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Police HQ bomber arrested<\/p>\n
INDONESIA: The police have arrested a former police officer,
\nidentified as Adj. Comr. Anang Sumpeno, for bombing Wisma
\nBhayangkari, a building located in the compound of the National
\nPolice Headquarters in South Jakarta, city police spokesman Sr.
\nComr. Prasetyo said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Prasetyo said Anang, a former member of the National Police
\nbomb squad, was arrested in his rented room in Bukit Duri, South
\nJakarta, early on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Anang was believed to have carried out the crime due to
\nbitterness. He was involved in a drug case in 2000 while studying
\nat the Police Science Institute. As a result he could not
\ncontinue his studies and had no position at the police.
\nThe suspect then deserted from the police.<\/p>\n
Anang constructed a low-explosive bomb and put it in a black
\nbag. The bomb, placed near a flower pot in the front yard of
\nWisma Bhayangkari, exploded on Feb. 3, destroying the front part
\nof the building. No fatalities were reported. -- JP<\/p>\n
NGOs fight for maid's rights<\/p>\n
SINGAPORE: A group of Singaporean activists have banded together
\nto protect the wealthy island nation's foreign maids from abusive
\nemployers, an organizer said Saturday.<\/p>\n
Two high-profile cases of maid abuse last year prompted some
\n25 activists to form the group called The Working Committee 2,
\nsaid founder Braema Mathi.<\/p>\n
Last July, Singaporean Ng Hua Chye, 47, was sentenced to 18
\n1\/2 years in prison for killing his 19-year-old Indonesian maid.<\/p>\n
In another case, a local employer was sentenced to five years
\nbehind bars for biting off her teenage Indonesian maid's nipple.<\/p>\n
The group will launch an advertising campaign in March to
\neducate Singaporeans about the reality of domestic workers' lives
\nand to encourage them to respect maids' basic rights, Mathi said.
\n-- AP<\/p>\n
Japan's baby princess on the move<\/p>\n
JAPAN: Japan's littlest royal, Princess Aiko, is fast learning to
\nwalk, talk and even dance, the Imperial Household Agency said
\nSaturday.<\/p>\n
In official footage broadcast by major TV networks, the 14-
\nmonth-old princess tottered around a play room and punched
\nbuttons on a CD player as she bobbed her head to music at Togu
\nPalace - the official residence of Crown Prince Naruhito and his
\nwife, Masako.<\/p>\n
She is now able to speak a few words, such as "panpan" for
\nbread and "manma" for her mother, an agency official said on
\ncondition of anonymity.<\/p>\n
As the only child to the royal heir, Aiko's birth in December
\n2001 generated intense debate over whether Japan's men-only
\nsuccession law should be changed to allow her to one day ascend
\nthe throne. -- AP<\/p>\n
Israeli tank in flames<\/p>\n
ISRAEL: An Israeli army tank ran over a large roadside bomb on
\nSaturday and burst into flames near a Jewish settlement in the
\nGaza Strip on Saturday, Israeli security sources and Palestinian
\nwitnesses said.<\/p>\n
It was not immediately known how many soldiers were inside the
\ntank and whether there were any casualties. The Israeli army
\nrefused immediate comment.<\/p>\n
The military wing of Islamic militant group Hamas claimed
\nresponsibility for the attack in a statement faxed to Reuters.<\/p>\n
Hamas has spearheaded a 28-month-old Palestinian militant
\nuprising against Israel for a state in Gaza and the West Bank.<\/p>\n
Palestinian witnesses said the tank burst into flames after
\nseveral explosions in the area near the fortified Jewish
\nsettlement of Dugit at the northern end of the desert strip that
\nskirts the Mediterranean Sea. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
Ariane-4 launches INTELSAT<\/p>\n
FRENCH GUIANA: The final mission of Europe's Ariane-4 rocket
\nseries placed a telecommunications satellite into orbit on
\nSaturday, ending a 116-rocket launch career for the reliable
\nworkhorse, space officials said.<\/p>\n
The rocket, carrying a satellite for global operator INTELSAT,
\nhad been delayed for three days due to bad weather, Arianespace
\nofficials said at the launch site in French Guiana on the
\nnortheast coast of South America.<\/p>\n
First launched in 1988, Ariane-4 has flown 115 times and
\nfailed only three times. Since 1994, the rocket has had a streak
\nof 74 consecutive successful launches.<\/p>\n
But Arianespace decided to stop production of Ariane-4 because
\nthe rocket can only launch communications satellite payloads with
\na maximum weight of five metric tons, seen as insufficient for
\ncurrent market demands. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
U.S. expels Iraqi reporter<\/p>\n
UNITED NATIONS: The United States has ordered the New York-based
\nUN correspondent of the state Iraqi News Agency to leave the
\nUnited States, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday.<\/p>\n
Washington gave INA correspondent Mohammad Hassan Allawi and
\nhis family 15 days to leave the country.<\/p>\n
Allawi was told to leave "because he has engaged in activities
\nconsidered to be harmful to the security of the U.S.," a U.S.
