Troops kill 10 rebels in Aceh<\/p>\n
INDONESIA: Ten separatist rebels have been killed in the latest
\nviolence in Aceh province, the military said on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Troops killed the 10 members of the Free Aceh Movement (GAM)
\nin three separate clashes at Tapaktuan in South Aceh district on
\nFriday, Aceh military spokesman Major Zaenal Muttaqin said.<\/p>\n
Guns and ammunition were seized from the rebels, he said.<\/p>\n
But a local GAM spokesman, Abrar Muda, claimed that the 10
\ndead victims were civilians and no guerrilla was killed in the
\nskirmishes. -- AFP<\/p>\n
;AP;
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\nNepal-Maoist Rebels
\nDeath toll in fighting between Maoist rebels, police is 160
\nJP\/2\/NEPAL<\/p>\n
160 killed in Nepal battle<\/p>\n
NEPAL: At least 160 police and Maoist rebels were killed in a
\nsingle night of fighting, the worst carnage in the six-year-old
\ninsurgency to bring communism to this Himalayan kingdom, police
\nsaid on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The dramatic jump in the toll -- the government had reported
\n54 deaths Friday -- was revealed by local officials to
\njournalists who traveled overnight by road to the two remote
\ntowns in western Nepal that saw most of the fighting on Thursday
\nnight and early Friday.<\/p>\n
Police Inspector Padam Vohra told The Associated Press that 60
\npolicemen were killed on Thursday night while defending the house
\nof Interior Security Minister Khum Bahadur Khadka from a rebel
\nattack in Satbariya. Another 27 policemen who surrendered were
\nbeheaded and two were burned alive, he said. -- AP;AP;
\nANPAc..r..
\nHigh-Mideast-Powell
\nPowell's meeting with Arafat on hold after suicide bombing in
\nJP\/2\/HIGH<\/p>\n
Powell meeting with Arafat on hold<\/p>\n
ISRAEL: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell is waiting for a
\nstatement from Yasser Arafat denouncing a suicide bombing in
\nJerusalem before deciding whether to see the Palestinian leader.<\/p>\n
They were supposed to meet on Saturday in Ramallah, where
\nIsraeli forces have Arafat cooped up in his headquarters. Powell
\ncalled off the sessions, saying through his spokesman that \"it is
\nimportant that Chairman Arafat not miss this opportunity to take
\na clear stand against the violence that harms the Palestinian
\ncause.\"<\/p>\n
Powell could see the devastation when a helicopter taking him
\nto northern Israel for a military briefing passed over the site,
\na market in the center of Jerusalem.<\/p>\n
The bomber, a Palestinian woman, struck as shoppers were
\npreparing for the onset of the Sabbath. Six people were killed
\nand at least 90 injured, some critically. -- AP<\/p>\n
;REUTERS;
\nANPAc..u..
\nHigh-India-violence
\nTwo killed in fresh religious violence in Indian state
\nJP\/2\/HIGH<\/p>\n
Two die in more strife in Indian state<\/p>\n
INDIA: Two people were killed and 27 injured in fresh Hindu-
\nMuslim clashes late on Friday in India's Gujarat state, police
\nsaid.<\/p>\n
Gujarat has been tense since more than 750 people, mostly
\nMuslims, were killed in a wave of reprisal killings in the state
\nafter a Muslim mob torched a train carrying Hindu activists and
\nburned 59 people alive in late February.<\/p>\n
Violence has continued to erupt intermittently after the
\ncountry's worst religious bloodshed in a decade and thousands of
\nMuslims are still in relief camps and mosques, too terrified to
\nreturn home.<\/p>\n
\"Two people were killed, one due to injuries in firing by
\ngroups and the other in stone pelting in Dhanilimda area of
\nAhmedabad late on Friday,\" a senior police official told Reuters
\non Saturday. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
;REUTERS;
\nANPAc..u..
\nHigh-Vietnam-drugs
\nVietnam sentences Malaysian ecstasy smuggler to life
\nJP\/2\/HIGH<\/p>\n
Malaysian ecstasy smuggler gets life
\n
\nVIETNAM: A Vietnamese court sentenced a Malaysian man to life in
\nprison after he was found guilty of smuggling nearly 5,000
\necstasy pills into the communist-ruled country, official media
\nreported on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The Vietnam News daily said the People's Court in Ho Chi Minh
\nCity sentenced Mohd Hafiz Gomez Bin Abdullah, 35, for drug
\ntrafficking on Friday.<\/p>\n
Court officials were not available for comment on Saturday.<\/p>\n
The newspaper quoted Abdullah as testifying at the one-day
\ntrial that he was hired to take some 4,981 pills of the synthetic
\ndrugs into Vietnam in exchange for 7,000 ringgit (US$1,842) in
\nApril 2001. He also testified that he had smuggled ecstasy into
\nNew Zealand from Malaysia in November 2000. -- Reuters
\n
\n;AP;
\nANPAc..r..
\nHigh-China-Bus-Accident
\nBus crash in southern China kills 28
\nJP\/2\/HIGH<\/p>\n
Bus crash kills 28 in China<\/p>\n
CHINA: At least 28 people were killed in southern China when a
\ntruck carrying pesticides plowed into a passenger bus and burst
\ninto flames, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.<\/p>\n
The impact of Thursday night's accident outside the southern
\ncity of Changsha caused both vehicles to flip into a ditch full
\nof water 1 meter deep, further complicating rescue efforts,
\nXinhua said.<\/p>\n
Hours later, police were still pulling bodies from the charred
\nwreckage of the bus, which was carrying 53 people, 21 more than
\nit was licensed to, the agency said.<\/p>\n
Xinhua said the cause of the accident was still being
\ninvestigated. The truck's driver had been at the wheel for more
\nthan 15 hours and his vehicle was overloaded with 8 tons of
\npesticide, it said. -- AP<\/p>",
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