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Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English, 02-11-21Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next ArticleFrom: The Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation at <http://www.cybc.com.cy/>CONTENTS
[01] HEADLINES-- A Palestinian suicide bomber killed 10 people, including a 14 year old schoolgirl and injured at least 47 when he blew himself up on a crowded bus in Jerusalem today in the first such attack in Israel since the start of a general election campaign.--U.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair today condemned a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jersualem. -- NATO leaders invited seven ex-communist east European countries today to join in its biggest expansion yet. -- Turkey is pursuing a delay of the procedures on Cyprus until the Copenhagen European Council with an aim to secure a date to start accession negotiations. -- British Envoy for Cyprus, Lord David Hannay said there is "still time for a settlement.'' [02] MIDEAST BOMB FATALITIESA Palestinian suicide bomber killed 10 people and injured at least 47 when he blew himself up on a crowded bus in Jerusalem today in the first such attack in Israel since the start of a general election campaign.The explosion ripped through the commuter bus during morning rush hour, and witnesses said wounded children who had been on their way to school could be heard screaming from the twisted wreckage. The bombing, the first in Jerusalem since June, provided further evidence Palestinian militants were determined to make their presence felt in the run-up to Israel's January 28 ballot and raised the spectre of harsh military retaliation. Radio reports said more than half of the injured were below the age of 18. ........../ [03] MIDEAST REAXU.S. President George W. Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair today condemned a Palestinian suicide bombing in Jersualem.President Bush said he was "greatly disturbed" by the bombing. However, the president said he was going to continue working towards peace in the Middle East. Chief Palestinian negotiator and cabinet minister Saeb Erekat also condemned the attack. He said we condemn this attack that claimed the lives of so many Israeli civilians, as we have always condemned the killings of civilians whether Palestinians or Israelis. He blamed Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon for continued violence in a two-year-old Palestinian uprising for statehood, saying his right-wing government had blocked the path to peace talks since it took office 20 months ago. [04] NATO INVITATIONNATO leaders invited seven ex-communist east European countries today to join in its biggest expansion yet.Secretary-General George Robertson announced at the start of a two-day Prague summit that the 19-nation alliance was opening its doors to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia, spreading NATO's security guarantee from the Baltic to the Black Sea. U.S. President George W. Bush said that by welcoming seven members, NATO will not only add to its military capabilities but it will also refresh the spirit of this great democratic alliance. The newcomers will take their seats in 2004 alongside Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, which in 1999 became the first three former Warsaw Pact countries to join the Western defence pact. Mr. Robertson said NATO, which will now have 26 members and a land border with Russia -- no longer an adversary -- would keep its door open to further candidates from the Balkans region. The leaders were set to approve a strike force to combat new threats, and pledge to modernise their armed forces in a drive to make the Atlantic Alliance, marginalised in the U.S.-led war on terrorism, relevant to the post-September 11 world. [05] CYPRUS TURKSTurkey is pursuing a delay of the procedures on Cyprus until the Copenhagen European Council with an aim to secure a date to start accession negotiations.Reports from various sources said the new government said the new turkish government expresses willingness to discuss the plan, but it is clear that it wants, in exchange, a date to start accession negotiations with the European Union. The United States continue to exert pressure in favour of Turkey, US President George Bush told the Turkish President during the NATO summit in Prague. In Brussels, European Commission President Romano Prodi, did not give Turkey's Justice and Development Party leader, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hopes that the EU will give Ankara a date to start the accession negotiations. [06] HANNAY CLERIDESPresident Glafcos Clerides and British special representative for Cyprus Lord David Hannay met today for over an hour and discussed developments in the peace process, as these emerge following the submission of a UN proposal on a comprehensive settlement in Cyprus.Lord Hannay said there is "still time for a settlement,'' when asked if there is time to reach agreement on Cyprus before the European Union summit in mid December in Copenhagen. He also said efforts will be made to change several provisions of the UN Secretary-General's peace plan for Cyprus, while he welcomed President Clerides' positive response to negotiating the plan. The British diplomat said the response of the Turkish Cypriot side is now expected while asked asked what will happen if there is no settlement before Copenhagen, Lord Hannay referred to the conclusions of the Helsinki summit, which, he said, remain the dogma of the British government's policy. Lord Hannay also met Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides and House President Demetris Christofias. [07] ECUADOR BOMBA series of explosions ripped through a munitions storage site at an army barracks in Ecuador's Andes, leaving at least six dead and wounding more than 200.An Army spokesman said two soldiers and four civilians were killed in the blasts, likely triggered when a grenade went off accidentally. A Red Cross spokeswoman told Reuters the blasts severely wounded 74 people and caused light injuries in another 200, mostly from shattered glass as windows burst in buildings around the base. Thousands of people fled the area around the barracks in panic as sections of the Andean city. [08] KUWAIT SHOOTINGUnknown attackers shot and wounded two U.S. soldiers in Kuwait today in the latest in a series of shooting incidents targeting U.S. troops training in Kuwait.A U.S. military spokesman said the two are in a serious but stable condition. The soldiers were shot while travelling between the Camp Doha military base on the northern outskirts of Kuwait city and a base in southern Kuwait. Some 10,000 U.S. troops are in Kuwait for the Operation Desert Spring training exercise. Last month two Kuwaitis attacked U.S. Marines training on a Kuwaiti island, killing one and wounding another. Shots have also been fired at U.S. soldiers training in the desert, although some Kuwaiti officials blame bird hunters [09] AFGHAN BOMBAt least 11 people were wounded today, three of them seriously, in an explosion in the centre of the southern Afghan city of Kandahar.The blast occurred at the money exchange centre of Charsoo Bazzar during rush hour, they said. The device that exploded was believed to be a grenade hidden under a table. No one has claimed responsibility for the blast, which local authorities described as an act of terror. Kandahar was the main stronghold of the former Taliban regime which was toppled last year by the local opposition with the support of the United States and its allies. [10] WEATHERThis afternoon, it will be clear with moderate, south-easterly winds, three to four beaufort and the sea slight. Temperatures will rise to 27 inland and on the coasts and 18 over the mountains.Tomorrow, the weather will be clear with north-westerly winds, two to three beaufort and the sea will be slight. Temperatures will fall to eight degrees inland, 11 on the coasts and 10 over the mountains. The fire hazard remains very high in all forest areas. Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation: News in English Directory - Previous Article - Next Article |
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