DEUTSCHE WELLE/DW-WORLD.DE Newsletter English Service News October 13th 2006, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD:
German Politicians Propose Internet Registry for Sex Offenders After a 39-year-old woman was recently raped and murdered in Bayreuth by a repeated sex offender, both liberal and conservative politicians have recommended starting an Internet registry based on the US model. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hm17rIfcha79I0&req=l%3D1hm17qIfcha79I0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bundesliga is in full swing again! Follow all the German soccer action with DW-WORLD.DE in our special section: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hm17rIfcha79I1&req=l%3D1hm17qIfcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Grameen Bank wins Nobel Peace Prize The Nobel Peace Prize for 2006 has been awarded to Muhammad Yunus, the 66-year-old Bangladeshi behind the Grameen Movement micro-banking system that has helped millions in his homeland. The Swedish Academy praised Yunus and the Grameen Bank not only for the economic benefits but also for advances in democracy and human rights. Yunus' bank particularly supports women by enabling them to start up small businesses without collateral. The German government has reacted positively to the decision. A government spokesman said Chancellor Angela Merkel had called the Grameen Movement micro-banking system a good example of "social entrepreneurship". N. Korea sanctions nearer The Chinese and South Korean presidents have agreed that the UN Security Council should take yet unnamed "appropriate measures" against North Korea following its claimed nuclear test. Chinese President Hu Jintao and his South Korean counterpart Roh Moo-Hyun, also agreed to cooperate more closely on the North. The United States urged a Friday vote on a UN resolution to punish Pyongyang for the test. US Ambassador to the United Nations, John Bolton, said after negotiations on the resolution on Thursday that the Security Council was near to an agreement. The revised draft no longer contains a blanket arms embargo but does include inspections of cargo moving to and from North Korea. Japan became the first country to implement concrete measures. The cabinet has formally approved sanctions against the North, including an import ban and blocking North Korean ships from entering Japanese ports. Israeli raids kill 13 in Gaza over 24 hours Three Hamas militants have been killed in an Israeli air strike on their car in the northern Gaza Strip. At least five others were wounded in the attack near the town of Beit Lahiya. The Israeli army said the militants had been on their way to launch rockets at Israel. The deaths bring to 13 the number of Palestinians killed by the army since Thursday, when it launched its latest incursion into the southern Gaza Strip and stepped up its airstrikes in the north. Earlier on Friday, a 29-year-old Palestinian woman was killed by a stray bullet in the south of the strip. The Israeli army says the operation is targeting tunnels and what it called "other terror threats". EU support sanctions against Iran The European Union has apparently given up seeking a swift solution to the dispute with Iran over its nuclear programme and is now in favour of UN sanctions. Diplomatic sources said the 25 EU foreign ministers will pass a resolution on Tuesday supporting discussions at the United Nations to impose sanctions. According to diplomats the EU had no other choice after talks with Iran failed to persuade the Islamic regime to halt its uranium enrichment activities. Nonetheless they are still prepared to continue discussions with the Tehran leadership. British army chief calls for withdrawal of troops from Iraq Britain's new army chief Richard Danatt has caused a stir by adding his voice to calls for a swift troop withdrawal from Iraq. In a newspaper interview General Dannat said that British troops in Iraq were making the situation worse. Dannat has now tried to downplay his criticism, insisting on Friday that British troops would remain in Iraq "until the job is done". Nevetheless his comments are certain to infuriate Prime Minister Tony Blair who recently said that withrawing troops from Iraq at the moment would be a grave mistake. Dannat described Blair's policy towards Iraq as "naive". Downing Street has countered the general's comments by saying that the democratically-elected Iraqi government had requested the presence of the 7,000 British troops in the country. Coroner: Reporter killed by US troops A medical examiner in Britain has ruled that US forces unlawfully killed a television journalist in the opening days of the Iraq war. Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker said he would ask the attorney general to take steps to bring to justice those responsible for the death of Terry Lloyd. The reporter for the British television network ITN died following a gunshot wound to the head. Walker said the evidence that the bullet was fired by the Americans was overwhelming. Lloyd was killed while being transported in an ambulance after being wounded by Iraqi troops. The Pentagon has rejected the verdict, saying US troops had followed the "applicable rules of engagement". Thousands flee Iraq daily : UN The UN refugee agency has said that more than 40,000 people a month are fleeing Iraq and that more than 1.5 million are displaced within the country itself. A spokesman for the United Nations High Commissioner for refugees said tens of thousands of Iraqis were moving on to Turkey, Lebanon, Egypt, the Gulf states and Europe. He said Iraqis were now the largest single national group seeking asylum in European countries. He cited sectarian violence and the high number of killings as the main causes of the exodus. Nine die in Afghan suicide attack A suicide attacker targeting a NATO convoy in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar has killed eight civilians and a foreign soldier. The attack on the Kabul highway just outside the city is the latest in an increasing number of suicide bombings that have killed about 200 people this year. A Taliban spokesman said its guerrillas had carried out the attack. EU raises concerns over French bill The European Union has reacted with concern to the passage of a bill in France's lower house of parliament making it a crime to deny mass killings of Armenians in Turkey during World War I. A European Commission spokeswoman said the legislation could harm efforts to end decades of dispute over the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians. France's upper house must still pass the law. In Ankara, protesters gathered outside the French embassy to voice their anger over the vote. Turkey denies that the systematic killings took place, attributing the mass deaths to partisan warfare between Christian Armenians and Muslim Turks. Philippines charge 45 for failed coup The Philippines have filed a rebellion complaint against at least 45 people over their alleged involvement in a failed coup eight months ago. Charges are being pressed against a former senator, 21 military officers, a retired university president and four suspected communist rebels in the foiled overthrow of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo. During the political crisis in February, Arroyo imposed a week-long state of emergency. US responds coolly to British demands The United States has responded with reservations to a call by the British government to close the US prison on Guantanamo Bay. State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said the US was looking forward to the day when they closed the facility but insisted that at the moment it was "housing some very dangerous people". British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett made the attack against Guantanamo on Thursday when she launched her department's annual human rights report. She called the detention of prisoners without fair trial unacceptable in terms of human rights. Meanwhile, Washington has for the first time allowed the Red Cross access to 14 terrorism suspects transferred to Guantanamo last month, including the suspected mastermind of the September 11 attacks, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. Sixth body recovered from French train Rescuers have ended their work at the scene of a train collision in northeast France after a sixth body was pulled from the wreckage late Thursday. The accident occurred on Wednesday when a passenger train from Luxembourg carrying about 20 people collided head-on with a freight train just south of the Luxembourg border. Investigators are seeking the cause of the accident. A regional French official and French rail unions speculated that the driver of the passenger train had ignored a red light. Austrian Social Democrats launch talks Austria's center-left Social Democrats, the winners of national elections earlier this month, have formally launched negotiations with the current ruling People's Party. The talks got underway in Vienna two days after President Heinz Fischer asked Social Democrat leader Alfred Gusenbauer to form a new government. The Social Democrats narrowly defeated the conservative People's Party in the Oct. 1 balloting, making a "grand coalition" similar to Germany's government likely. Neglected children to receive more help German Justice Minister Brigitte Zypries has said that she's going to improve the situation of neglected children in the country. A group of experts has begun investigating how to help victims of child neglect more quickly in response to the death of two-year old Kevin in Bremen. He was discovered dead this week by social workers, after apparently being neglected by his father, a heroin addict. Germany's Family Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced the implementation in November of an early-warning system to identify neglected and abused children. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Need a good laugh? Then check out DW-WORLD.DE'S From the Fringe Special, which regularly brings you quirky stories from and about Germany. 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