Cholil Bisri dies<\/p>\n
People's Consultative Assembly deputy speaker Cholil Bisri,
\n62, died on Monday at his residence in Rembang, Central Java,
\nafter suffering from a liver ailment and low blood pressure. He
\nis survived by his wife and eight children. A student at the
\nMuslim boarding school founded by Cholil and brother Mustofa,
\nAkhmad Dahlan, said Cholil was found dead by his doctor at 8:40
\np.m. \"He died in peace,\" Akhmad said, adding that the National
\nAwakening Party (PKB) politician would be buried on Tuesday near
\nhis father in a family cemetery plot. -- JP<\/p>\n
Sudan rejects
\nAfrican troop offer<\/p>\n
Sudan rejected an offer of African troops to disarm rebels in
\nDarfur as peace talks began in Nigeria, insisting it was capable
\nof neutralizing both progovernment and rebel militia fighting in
\nthe western region. Rebels, in turn, said they would not accept
\ndisarmament by Sudanese government forces to end an 18-month-old
\nconflict. Nigeria's President Olusegun Obasanjo made the proposal
\nahead of the talks in Abuja, arguing that Sudanese forces were
\nincapable of disarming the rebels without more fighting in
\nDarfur, where the conflict has already killed up to 50,000
\npeople. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
Tigers issue
\nfresh warning<\/p>\n
Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers issued a fresh warning on Monday to Sri
\nLankan security forces against supporting renegade rebels and
\nrisking the collapse of a Oslo-brokered truce. The Liberation
\nTigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), in a letter to the Norwegian-led
\nSri Lanka Monitoring Mission, said security forces had colluded
\nwith a breakaway Tiger faction to kill two LTTE members in the
\nisland's east last week. The LTTE accused the Sri Lankan army of
\n\"accommodating and encouraging the activities of armed groups\",
\nand warned that it is a \"serious threat to normalcy and
\nmaintaining the integrity of the truce\", the Tamil website
\nreported. -- AFP<\/p>\n
Israel plans 530
\nsettler homes<\/p>\n
Israel plans to build 530 new settler homes in the occupied West
\nBank after Washington softened its opposition to growth in Jewish
\nenclaves, a policy shift Palestinians say will make peace
\nimpossible. Israeli political sources said on Monday the
\nconstruction, together with tenders for 1,000 other homes
\napproved last week by Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, would mainly
\naffect settlements near Jerusalem and be in full swing by the end
\nof 2004. Six earthmovers were already hard at work on Monday
\ncarving up a rocky hill crest beyond the last line of houses in
\nHar Gilo settlement, sandwiched between two Palestinian villages
\nsouth of Jerusalem. Officials said about 200 homes would be built
\nthere. -- Reuters<\/p>",
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