 | | | | | | | Newsletter | 04.10.2008, 16:15 UTC | | | Newsline | | | World news: international | | | | | | | | | News | | | | | Current Article | | | | EU leaders open financial crisis summit in Paris
Leaders of Europe's four biggest economic powers have opened a meeting in Paris to address the world financial crisis that is threatening the stability of banks across the continent. French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country currently holds the EU's rotating presidency, is hosting the meeting that's attended by the leaders of Germany, Britain and Italy. The four nations are aiming to draft a coordinated response to the global financial crisis. Ahead of the meeting, Germany rejected an idea floated by France for a 300-billion-euro European fund to rescue troubled banks. Both Germany and Britain say they are reluctant to commit taxpayers' money to a Europe-managed fund. The summit comes ahead of the Group of Eight meeting of finance ministers in Washington next week. |  | | Bush signs $700 bn financial bailout plan
US President George W. Bush has signed into law a 700 billion dollar financial rescue package. On Friday, the House of Representatives voted in favor of the revised bailout package after rejecting the original version on Monday. Bush praised Congress for its speedy and bipartisan effort. The new package includes 150 billion dollars in tax breaks and allows the government to buy the distressed bank assets that triggered the Wall Street financial crisis in the first place.
| | | Rice to hold nuclear talks in India
US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has arrived in India for talks with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. At the centre of her one-day visit is a controversial nuclear deal that would lift a 30 year ban on nuclear trade between the US and India. The deal was due to be signed this Saturday but this has been delayed for unspecified reasons. The accord is intended to give India access to US civilian nuclear technology and fuel in return for inspections of its civilian nuclear facilities. India says it needs nuclear fuel to meet the country's growing energy demands. | | | US envoy in China for talks on N.Korea nuclear deal
Top American nuclear envoy Christopher Hill has met his Chinese counterpart in Beijing after a trip to North Korea failed to stop the communist regime from restoring its nuclear facilities. Hill said in the South Korean capital Seoul on Friday that the talks in Pyongyang were "very substantive" but gave no further details. Last year, North Korea struck a deal at six-party talks with the US, China, South Korea, Japan and Russia to shut down its nuclear programme in return for fuel aid and its removal from a US terrorism blacklist. But last month, Pyongyang announced it had halted dismantling the Yongbyon nuclear plant in protest at Washington's refusal to drop it from the blacklist. | | | EU condenms PKK attack on southernTurkey
The European Union has condemned Friday's attack by Kurdish separatists on a military post in south eastern Turkey, that left 15 Turkish soldiers and 20 rebels dead. The EU's French presidency issued a statement saying it supports Turkey's battle against rebels of the Kurdistan Workers' Party or PKK, which the EU classifies as terrorists. PKK rebels based in Turkey and northern Iraq have been fighting for autonomy since 1984.
| | | Top al-Qaeda militant killed in Iraq: US military
The US military in Iraq says its forces have killed one of Al-Qaeda's most important leaders who was the mastermind of numerous bombings, kidnappings and executions in Baghdad. US officals say Mahir Ahmad Mahmud al-Zubaydi, also known as Abu Rami, was shot dead along with an unidentified woman in a Sunni district of Baghdad on Friday. Around 200 people were killed in November 2006 in one the largest car bomb attacks attributed to Abu Rami. He also killed a group of Russian diplomats that year. | | | German FM seeks end to elite forces' role in Afghanistan
German foreign minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier has called for the mandate of the elite KSK special forces in Afghanistan not to be renewed. In an interview with the Spiegel news magazine, Steinmeier said the special forces haven't been deployed even once in the past three years. Up to 100 special forces can be sent to Afghanistan at a time under Germany's role in the US-led Operation Enduring Freedom in that country. The mandate is due for renewal next month. Steinmeier said the clear focus of Germany's commitment in Afghanistan was its role in the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). | | | Data from 17 million T-Mobile customers stolen
Germany's Deutsche Telekom says personal information including phone numbers and addresses of some 17 million customers of its T-Mobile unit have been stolen. Deutsche Telekom says the information was stolen early in 2006. The company claims it had immediately reported the theft to state prosecutors in the city of Bonn as well as federal investigators. The newsmagazine der Spiegel said it brought the theft to the attention of the Interior Ministry in Berlin last week. | | | O.J. Simpson convicted of kidnap, robbery
Former US football star and actor O.J. Simpson has been found guilty on all 12 charges in his Las Vegas kidnapping and robbery trial. The 61-year-old Simpson and co-defendant Clarence Stewart face sentences of up to life in prison when they are sentenced in December. Prosecutors said that Simpson and five associates stormed into a room at a hotel in September 2007, brandishing guns, and took thousands of dollars in memorabilia from a pair of sports collectors. Defense lawyers had argued that Simpson went to the hotel only to retrieve personal mementos that were stolen from him. The verdict comes on the 13th anniversary of Simpson's controversial 1995 acquittal in the murder trial of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend. | | | | | |  | | |  Up-to-date news at DW-WORLD.DE | | | | | | |  | | | Note
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Telekom Says Data From 17 Million Customers Was Stolen
