Reuters World News
Highlights 1000 GMT June 6
Reuters, 06.06.03, 6:03
AM ET
GAZA - The militant Islamic
group Hamas said it was breaking off talks with Palestinian Prime
Minister Mahmoud Abbas on ending its attacks on Israelis. "The
dialogue has ended," Abdel-Aziz al-Rantissi, a Hamas leader told
Reuters. He said Abbas made unacceptable commitments at a U.S.-led
summit with Israel in Aqaba, Jordan, on
Wednesday.
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YANGON - U.N. special envoy
to Myanmar Razali Ismail flew into the capital hopeful he could see
detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi during a mission to
persuade the junta to free her. The ruling generals have held the
Nobel laureate at an undisclosed location since last Friday when
clashes broke out between her followers and government supporters as
she toured a provincial town.
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SEOUL - A top U.S. army
officer in South Korea says historic plans to pull back American
troops after five decades patrolling the world's last Cold War
frontier do not weaken the allies' defence against the communist
North.
TOKYO - South Korean
President Roh Moo-hyun arrived in Japan for a weekend summit where
America's two key Asian allies will seek agreement on how to resolve
a crisis over communist North Korea's nuclear arms
programme.
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WASHINGTON - U.S. forces will
accompany inspectors from the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency while
they visit a key Iraqi nuclear site, and their limited mission sets
no precedent for any future role for the agency in Iraq, Defense
Department officials said.
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BUNIA, Congo - An advance
party of French troops arrived to a warm welcome from residents in
Congo's Bunia town in the first deployment of a 1,400-strong rapid
reaction force to stop bloodletting among rival
militias.
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BRUSSELS - The presidium
steering the work of a forum drafting a European Union constitution
has clinched a deal on institutional reforms in a diplomatic
breakthrough just two weeks before EU leaders meet for a summit in
Greece. The deal is said to include a long-term president of the
European Council, an issue that has proved particularly
divisive.
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HARARE - Young supporters of
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe joined police fanning through the
capital Harare as the country's main opposition geared up for a
final day of protests against the government.
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PARIS
- A German man suspected of links to the September 11, 2001, attacks
in the United States and a suicide attack on a Tunisian synagogue
last year has been arrested in France, police
said.
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MONROVIA - Heavily-armed
Liberian soldiers manned checkpoints on the outskirts of the tense
capital Monrovia, braced for more attacks from rebels fighting to
oust President Charles Taylor.
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MOSCOW
- A suspected gas explosion ripped through an apartment block in the
Chechen capital Grozny killing at least 10 people, eight of them
children, NTV television reported from the site.
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