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