Reuters World News
Highlights 1900 GMT June 5
Reuters, 06.05.03, 3:02
PM ET
MOSCOW - A woman suicide
bomber ambushed a bus carrying Russian air force pilots near rebel
Chechnya, blowing it up and killing herself and at least 17 others,
government officials said.
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BAGHDAD - President George
W. Bush vowed to uncover the facts about Saddam Hussein's alleged
weapons of mass destruction, as a U.S.-run radio station in Baghdad
appealed to Iraqis to help find the missing
arsenal.
U.S. troops came under
attack again in Iraq, where one soldier was killed and five wounded
in the troubled western city of Falluja, and two were wounded
outside a Baghdad bank.
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MONROVIA - Liberia's
President Charles Taylor said a coup attempt sponsored by foreign
powers had been foiled, just after the former warlord had been
indicted for war crimes while attending peace talks in
Ghana.
ABIDJAN - Sierra Leone's
special court on war crimes will turn to the U.N. Security Council
for help in bringing indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor to
trial, the court's top investigator said.
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PARIS
- A Moroccan man wanted in connection with the September 11, 2001,
attacks on the United States has been arrested in France, a French
judicial source said.
Karim
Mehdi, 34, was under investigation for "participation in an
association of criminals linked to terrorist
activities".
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SEOUL - The United States and
South Korea agreed to a timetable for removing frontline American
forces from the South's border with communist North Korea in a bid
to boost security, the allies said in a
statement.
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BRUSSELS - Belgian
prosecutors said they had detained a man of Iraqi nationality after
a series of letters containing a nerve gas ingredient were sent to
the prime minister's office and the U.S. and British
embassies.
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BERLIN - One of Germany's
most controversial politicians, former deputy chancellor Juergen
Moellemann, fell to his death in a parachute jump that police are
investigating as a possible suicide.
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OMISALJ, Croatia - Pope John Paul, beginning the
100th foreign trip of his papacy, urged Croatia's leaders to heal
wounds inflicted by war and communist rule.
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MOSCOW
- Russia, contradicting British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said it
would supply Iran with fuel for a nuclear reactor whether or not
Tehran signed an additional inspection agreement with the U.N.
nuclear watchdog.
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LONDON - Britain said it
would have to consider any claim for political asylum from Saddam
Hussein's daughters but would almost certainly turn it down, after
media reports they want to come to Britain.
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BRUSSELS - Members of the forum racing to complete
a draft constitution for the European Union by a June 20 deadline
accused national governments of blocking key institutional
reforms.
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JERUSALEM - The afterglow of
a U.S.-led Middle East summit faded, with Palestinian President
Yasser Arafat saying Israel had offered nothing "tangible" and
hardliners on both sides vowing to oppose a road map to
peace.
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BRUSSELS - The European Union
said it would launch a range of diplomatic sanctions against Cuba
after the communist island executed three hijackers and jailed 75
dissidents and independent journalists.
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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 mission sets no precedent for any future
role there for the agency, Defense Department officials
said.
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NEW YORK - The top two New
York Times editors resigned, dogged by an unrelenting scandal
sparked by a former young reporter who plagiarized and fabricated
dozens of stories at the nation's most influential
newspaper.
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ROTTERDAM, Netherlands - A
Dutch court acquitted 12 men accused of plotting a "holy war"
against the West and helping to recruit al Qaeda and Taliban
fighters in the Netherlands.
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