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D Thursday, October 29, 2009 METRO 11 METROWorld Venezuela: The country has confirmed the arrest of Colombian security agents who it said planned to destabilise the government, heightening tensions between the countries. Earlier this year, President Hugo Chavez (pictured) suspended relations and reduced trade over a Colombian plan to allow US troops to use seven of its bases. At the weekend, ten members of an amateur Colombian football team were murdered in Venezuela. Colombias security agency DAS denied it had sent agents, while the Colombian minister of foreign affairs, Jaime Bermudez, has called for an investigation into the murders. CHIna: Five Filipino transvestites went on trial in Shanghai, accused of leading men into taxis or hotel rooms, drugging them with chocolate and other foods laced with sleeping pills before robbing them of mobile phones, credit cards and a Rolex watch. The men, who used the cards to buy perfume and gold, expressed remorse for their victims, the Chinese government and their families. Iran: Dozens of relatives of prominent reformers and others detained after the countrys disputed presidential election gathered outside the prosecutors office in Tehran yesterday calling for their release. Family members held pictures of detainees, which include former deputy interior minister Mostafa Tajzadeh. There was no sign of police at the peaceful gathering. Thousands were arrested during street protests after the June 12 election, which the opposition say was rigged. More than 100 reformers, activists and journalists have been put on trial accused of causing post-election unrest. afgHanIstan: The brother of President Hamid Karzai has denied reports he has been in the pay of the CIA for the past eight years. Ahmed Wali Karzai described as absolutely ridiculous claims he was recruited by the US agency to help form an anti-insurgency paramilitary force and to meet Afghans loyal to the Taliban to try to get them to switch sides or lay down their arms. Mr Karzai (pictured), head of Kandahars provinical council, said he does work with civilian organisations from outside the country. The article in The New York Times cites current and former officials in Afghanistan as confirming the story. Chaos in court as ex-SS hitman is brought to trialBy david rising Boere at his trial yesterday Picture: AFP SELF-confessed Nazi hitman Heinrich Boere went on trial yesterday in the German city of Aachen, charged with the 1944 murders of three Dutch civil- ians in reprisal for partisan attacks. The 88-year-old, who lives near Aachen, was brought into the courtroom in a wheelchair. He faces spending the rest of his life in prison, if convicted of the killings of a bicycle-shop owner, a pharmacist and another civilian while part of an SS death squad codenamed Silbertanne. Protesters outside the court building held up black banners that read No peace for Nazi criminals and Dont forgive, Dont forget and jeers of Nazis Out! and Nazi pigs! broke out when two skinhead supporters of Boere entered the viewing gallery. The court was adjourned before the charges against him were read out to allow judges time to consider a defence motion to have prosecutor Ulrich Maass re- moved from the trial, after claims statements he made to the press called his objectivity into question. Boere admitted the killings to Dutch authorities when he was in captivity after the war. He was sen- tenced to death in the Netherlands in 1949, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. A German court refused to extradite him to the Netherlands in 1983 because at the time it had no provision to extradite its nationals and Boere is the son of a Dutch man and a German woman. In 2007, another court refused to make Boere serve his Dutch sentence in a German prison because he had been absent from his trial. PakIstan: A car bomb struck a busy market in the northwestern city of Peshawar yesterday, killing 91 people mostly women and children as visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pledged US support for the countrys campaign against Islamist militants. More than 200 people were wounded in the blast, which the government blamed on militants seeking to avenge an army offensive this month against al-Qaeda and Taliban in their border stronghold. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said the violence would not break his governments will to fight back. at the scene: shops burn in the aftermath of the bomb attack Picture: AFP index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html