& çâÌæÚUæð´ ·¤è ¥ôÚU Îð¹Ùæ ÁæÚUè ÚU¹ð´ ¥ÍæüÌ ¥ÂÙð ÜÿØ ÂÚU ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´Ð ãæÚU Ù ×æÙð´, €UØô´ç·¤ ·¤æ× ·¤ÚUÙð âð ¥æÂ·¤ô ©gðàØ ·¤è Âýæç# ãôÌè ãñ ¥õÚU ÁèßÙ ·¤æ ¹æÜèÂÙ ÎêÚU ãôÌæ ãñÐ ÖÜð ãè ÁèßÙ ×ð´ ç·¤ÌÙè Öè ·¤çÆÙæ§ü €UØô´ Ù ¥æ°, çÁ™ææâæ ¥õÚU ©ˆâæã ÕÙæ° ÚU¹ð´Ð ŠØæÙ ÚU¹ð´, ÜÿØ ã×ðàææ ¥æÂ·Ô¤ Âæâ ãôÌð ãñ´ çÁ‹ãð´ ÂæÙð ·Ô¤ çÜ° ÂýØæâ ¥æÂ ·¤Öè Öè àæéM¤ ·¤ÚU â·¤Ìð ãñ´Ð

BRIEFLY
Drug trafficker held in Mexico: Mexican police and army units have arrested a powerful drug trafficker who was wanted in connection with the May 1993 slaying of a Roman Catholic cardinal, authorities said on Saturday, Reuter reports from Mexico City.
Hector Luis Palma Salazar, known as "El Cuero Palma"', was arrested.on Friday in the western state of Jalisco, the attorney general's office said.
Wanted Mafia boss held in Italy: Police said on Saturday they had arrested suspected Mana boss Leoluca Bagarella, one of Italy's most wanted men, Reuter reports from Rome.
Police from the Elite Dia anti Mafia Squad arrested 53-year old Bagarella, reputed to be a leader of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra crime empire, as he drove unaccompanied through the island's capital Palermo on Saturday evening.
Train crash claims 17 in Prague: Seventeen people were killed and six seriously injured Saturday in a train crash about 60 kilometres (40 rpiles) southeast of Prague, CTK news agency reported, AFP Says from Prague.
According to a railway official quoted by the Czech news agency, a single-carriage passenger train collided in the late afternoon with three loose wagons detached from a goods train for reasons as yet unexplained.
Gambian minister found dead: Gambian Finance Minister Ousman Koto Ceesay was found dead in his burned-out car on Saturday, his family said, Reuter reports from Banjul.
They said police had found his Mercedes Benz car with his body inside but it was not yet clear what had happened.
15 die as jet crashes in Lagos: ""Fifteen people were killed on Saturday when an airliner crashed as it landed at Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos, Nigerian state television reported, Reuter says from
t le aircraft with about 80 passengers on board was on an internal flight from the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna.
Chinese team cancels Sweden trip: Chinese politicians cancelled a Saturday visit to a northern Swedish town after learning they would be questioned about China's treatment of orphan girls, AP reports from Stockholm.
The delegation, led by Vice Premier Li Lanqing, was to visit the mining town of Kiruna, 900 kilometres (570 miles) ■"north of Stockholm. They were hoping to expand on contacts with the Swedish mining company LKAB.
West urged to drop Rushdie issue: The death edict against British writer Salman Rushdie cannot be revoked, and Western leaders should distance themselves from the author, an Iranian parliamentary leader said, AP reports from Nicosia.
"A learned clergyman has expressed his views about The Satanic Verses' and its author. This is a view that almost all clergymen and Muslims worldwide hold and respect," Mohammad Javad Larijani a former foreign ministry official, said in an interview published Saturday in the Iranian newspaper Kayhan.
Chinese PM arrives in Moscow: Chinese Prime Minister Li Peng arrived in Moscow yesterday for a four-day visit, part of a gradual thaw in the once-frosty ties between the two huge neighbours; Reuter reports from Moscow.
Li. who was greeted at Moscow Airport by Russian Prime .Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, is expected to meet President Boris Yeltsin, who has said he plans to visit China this year.
1 killed in Taiwanese quake: a strong earthquake jolted Taiwan Sunday, sending down rocks that killed a woman and injured three other people as their car drove through a,mountainous area, AP reports from Taipei.
Police said five houses in Sanhsia in suburban Taipei tilted about 15 degrees in the quake, but no one there was injured. The Central Weather Bureau said the quake had a preliminary magnitude of 6.5,.the strongest to this island this year The tremor, at 2:59 pm (0659 GMT), was centred in a mountainous area,-20.5 kilometers (12.7 miles) south of Ilan in eastern Taiwan.
US launches new N-sub: -n^umted States has launched the new generation of attack-class nu clear submarine, inaugurating its Seawolf model in Groton on the construction site of general dynamics, AFP repons from Groton, Connecticut.
The 188-metre (353-footl Seawolf, which cost two billion dollars to develop and build and which was launched Saturday, s the first new attack submarine to be developed for 30 years
Peacekeeper shot dead in Bosnia: A British peacekeeper died of gunshot wounds in Vitez, in central Bosnia on Saturday, a British army press officer said. AFP reports from Sarajevo.
The man who has not been named, was fatally shot at the British UN peacekeepers' base in Vitez, said spokeswoman Fiona Devine
Ex-‘Knight Ridder’ chairman dies: James K Batten, who dedicated his life to US newspapers and became one of the country's foremost news executives, has died from brain cancer. He was 59, AP reports from Mi-
He was taken off life support systems Saturday and died surrounded by family, Knignt-Ridaer spokeswoman Lee Ann Schlatter said. Batten.whoioined Knight Ridder Inc in 1957 as a fledgling reporter at The Charlotte Observer in North Carolina and became the media giant's chairman 32 years later, was diagnosed with cancer last year
Israeli troops kill ^rab: Israeli soldiers shot dead an Arab demonstrator yesterday durmg protests in the occupied West Bank for the release of Palestinian prisoners, witnesses said, Reuter reports from West Bank
A Reuters television cameraman at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus filmed the body of Shadi Azam, from Burka village Witnesses said he had been shot in the head by soldiers.