Malaysia urges Jakarta to stop RI illegal workers:

Malaysia urges Jakarta to stop RI illegal workers: Kuala Lumpur has urged Jakarta to try to prevent its citizens from entering Malaysia illegally to seek work, a news report said Friday. It was better for Indonesian workers to be stopped at the departure points in their country than being caught and running into trouble with Malaysian law, Bernama news agency quoted Malaysian Ambassador to Indonesia Rastam Mohammed Isa as saying. --DPA

Body of Palestinian found after Bethlehem bombing: A Palestinian man was killed overnight in an explosion at an Israeli army checkpoint outside the West Bank city of Bethlehem, a Palestinian security official said. The man's family said they believed he had carried out a suicide bombing on Thursday night, but the Israeli army originally cast doubt on that and reported no casualties in the explosion. --Reuters