AAP National News Wire Round-Up for Breakfast, April 13BREAKFAST ROUND-UP: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE AAP RTV FILE AT 0430
MIDEAST BOMB US (WASHINGTON)
US President GEORGE W. BUSH has condemned the latest suicide attack in Jerusalem thatkilled six people and injured 50.
But BUSH says he will not be deterred in the quest for Mideast peace.
White House spokesman ARI FLEISCHER says there are clearly people who want to disruptthe mission of Secretary of State COLIN POWELL.
POWELL has met Israeli Prime Minister ARIEL SHARON and is to meet Palestinian ChairmanYASSER ARAFAT later today.
The female suicide bomber, whom police have identified as a woman, was apparently boardinga bus near the crowded market on west Jerusalem's main commercial artery.
Reports say the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade, a militia linked to Palestinian leader YASSERARAFAT, has claimed responsibility.
An Israeli government spokesman says the suicide bomb blast in west Jerusalem is amessage of terror and death from the Palestinians to US Secretary of State COLIN POWELL.
In Other News In The Middle East:
The White House is demanding that YASSER ARAFAT condemn the latest suicide bombing in Jerusalem.
UN Secretary-General KOFI ANNAN condemns the latest suicide attack and calls for aninternational force to be deployed to stem violence between Israelis and Palestinians.
Hizbollah has fired rockets and mortars at Israeli military positions along the Lebaneseborder and Israel has responded with air strikes and a barrage of artillery fire.
The International Red Cross accuses Israel of humiliating and harassing aid workersin the West Bank.
The Israeli military says it's likely hundreds of Palestinians were killed in fightingthis week at the Jenin refugee camp, but it wasn't a massacre.
Iraq has delayed April talks with the United Nations on the return of arms inspectors,saying it wants to keep the world's focus on the Middle East crisis.
A telethon on Saudi state television has raised over $A150 million for the Palestiniansin one night.
VENEZUELA (WASHINGTON)
The United States has accused the Venezuelan government of ousted President HUGO CHAVEZof provoking his own demise by ordering CHAVEZ supporters to fire on peaceful demonstrators.
CHAVEZ was forced out of office yesterday by military leaders after protests in Caracasleft 15 people dead and 100 wounded.
While Venezuela is an important supplier of oil to the United States, CHAVEZ' anti-Americanrhetoric has increasingly angered the US government.
Meanwhile, Venezuelan police have also arrested the former interior minister.
And, CHAVEZ' daughter MARIA GABRIELA has told Cuban TV her father is the victim of a coup.
MCCABE DOCUMENTS (MELBOURNE)
Misconduct charges could be laid against the law firm acting for a tobacco companywhich destroyed incriminating documents on a dying smoker's case.
51-year-old ROLAH ANN MCCABE has been awarded $700,000 after suing the giant BritishAmerican Tobacco company over her illness.
The court found the company, under advice from its lawyers CLAYTON UTZ, destroyed documentsvital to the case.
Law Institute of Victoria chief executive JOHN CAIN has told the ABC there appearsto be enough evidence for CLAYTON UTZ to face investigation.
Meanwhile, experts say the Australian court's decision to award compensation to thedying smoker has the potential to open the floodgates of litigation worldwide.
BUGGING (SYDNEY)
A newspaper says the CARR government authorised a supergrass to secretly tape the conversationsof more than 100 serving and former police.
The Sydney Morning Herald says the warrant was taken out by a special Internal Affairsunit that worked with the New South Wales Crime Commission and also targeted a barristerand a journalist.
The document named some of the police service's most respected detectives, includingthe heads of three major Crime Agency squads.
The report says also named was a former top-ranking commander and a retired homicide detective.
Police Minister MICHAEL COSTA has asked for a full and urgent report from the PoliceCommissioner and Crime Commissioner.
The Herald report says lawyers and police are stunned by move and the warrant has sentshockwaves through the elite detective force.
Meanwhile, dealing with criticism over Police Commissioner PETER RYAN's early departure,Mr COSTA says he's willing to have the legality of the Commissioner's golden handshaketested in a court.
