saturday welcomed a UN resolution calling for an end to the bloodshed in the Middle East and urged its "swift and consistent" implementation. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlpf4Ifcha79I0&req=l%3D1hlpf3Ifcha79I0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The wait is over! The Bundesliga starts again! Follow all the German soccer action with DW-WORLD.DE in our special section: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlpf4Ifcha79I1&req=l%3D1hlpf3Ifcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Hizbollah chief says they will obey truce Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has said his guerrillas would observe a UN resolution to end fighting with Israel. But a stop was not possible until the timing of the truce was agreed and adhered to by Israel, Nasrallah said. Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora has said the resolution is in his country's interest. Meanwhile, leaders around the world hailed the passage of UN Security Council resolution 1701 to end the war between Israel and Hezbollah. German Chancellor Angela Merkel urged for a "swift and consistent" implementation of the measure. Israeli PM Ehud Olmert said the cease-fire could be in place by Monday. Israeli offensive in Lebanon goes on Despite the UN resolution demanding a cease-fire the Israeli army has pushed deeper into Lebanon while air strikes have killed up to 19 people. Israel tripled the number of troops in south Lebanon, airlifting hundreds of Israeli troops into the region even though Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has backed the UN truce. In Saturday attacks, up to 15 people were killed in the village of Rashaf, 20 kms east of Tyre. Earlier, an Israeli air strike targeted a convoy of civilian vehicles fleeing the town of Marjayoun killing at least four people. The Israeli army reported that at least 30 soldiers were wounded in fighting with Hezbollah militants on Saturday. Contacts to Germany in London plot A high-ranking German interior ministry official has said that like the 11 September 2001 attacks in the USA, the suspects in Thursday's foiled bombing plots on airliners in Britain had contacts to Germany. Deputy Minister August Hanning told the weekly "Bild am Sonntag" that Germany however was not targeted in the thwarted attacks. Meanwhile, Pakistan named a British national with suspected links to al Qaeda as a key figure in the alleged plans to blow up tranatlantic aeroplanes. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said one man arrested, Rashid Rauf, had contact with the plotters of the attack. In Britain, one of the 24 suspects arrested in connection with the plot was freed without being charged. Many die in Sri Lankan violence According to government sources Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers have killed 27 military personnel in an offensive on the army-held northern Jaffna peninsula. The military says that it killed more than 100 rebels in the fighting as Tiger rebels launched attacks on an airfield in the region. The port city of Trincomalee also came under renewed attack. The Tiger rebels consider Jaffna to be their cultural home and it is thought they are determined to recapture it. Around 40,000 troops are stationed in Jaffna, which is cut off from the rest of the island by rebel territory. Three US soldiers killed in Afghanistan Three American soldiers have been killed in action in eastern Afghanistan. The troops came under attack from Taliban rebels on Friday in Nuristan province. In the southern province of Kandahar, a Canadian soldier was killed when a suicide bomber attacked a coalition convoy. The death raises the number of Canadians killed in Pakistan the past week to seven. Elsewhere, three suspected al Qaeda fighers were killed and three detained in a US-led coaliton raid in the eastern province of Khost. US forces arrest 60 suspected terrorists In Baghdad, US forces have raided a funeral gathering and detained 60 men suspected of links with an al-Qaeda cell blamed for a number of car bomb attacks. This was the first major operation since US reinforcements started streaming into Baghdad last week as part of a new crackdown on violence in the capital. A statement by the US military said the arrests were made in Arab Jabour, a southern neighbourhood of Baghdad and a stronghold of Sunni insurgents. The 60 detained men are believed to be associated with a senior Iraqi al-Qaeda leader in a cell that "specialises in bomb making," the statement said. KLM plane leaves runway in Amsterdam A plane belonging to Dutch carrier KLM overshot the runway after landing on Saturday at Amsterdam's Schiphol airport. A spokeswoman for the airline said there were no casualties in the mishap. The 190 passengers on the flight from London's Heathrow airport left the plane by stairs. An inquiry has been opened to determine the cause of the accident. Fires threaten inland towns in N. Spain Authorities in northern Spain say that forest fires which have swept its Galicia region may spread inland to the regional centres of Santiago de Compostela and Ourense. At dawn, 77 fires were still raging, of which 47 were under control, but the number of fires could be expected to increase during the day as temperatures rose. Regional police described the fires as "deliberate" and 22 people have so far been arrested. Thousands of fire-fighters are battling the blazes. The worst-hit area has been the Atlantic coast of southern Galicia, close to the border with Portugal. Typhoon kills over 100 in China Torrential rain is again threatening the south-east of China this weekend after Typhoon Saomai slammed into the region, killing 105 people and leaving another 190 missing. More than 20,000 soldiers and paramilitary police have been mobilised for relief efforts after Saomai, the strongest storm to strike the country since 1949, blacked out cities and wrecked more than 50,000 homes. Saomai weakened to a tropical depression on Friday but was expected over the weekend to regain strength over China's south. 374 millimetres of rain fell in just six hours on Thursday. Maisch wins women's marathon At the European Athletics Championships in Gothenburg, Sweden, German Ulrike Maisch has won the gold medal in the women's mararthon. Maisch finished with a personal best of 2:30:01. 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