22 Indonesian religious students released by Yemen: Yemeni

22 Indonesian religious students released by Yemen: Yemeni authorities released 22 detained Indonesian religious students Sunday after negotiations between the government and the Indonesian Embassy, a Yemeni security official said. The 22 had been students in the fundamentalist Dar Al-Hadith religious school, located in Marib province in the mountains about 160 kilometers (100 miles) east of the capital San'a, the official said on condition of anonymity. -- AP

Police, frantic Palestinians clash at burning jail: Palestinian police clashed with stone-throwing protesters demanding the release of jailed militants from a security compound which Israeli warplanes had bombarded and set ablaze on Monday in retaliatory air strikes. Police fired into the air to disperse the crowd of about 200 people, many of them relatives of jailed militants, who thronged the gates of the Saraya compound and lobbed stones in anger when they saw police leading only some prisoners out of the jail. -- Reuters

U.S. says $80m terror assets frozen: U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Kenneth Dam said on Monday financial assets worth $80 million had been frozen since the start of America's war on terror. The United States has named a number of individuals, groups and businesses as financiers of global terror and sought to freeze their financial assets both in the U.S. and elsewhere since the Sept. 11 attacks that killed thousands. --Reuters

Malaysian police break up opposition rally: Malaysian police fired tear gas to break up an illegal rally held by the opposition Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS), whose supporters responded by setting one of their truck's ablaze, a police official said. But PAS denied that its supporters had set fire to the truck and blamed police for Sunday's clash during which it said 31 people were detained -- 29 of whom were freed later. --Reuters

World Trade Center death toll now stands at 2,843: The official death toll in the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center has been revised steadily downward, and now stands at 2,843, city officials said on Monday. A high of more than 6,500 in mid-September has gradually declined as duplications have been discovered and people reported as missing have been found. --AFP