EU officials to help RI fight against terrorism: The European

EU officials to help RI fight against terrorism: The European Union said on Friday it would send a trio of top officials to Indonesia early next month to help fight against terrorism in the wake of the Bali nightclub bombing. The trio will be led by Carsten Staur, a state secretary from the Danish foreign ministry. Denmark currently holds the rotating presidency of the EU. "The purpose of the visit is to express the European Union's solidarity and readiness to support the government of Indonesia in the fight against terrorism," the Danish presidency said in a statement. -- AFP

President Moi dissolves parliament: President Daniel arap Moi officially announced the end of his 24-year rule of Kenya on Friday, dissolving the nation's parliament and starting an election campaign that pits the son of the nation's first president against a veteran politician who leads an opposition unified like never before in the country's history. No date has been set for the election - the first in which a Kenya president has been constitutionally obliged to step down - but it must be held within 90 days. --AP

Hambali, Malaysian terror suspect charged in RP: State prosecutors in the Philippines said on Friday they have filed criminal charges in court against fugitive Indonesian Islamic militant Riduan Isamudin and a Malaysian man detained in Singapore. The criminal indictment accuses Isamudin, also known as Hambali, and Faiz bin Abu Bakar Bafana of giving money to local religious militants to procure explosives used in a series of Manila bombings nearly two years ago that left 22 people dead. --AFP

Nigeria defends defiance of World Court border ruling: Nigeria on Friday defied international pressure to accept a World Court judgment ordering it to cede the disputed oil-rich Bakassi peninsula to its neighbor Cameroon. Foreign Minister Sule Lamido met diplomats on Thursday to defend President Olusegun Obasanjo's surprise decision to reject the judgment, a contravention of the United Nations charter. --AFP