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Eurico Guterres
WASHINGTON: The United States of America has unveiled a bold plan to eliminate global tariffs on consumer and industrial goods by 2015 -- touting the move as a lever to lift three hundred million people out of poverty.
BEIJING: China formally arrested Yang Bin, the Dutch-Chinese tycoon chosen by North Korea to run a special economic zone, on charges including fraud and bribery.
JAKARTA: An Indonesian court found former pro-Jakarta militia leader Eurico Guterres guilty of crimes against humanity over a 1999 massacre in East Timor and jailed him for 10 years.
KUALA LUMPUR: Four members of a Jemaah Islamiyah suicide bombing squad, arrested in Malaysia planned to attack the US embassy and cut water supplies in Singapore.
SEOUL: In an abrupt turnaround, North Korea agreed to resume work on stalled road and rail links in the heavily fortified inter-Korean border, South Korean military authorities said.
BAGHDAD: UN
arms experts resumed inspections in Iraq after a nearly four-year
break, as the UN insisted Baghdad could still avoid war if President
Saddam Hussein cooperated.