NO MOVEMENT: Legislators spent the day haggling over a deal that would have broken the impasse over the KMT's amendment to the election body, but to no avail
By Shih Hsiu-chuan
The legislature was yesterday once again prevented from reviewing the government's budget for this fiscal year because of the simmering dispute between the pan-blue and pan-green camps over the amendment to the Organic Law of the Central Election Commission (CEC) (中央選舉委員會組織法).

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's government vowed to silence dissent on Wednesday, defying international outrage over an assault which left the opposition leader with a possibly fractured skull.

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IT WAS ME: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his US captors that he was responsible for dozens of terrorist attacks during a review tribunal at Guantanamo Bay prison camp
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed cemented his position as al-Qaeda's most ambitious operational planner when he confessed in a US military tribunal to planning and supporting 31 terrorist attacks, topped by the Sept. 11 attacks, that have killed thousands of people since the early 1990s.

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Bomb deaths have gone down 30 percent in Baghdad since the US-led security crackdown began a month ago. Execution-style slayings are down by nearly half.

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By Ko Shu-ling
President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) announced yesterday that compulsory military service would be reduced from 16 months to 14 months, starting on July 1.

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