\nofficial said.<\/p>\n
"Those activities constitute an abuse of the privileges of
\nresidence in this country," said the official, who would not say
\nwhat the alleged violations were.<\/p>\n
Allawi, 38, has been the INA correspondent at the UN for two
\nyears. He lives in Manhattan with his wife and five children,
\naged 8 to 16, who attend New York public schools. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
Dolly dies at age 6<\/p>\n
UNITED STATES: She may not have been exactly one of a kind but
\nDolly the sheep, the first cloned adult mammal, was definitely
\nunique.<\/p>\n
Dolly, aged 6, was put to sleep by veterinarians on Friday
\nafter they failed to cure her of a severe lung infection, her
\ncreators said.<\/p>\n
Dolly's birth in July 1996 was kept secret for months while
\nher creators at the Roslin Institute and PPL Therapeutics Plc., a
\ntiny biotech company in Edinburgh, Scotland carefully checked her
\nlineage. The announcement of her birth, in February 1997, sent
\nshockwaves around the world.<\/p>\n
Now cloning of farm animals has become almost routine and
\nheadlines were made this week when the offspring of some cloned
\npigs made it to market. Cloned animals are being bred to produce
\nhuman proteins for medicine, and for meat.<\/p>\n
But no one would have dreamed of slaughtering Dolly, or any of
\nher lambs. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
US extends registration<\/p>\n
UNITED STATES: The U.S. Justice Department said on Friday
\ntemporary visitors from seven nations will get four more weeks to
\nregister under an anti-terrorism program that has been criticized
\nfor unfairly targeting Middle Eastern men.<\/p>\n
It said the extension covered males who are 16 or older and
\nnationals of Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia, Jordan and Kuwait,
\nPakistan and Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n
Most individuals required to register are students, present on
\nextended business travel or visiting family members for a
\nprolonged period, the department said. Arab and immigration
\ngroups and some foreign nations have complained that Middle
\nEastern men have been unfairly singled out.<\/p>\n
The Justice Department said the Immigration and Naturalization
\nService believed the extension would be "appropriate" to assist
\nsome of the visitors in completing the registration requirements.
\n-- Reuters<\/p>\n
Fetuses stolen for worship<\/p>\n
THAILAND: A man arrested for suspected involvement in the theft
\nof preserved human fetuses and skulls from a Thai medical museum
\nhad intended to use the items in superstitious worship, news
\nreports said Saturday.<\/p>\n
The specimens, including a pair of Siamese twin fetuses,
\ndisappeared from the museum at Thailand's oldest medical school
\nlast month after having been displayed for years.<\/p>\n
Kittisak Laoprasert, 28, told police he had conspired to steal
\nthe items in the belief they would bring him good luck, as had
\nprevious fetuses and skulls that he bought from a Thai dealer,
\naccording to several media reports.<\/p>\n
"After I bought the (previous) fetuses, I kept them in a bag
\nand paid my respects every day," Kittisak was quoted by the
\nBangkok Post as saying.<\/p>\n
"Since then I have won lottery prizes and received money back
\nfrom my debtors." -- AFP<\/p>",
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