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Prabhakaran's aide killed • Major David, described as a close confident of Prabhakaran who Is the leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was killed by security forces in eastern Batticaloa Friday, reports Xinhua from Colombo.
David was the LTTE's political chief for Batticaloa and its chief agricultural instructor, reports reaching Colombo said Saturday.
The reports said that he was killed by the security forces while he was riding his motorcycle with a companion to attend a propaganda meeting.
David had been given military training abroad and played a key role tn rebel activities of the Li l t fighting to set up a separate state of minority Tamils in the north and east of the island country.
Caputo Ghali's special envoy: sec retary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali Friday named former Argentine Foreign Minister Dante Caputo as his special envoy to Hatti, the Untied Nations announced yesterday, reports AFP from UN.
Caputo, now a congressman, will arrive tn New York next week to meet with Boutros-Ghali ahead of his first mission, UN spokesman Joe Sills said.
Caputo, who served as foreign minister between 1983-89 and as president of the UN General Assembly in 1988. said in Argentina he was "personally honoured" by the appointment and that he would act as a mediator in Haiti.
3 beheaded in Saudi Arabia: a soudt woman, her daughter and a Saudi man were beheaded on Friday in two separate cases of murder and drug smuggling tn the conservative kingdom. Gulf news agencies said, reports Reuter from Dubai.
They quoted a Saudi Interior Ministry statement as saying Mutlak Al -Am rani was beheaded for smuggling drugs Into the
Aisha Al-Zuebl and her mother Noura were beheaded in the eastern province of Saudi Arabia for shooting dead Aisha's father while he was sleeping.
Under the strict sharia Islamic law in force in Saudi Arabia, rapists, murderers and drug traffickers are beheaded in public, while convicted thieves usually have their hands, amputated.
Algerian policeman shot dead:Gu nmen shot dead a police officer shopping at a market Friday, the first killing of a member of the security forces since a curfew took effect a week ago, reports AP from Algiers.
. The policeman was killed during daylight hours in Ben Zcrga. cast of the capital, one of the regions under a 10 pm to 5.30 am (2100 to 0430 GMT) nightly, curfew authorities said.
The gunmen were not identified, but suspicion fell on armed Islamic fundamentalists whose attacks have killed more than 250 police officers and soldiers over the past year.
Hie killing indicated that the fundamentalists retain the capability to carry out terror acts despite the curfew, aimed at breaking the armed Islamic opposition to the government .
French writer dead: Jacques perm, a writer who twisted the tongues of generations of students learning French, has died at the age of 91, his family announced Friday, reports AP from Paris.
The author reportedly died Thursday at a hospital in the Paris region. Cause of death and funeral arrangements were not disclosed.
Perret fought in the French army against Moroccan tribesmen In the 1920s and spent World War II as a prisoner of war. Inspiring his best-known work. “Le Caporal Epingle," or The Nabbed Corporal.
The novel nearly won France's prestigious Prix Goncourt in 1947, and was awarded the Grand Prix de la Ville de Paris in 1979. A film version was made in 1962.
10 killed in Bangkok road incidents: Over ten people were killed in road Incidents in Bangkok during the past two weeks, forcing the city's traffic police to tighten traffic law, reports Xinhua from Bangkok.
A chartered bus. carrying no passenger, went out of control and lammed Into a bus top near the city's northern bus terminal Friday afternoon, killing five pedestrians.
The incident came only one week after a fatal road incident occurred on December 3 in Bangkok, in which four young school children and a school van driver were killed. Those two major road incidents have forced the traffic police to enforce tighter laws tn the city, which has about a 6 million . population and about 2 million vehicles.