February 2001 World Headlines

Monday, February 5, 2001 - Web posted at 9:43:15 AM GMT

World News Summary

KAMPALA - Three people were killed and 30 others injured when a vehicle was driven, apparently deliberately, into a crowd of supporters of a candidates in Uganda's presidential elections, police said.

* BACHCHAU, India - A teenager has been pulled unscathed from a well eight days after India's devastating earthquake killed up to 30 000 people, witnesses said.

* HAVANA - A senior Czech official failed to win the release of two prominent compatriots arrested in Cuba for meeting Cuban dissidents and was heading home on Saturday night after lengthy talks with President Fidel Castro.

* JAKARTA - Thousands of members of Indonesia's largest Muslim group rallied in support of floundering President Abdurrahman Wahid, as the group warned it might lose control of its members.

* ACCRA - The United States is to give two naval vessels to the Ghanaian navy and offer manpower training to a battalion of Ghanaian troops due to leave for peacekeeping duties in Sierra Leone, a US embassy official said.

* MOSCOW - US aid worker Kenneth Gluck, seized in Checnhya last month by masked gunmen, has been released, Itar-Tass news agency quoted Russia's domestic security service as saying.

* LONDON - Britain and Italy have agreed urgent new measures to curb the smuggling of illegal immigrants into western Europe through the Balkans, the two countries' leaders said.

* COLOMBO - Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga raised hopes for peace in her war-torn country by saying Tamil rebels had apparently responded favourably to her government's invitation to negotiate.

* BOGOTA, Colombia - Colombian President Andres Pastrana made a surprise trip to a guerrilla enclave shortly after he agreed to meet the country's top rebel boss next week to revive two-year-old peace talks.

- Nampa-Reuters

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