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• KABUL / ATTACK VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Two rockets landed in the Afghan capital, Kabul, late Sunday. There has been no claim of responsibility for the attack, which caused no casualties and little damage:
• U-S AFGHAN VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- U-S military authorities in Afghanistan say they are reviewing what went wrong Saturday when two U-S Special Forces soldiers were killed in an ambush in southern Afghanistan. Coalition authorities say they have successfully concluded two large military offensives against in the southern and northeastern Afghanistan.

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• Be vigilant in FP measures, know locations of anti-war demonstrations USAFENS 30 Mar 2003 -- With the U.S. military engaged in combat operations with Operation Iraqi Freedom, anti-war protests are occurring throughout Europe and the world.

• JAPAN/NORTH KOREA VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Top Japanese government officials are discussing whether to increase the country's constitutionally limited military capability. The increasingly public debate is being sparked by fears of North Korean military development.

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Other Conflicts

• U.S. Committed to Iraq's Freedom, Middle East Peace Washington File 30 Mar 2003 -- Public attitudes toward the United States will change as the "dynamics" change in Iraq and in the Middle East peace process, Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a March 30 interview with the New York Times.
• POWELL-MIDEAST VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Secretary of State Colin Powell -- in a Middle East policy speech late Sunday -- called on Syria and Iran to end support for terrorist groups opposed to Israel and to the regional peace process. He reaffirmed the Bush administration's plans for the early release of the international "road map" for an Israeli-Palestinian peace accord.
• ISRAEL/BOMB-BLAST VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- A Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up today (Sunday) outside a café in Israel, wounding up to 30 people.

• NEPAL MAOISTS PEACE VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Nepal's government says it will begin talks with Maoist rebels this week to end seven-years of insurgency in the mountain kingdom. The rebels have been fighting to replace the country's constitutional monarchy with a communist republic.

News Reports

• Backgrounder-International Criminal Court VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Last month, eighteen judges were sworn in as members of the new International Criminal Court. The ceremonies took place March eleventh in the Dutch Parliament at The Hague.
• UNEP/DEPLETED URANIUM VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- The U-N Environment Program says it has found contamination from depleted uranium used to harden anti-tank weapons used by NATO forces during the 1994-95 war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. UNEP says the substance has contaminated local supplies of drinking water at one site, and can still be found in dust particles suspended in the air.
• SERBIA/RUSSIA VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Serbian police are considering issuing an international arrest warrant for the wife of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, who is wanted for questioning about the killing of a former Milosevic ally turned rival. Serbian authorities say Mirjana Markovic is currently in Russia.
• ZIMBABWE POLITICS VOA 30 Mar 2003 -- Diplomats observing parliamentary by-elections in two districts near Zimbabwe's capital say they have observed gross irregularities. Ruling-party youths patrolled near polling booths in open trucks.