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English Service News October 9th 2006, 16:00 UTC ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Today's highlight on DW-WORLD: EU: North Korean Nuclear Test Is "Unacceptable" The European Union has strongly condemned North Korea's nuclear test as "unacceptable." Germany, the United States and China have slammed the test as a provocation and demanded a tough United Nations response. To read this article on the DW-WORLD website, just click on the internet address below: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlzu7Ifcha79I0&req=l%3D1hlzu6Ifcha79I0 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Click Back is waiting for you! DW-WORLD invites you to participate in the October version of our monthly quiz and win a great prize. To play, go to: http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=1hlzu7Ifcha79I1&req=l%3D1hlzu6Ifcha79I1 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- UNSC condemns North Korea The United Nations Security Council has condemned North Korea's claim of a nuclear test and demanded that it return to six-party talks on its weapons programme. This came in the form of a joint statement issued following an emergency meeting of the Security Council held in New York. It also vowed to respond strongly and swiftly to the claim. Security Council members were to meet again later in the day to consider further action. The US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, told reporters that Washington would seek a resolution against North Korea under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter. Such resolutions allow sanctions to be imposed or even the use of force. UNSC nominates Ban to succeed Annan The United Nations Security Council has nominated South Korean Foreign Minister Ban Ki-Moon as the successor to Secretary-General Kofi Annan. The move came at a council meeting at UN headquarters in New York. Following the vote, Japan's ambassador to the UN, Kenzo Oshima who is currently the president of the Security Council, said the members had made a good choice. The 192-member General Assembly has the final say on the appointment of the secretary-general, under the provisions of the UN charter. Afghan police hunt reporters' killers Authorities in Afghanistan have identified up to six people they want to question about the killing of two German freelance journalists. Karen Fischer and Christian Struwe, who worked for Deutsche Welle, were shot dead in the early hours on Saturday in their tent in Baghlan province while conducting independent research. Meanwhile, the commander of the ISAF forces in Afghanistan has warned the country has reached a "tipping point". In a BBC online report, Lieutenant General David Richards said that unless the conditions of Afghans improved in the next six months, some 70 percent of the population could throw their support behind the Taliban. Putin calls Politkovskaya death "tragic" Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised that all necessary measures will be taken to find the killer of the award-winning journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, whose death he described as "tragic." The employer of the award-winning journalist, the Novaya Gazeta newspaper has offered a reward of nearly 750,000 euros for information on the murder. The journalist, a fierce critic of the Russian president and the war in Chechnya, was found shot dead in an apparent assassination on Saturday in her Moscow apartment building. Lithuania also expells Russia diplomat Georgia is refusing to let all Russian cargo planes to land, including those carrying illegal Georgian refugees as the spy row between the two neigbours continues to grow. Russia was due to send another planeload of refugees to Tbilisi on Monday. Russia in turn has threatened to pull out of summit of former Soviet republics, the CIS states, scheduled to be held in Belarus later this month. Belarus' President, Alexander Lukashenko, says none of the CIS countries approve of Russia's actions. Meanwhile, the independent Baltic News Service reports that Lithuania has expelled a high-ranking Russian diplomat for suspected spying. Iraqi VP's brother murdered Unidentified gunmen have assassinated the brother of Iraq's Sunni vice president. General Amir al-Hashimi, brother of Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi, was killed in his home in northern Baghdad on Monday. In eastern Iraq, hundreds of members of an Iraqi police force fell sick and at least three died after eating a suspect meal. Authorities in the city of Numaniya, some 80 kilometres south of Baghdad, are investigating whether the food in question was poisoned. Somali troops drive Islamists out of town Somali soldiers backed by Ethiopian troops have forced militiamen allied to the Union of Islamic Courts to retreat from a strategic hilltop town near Baidoa, the seat of the Somali interim government. Hundreds of Ethiopian troops and heavily-armed government fighters moved into the town of Bur Hakaba on Monday, forcing Islamic court fighters to flee. This marks the first reversal in an ongoing offensive which has seen the Islamic courts take over huge parts of Somalia's south as well as the capital Mogadishu. Interim Somali Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi says the Islamists want to invade Baidoa. Kenya and Ethiopia have said they are willing to help defend Baidoa if it comes to that. Belgian voters punish ruling coalition Results from local elections across Belgium show the ruling Liberal-Socialist coalition of Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt have suffered heavy losses, less than a year ahead of national elections. The conservative opposition Christian Democrats have gained ground, while the anti-immigrant Vlaams Belang party received strong support in many towns and districts across Flanders, the Dutch-speaking north of the country. In one Antwerp district, over 43 percent voted for the far-right party. For the first time, Belgium had granted non-EU citizens the right to vote. Thai king swears in new cabinet Thai King Bhumibol Adulyadej has sworn-in a post-coup cabinet lineup that is set to rule the country for one year until elections in October 2007. Key posts went to well-respected economists, high-profile civil servants and two retired military officers. Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont had submitted his list of 28 ministers for royal endorsement before making the lineup public. The military council that ousted former prime minister Thaksin Shinawtra and appointed Surayud accuses Thaksin's government of corruption and is investigating the allegations. UN: Attacks in Darfur must stop The United Nations human rights chief has made strong accusations against the Sudanese government, saying Khartoum was trying to change the ethnic balance in Darfur. In a report compiled by Louise Arbour, the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sudan is accused of using government-backed militia to carry out "massive" attacks on Sudanese civilians in South Darfur. Hundreds were killed in a four-day span. The report, based on interviews with survivors of the attacks carried out in August and September, called for an independent Sudanese inquiry and to bring the perpetrators to justice. Khartoum should also help with the delivery of humanitarian aid and medical assistance. Since 2003, at least 200,000 people have died and more than two million fled from fighting in Darfur. US E. Phelps wins Nobel Economics Prize The 2006 Nobel Economics Prize has been awarded to the US economist Edmund Phelps. The jury chose Phelps for his analysis of "intertemporal trade-offs in macroeconomic policy": a study of the relationship between short- and long-term effects of economic policy. Merger creates aluminium giant Russian aluminium giants Rusal and Sual have merged with Swiss company Glencore to form the world's biggest aluminium company. The long-expected merger creates a group that will produce four million tons of primary aluminium a year. That's over ten percent more than US company Alcoa, formerly the world's biggest group. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The Bundesliga is in full swing again! 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