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;REUTERS;KOD; ANPAu..r.. ATW-INDIA-HINDUS Indian police arrest Hindu leaders, foil march JP/12/ATW Police nab Hindu leaders, foil march INDIA: Indian police arrested two leaders of a hardline Hindu group on Sunday to prevent them leading a march in Gujarat state, scene of the worst violence between Hindus and Muslims in a decade earlier this year.

Pravin Togadia, general secretary of the Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Acharya Dharmendra were taken away by police outside a temple in Gujarat's main city Ahmedabad where hundreds of activists had gathered for the procession.

The independent election commission charged with holding elections in Gujarat next month had banned the march, saying it could reignite tensions with minority Muslims and affect the vote.

More than 1,000 people, mostly Muslims, died in a wave of revenge attacks in Gujarat after a suspected Muslim mob burnt alive 59 Hindu activists in a train in February. --Reuters

;REUTERS;KOD; ANPAi..r.. ATW-BRITAIN-ATTACK UK police charge three men under Terrorism Act JP/12/ATW Three men charged under Terrorism Act BRITAIN: British police said they had charged three men with terrorism offenses but declined to comment on a newspaper claim the suspects had planned to release cyanide gas on London's Underground rail system.

Scotland Yard said late on Saturday the men had been charged under the Terrorism Act with "possession of articles for the preparation, instigation and commission of terrorism acts".

It named them as Rabah Chekat-Bais, 21, Karim Kadouri, 33, and Rabah Kadris, in his mid-30s. All were unemployed and living in Britain.

The Sunday Times newspaper said police had arrested three men of Tunisian or Moroccan background who had planned to launch a cyanide attack on the underground system, popularly known as The Tube. --Reuters

;AFP;KOD; ANPAu..r.. ATW-Australia-immigrants Australia sends asylum seekers home from Pacific holding camps JP/12/ATW Australia sends asylum seekers home AUSTRALIA: Almost half the 1,500 asylum seekers sent to Pacific island camps as part of Australia's "Pacific solution" to stem illegal immigration have gone home, the government said on Sunday.

Immigration Minister Philip Ruddock said about 100 people were still on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island and around 720 remained on the tiny island state of Nauru.

But of the 1,515 originally diverted to Manus and Nauru when the government refused authority for them to land on mainland Australia, 695 had been repatriated.

The Pacific Solution policy was devised after the so-called Tampa standoff in which Australia refused a Norwegian freighter permission to land asylum seekers rescued from a sinking ferry off Indonesia on Australian soil. --AFP