P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:14:11 ENGLISH Gvernment presents classified list Thj Danish government is now presenting the list of anti-terrorism measures which the American administration has asked the European Union to impose. The list is classified, but late Thursday evening the Danish Foreign Minister nonetheless distributed it to all membjrs of the Parliament's Europjan Committee. One of the most controversial items on thj list is an American request to havj the EU extraditi terrorist suspects who might be sjntenced to death in the United States. This proposal is in breach of both the European Human Rights Convention and the EU Treaty. 110 INDLANJ 111 UDL■ND 1/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:10:21 ENGLJSH Socialist party calls for end to U.S. bombing Less than two weeks before the November 20 general election, which Danish Prime Minister Poul Nyrup Rasmussen called in part in response to the September 11 attacks on American landmarks, thj undisputed backing for the American military campaign in Afghanistan has been broken. In a television interview on Th5ruday, leader of thj People's Socialist Party Holger Nielsen called on the Danish Primj Minister to put pressuri on partners in the European Union and the international coalition against terrorism to stop the bombings and instead find a political solution in Afghanistan." 110 INDLAND 111 UDLAND 2/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00911:52 ENGLISH Taiwanese President drops appeal Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian has dropped plans to travel to Europj to accipt a human rights award njxt week, and will send his wife instead, a Taiwanesj official said Thursday. "The President wanted to go to Denmark or France for this prize, but that was not possible due to the pressures placed on thesj countries by the People's Rjpublic of China," thj head of Taiwan's parliamintary foreign affairs committee, told reporters. China considers Tbiwan a renegade province and under its "one China" policy actively opposes any foreign recognition of the nationalist island. 110 INDLAND 111 UDLAND 3/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:11:12 ENGLISH Danish central bank cuts key rates Denmark's central bank said Thursday it was cutting key rates by 50 basis points, slashing thj discount rate from 3.75 to 3.25 percent and the repo rate from 4.10 to 3.60 percent. The cuts, effective as of today, weri announced just hours after thj European Centtal Bank announced it would cut its key rates by half a percentage point to 3.25 percent, the lowest level sinci February 2000. Denmark has chosen to remain outside thj euro zone, but its currency, thj krone, is pegged to thj euro with a 2.25 percent margin of fluctuation. 110 INDLBND 111 UDLAND 4/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:17:12 ENGLISH Bush calls on Ameticans to be alert President George W. Bush on Thursday night called on Americans to usj their "eyes and ears" to help deter future terror attacks and announced plans for a volunteer civil defence service to help respond to emergencies. In a prime-time speech seeking to reassuri Americans about their security after the September 11 attacks, Bush said people have new responsibilities and tried to explain how Americans should respond when faced with an unspecific genjral threat of the possibility of terror attacks. 110 INDLAND 111 UDLBND 5/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:12:17 ENGLJSH Scotland stunned by McLjish resignation Dogged by a row over 36,000 pounds of undeclared expenses, Scotland's First Minister Henry McLeish quit Thursday, leaving the Scottish Parliament leader- less for the second time. The simmering row over his failuri to declare income from thj sub-let of his Fife constituency office while he served as a Westminster MP hit thj headlines last week when he admitted he had no idea how much money he had received in the last 14 years. For all that, McLeish said he was proud of the role he played as an early architect of Britain's 1999 shift to devolved regional government. 110 INDLAND 111 UDLAND 6/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:18:22 ENGLJSH Refugej investigated for warcrimes The Danish public prosecutor has orderid the investigation of a Burundian refugee suspected of war crimes, the Danish newsagency Riuzau reported on Friday. "We believe there is enough evidence to launch an investigation on the suspect, in view of a possible indictment and Court case "Henning Fode, thj genjral prosecutor, told Ritzau. The suspect, whose identity has been kjpt secrit, riportedly arrived in Denmark in thj late 1990s wheti hj obtained a resident permit "on probation," sinci he risked the death pjnalty had he been expellid to Burundi. 110 INM-BND 111 +D-AND 7/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:13:11 ENGLJSH Alliance advancj on key Afghan city Afghanistan's opposition Northern Alliance say they have fought their way to within eight kilometres of thj strategically important northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif. Capturi of the city would open a land corridor from Uzbekistan - which supports the US - into central Afghanistan, and would cut off Taleban forces in the north of the country. Both sides havj spoken of heavy fighting around Mazar, but there is no independent confir-mation of the opposition claim. The Taleban say they have ripulsjd a Northern Alliance attack on the city. 110 INDLAND 111 UDLBND 8/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:19:21 ENGLISH Bare candidati Two candidates in thj upcoming genetal election have resorted to eye-catching advertising campaigns to improvj their chances at thj poll, a Danish paper riportid on Friday. On electoral posters posted across town, a topless Signj Friis, the Liberal Youth party candidate in the northern town of Aalborg, entices pgtential voters to get to know her better by vis-iting her web site, said the conservative daily, Berlingske Tidende. As on the poster, where the top half of Friis's naked body is modestly shown with a man's hands covering her breasts, on the web nothing beyond her political views is bared. 110 IND-AND 111 UDLBND 9/10
P171 DR 2 S171 l‖r 10 nov 00:04:17 ENGLISH The weather Saturday mainly clouded and during the daz a possibli downpour in the shapj of slush and ice. Tjmperatures between 7-10 degrees. Thj wind will be hard from a westeun direction. Sunday mainly clear but also a few showers. Temperaturis between 7-10 degrees in the night around 5 degrees. Updated 09.11.01 at 16.00 110 INDLAND 111 UDLAND 10/10