UN official denies allegations<\/p>\n
EAST TIMOR: The deputy head of the United Nations mission in East
\nTimor on Thursday strongly rejected criticism of his work from a
\nfellow senior staffer, describing the complaints as \"completely
\nunfounded.\"<\/p>\n
\"The allegations by Mr Parameswaran are completely unfounded
\nand without any merit as far as I'm concerned,\" said Dennis
\nMcNamara, the deputy administrator of the United Nations
\nTransitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET).<\/p>\n
N. Parameswaran, a Malaysian, said on Tuesday that he had quit
\nas UNTAET's Chief of Staff and would leave his post on Sunday.<\/p>\n
In his resignation letter to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan,
\nParameswaran complained of poor morale, interference in
\nmanagement and a lack of senior Asians in the UN administration.<\/p>\n
Parameswaran also alleged that his efforts to promote refugee
\nreturns and reconciliation were hampered by McNamara and others.
\n--AFP<\/p>\n
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\nATW-Australia-bullet
\nAustralian girl carries bullet in arm for 10 days
\nJP\/9\/ATW<\/p>\n
Aussie girl carries bullet in arm<\/p>\n
AUSTRALIA: A wounded nine-year-old Australian girl hit by a stray
\nbullet during a Sydney New Year's Eve fireworks display
\nunknowingly carried it for 10 days.<\/p>\n
The girl suffered an apparent fireworks wound in her right arm
\nwhile she watched the display with her family in the Sydney
\nsuburb of Belfield, police said.<\/p>\n
Police said it appeared a gun had probably been fired in the
\nair during New Year's Eve celebrations and the girl, whose name
\nhas not been released, was hit by the bullet on its way down.<\/p>\n
While common in some countries, firing guns into the air
\nduring celebrations and other public events is virtually unheard
\nof in Australia. --Reuters<\/p>\n
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\nATW-India-Maoists
\nPolice kill five Maoist insurgents in eastern India
\nJP\/9\/ATW<\/p>\n
Police kill five Maoist insurgents<\/p>\n
INDIA: Police in the eastern Indian state of Bihar shot dead five
\nMaoists in an encounter on Thursday, the United News of India
\nreported.<\/p>\n
The agency said quoting state police chief R.R. Prasad as
\nsaying that a large quantity of arms and ammunition and police
\nuniforms were seized from the insurgents after the encounter in
\nKyambari Prasadi village of Arwal district.<\/p>\n
Police said the Maoists belonged to the People's War Group
\n(PWG), one of the most radical leftwing militias operating in the
\ncountry.<\/p>\n
Prasad said a police party raided the village on receiving a
\ntipoff that armed insurgents were hiding there.<\/p>\n
The extremists on seeing the police opened fire. In the
\nensuing encounter five Maoists were killed and two policemen were
\nseriously injured, he said. --DPA<\/p>\n
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\nTV film planned on Sept. 11 hijacking
\nJP\/9\/ATW<\/p>\n
TV film planned on Sep. 11 hijacking<\/p>\n
USA: A television network is planning a movie about the Sept. 11
\nhijacking and crash of United Airlines Flight 93, the Hollywood
\nReporter in Los Angeles said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
CBS, one of the four major television networks in the United
\nStates, plans to make The Real Story of Flight 93. The film would
\nbe produced from the point of view not of passengers but their
\nfamilies and rescue workers.<\/p>\n
The flight, with 43 people on board, took off from Newark, New
\nJersey, for San Francisco and crashed near Pittsburgh in western
\nPennsylvania.<\/p>\n
U.S. security officials suspect that hijackers planned to
\ncrash the jet into the White House or the U.S. Capitol building
\nin Washington. Passengers apparently stopped the terrorists after
\nlearning via cellphone of similar airliner attacks on the World
\nTrade Center towers in New York and the Pentagon near Washington.
\n--DPA<\/p>",
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