February 2001 World Headlines

Tuesday, February 6, 2001 - Web posted at 11:13:30 AM GMT

World News Summary

* DUBAI - Saudi Arabia will apply Islamic sharia law to three Westerners shown on television confessing to two bombings, despite any outside pressures in the case, the Saudi interior minister was quoted as saying.

* JAKARTA - Indonesia's Supreme Court rejected an appeal by prosecutors to retry former President Suharto for corruption, dashing efforts to account for decades of greed under the one-time autocrat.

* MANILA - Deposed Philippine leader Joseph Estrada asked the Supreme Court to stop an investigation into his alleged criminal offences, declaring immunity as president.

* TOKYO - Japan's unloved Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori faced a rough ride in parliament amid new signs of dissent in his ruling coalition and as the opposition vowed to dig deeper into a widening bribery scandal.

* LONDON - A group of 15 British soldiers who caught malaria in Sierra Leone are suing the Ministry of Defence for allegedly failing to issue vaccines against the disease early enough, their lawyer said.

* BHUJ, India - Indian authorities promised to erect tent cities for hundreds of thousands of homeless people in quake-shattered Gujarat state but many survivors were throwing caution to the wind and returning to their crumbling homes.

* GAZA - The Palestinian Islamic Jihad group vowed to attack targets in the Jewish state in the next few days after Israeli soldiers shot dead one of its bombers as he tried to infiltrate from the Gaza Strip.

* TUNCELI, Turkey - Kurdish separatist rebels called on Kurds everywhere to hold mass protests on February 15 to mark the second anniversary of Turkey's capture of guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan. - Nampa-Reuters

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