LIBERALS STONE (CANBERRA)
Federal Liberal Party president SHANE STONE opened the party's federal council withan attack on the media last night.
Mr STONE says political reporting in Australia is biased, out of touch and lacks intellectualrigour.
And Mr STONE says the media and the Labor Party are still challenging the legitimacyof the Howard government six months after the election.
MATERNITY (CANBERRA)
Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD's poured cold water on paid maternity leave laws, warningthey'll lead to massive job losses.
Mr HOWARD says paid maternity leave should not be forced on companies, because manywould be unable to afford the added burden.
Australian Democrats Leader NATASHA STOTT DESPOJA last week foreshadowed a privatemember's bill to introduce three months' paid maternity leave.
TIMOR GAP (CANBERRA)
A diplomatic spat has broken out between Australia and East Timor over oil and gasfields in the Timor Gap.
East Timor Chief Minister MARI ALKATIRI says Australia has committed an unfriendlyact towards his country.
He says Canberra has unilaterally withdrawn from negotiations in the InternationalCourt of Justice to resolve a dispute over maritime boundaries.
GRAVES FRANCE (PARIS)
France has moved to calm Australian anger over plans to build a new international airporton the site of World War I graves in and around the Somme.
Foreign Ministry spokesman FRANCOIS RIVASSEAU says France is sensitive to the emotionsin some countries whose soldiers fell on French soil.
RIVASSEAU says France is taking into account the necessity to preserve as best it canthe national and foreign cemeteries.
His comments come after Prime Minister JOHN HOWARD locked horns with French ambassadorPIERRE VIAUX after Mr VIAUX slammed a campaign against France's plans to build the airport.
BACKPACKER UK (LONDON)
The father of murdered British teenager CAROLINE STUTTLE says he will never get overthe death of his daughter who was killed in Queensland on Wednesday.
Police believe the 19-year-old was robbed and then thrown off the Burnett River Bridgein Bundaberg.
An autopsy has revealed that Ms STUTTLE died from severe head and spinal injuries andpolice believe she may have been stalked before the attack.
Distraught father ALAN, who is divorced from the backpacker's mother MARJORIE, sayshe can't believe she died for the sake of her handbag and mobile phone.
PUB (TOWNSVILLE)
A century of outback history lies in ruins after a massive blaze yesterday destroyedthe Longreach Club in Queensland.
The watering hole had been a popular meeting point for graziers in the state's westsince it was built in 1891.
The blaze also claimed the adjoining original booking office for Qantas in its early days.
Police say the fire's being treated as suspicious.
AND BRIEFLY . . .
A ferry has capsized on a river in eastern Tanzania, killing at least 37 people.
More than 100 people are feared dead or injured after a new earthquake struck northernAfghanistan -- just weeks after hundreds died in a quake there.
The Mayor of Ballarat has appealed for public help to find those responsible for vandalisingseveral historic 1884 marble statues in the central Victorian city on Thursday night.
AND IN SPORTS . . .
NBL FINALS (Adelaide)
The Adelaide 36ers have won the opening game of the National Basketball League grandfinal series against West Sydney 106-97.
Adelaide guard WILLIE FARLEY top scored with 34 while West Sydney's best shooter wasSIMON DWIGHT with 28.
Game two will be in Sydney on Sunday.
AFL BLUES (MELBOURNE)
Carlton has reacted to a week of criticism with an outstanding performance in the wetto win its AFL match against Collingwood by 20 points at the MCG.
LEAGUE ROOSTERS (SYDNEY)
ANDREW JOHNS has ensured Newcastle maintained its unbeaten start to the National RugbyLeague season with a 28-12 win over the Sydney Roosters at Aussie Stadium.
SWIM AGE NATIONALS (SYDNEY)
Star teenage swimmer LEISEL JONES has smashed the Australian 50 and 100 metre breaststrokerecords at the National Age titles in Sydney.
JONES clocked 31.66 seconds to break the 50m breaststroke record on her way throughto win the 100m 16 years breaststroke in 1:07.31.
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