European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 17, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pace 14 s tars an d stripes saturday March 17 2007 Japan sceptical about us move on n Korea Tokyo Japan reacted cautiously to a us move that could ease financial restraints on communist North Korea saying thursday it was unlikely to Trig Ger major breakthroughs in the International dispute Over Gyongy Angs nuclear weapons program i do not think this will Lead to any sudden change in direction chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said the us Treasury department on wednesday wrapped up an investigation of a Macau Bank that the United states accused of help ing North Korea launder Money from counterfeiting and other Ille Gal activities the us action could open the door for overseas regulators to re lease some of the million in korean assets held by Banco Delta Asia the United states had promised to resolve the Case this month As part of International efforts to Roll Back the communist regimes nuclear weapons pro Gram Russia Greece Bulgaria sign Oil pipeline pact Athens Greece Russia Greece and Bulgaria signed a Deal thursday to build a 175mile pipeline to transport russian Oil to a port in Northern Greece the pipeline from Bulgaria Black sea port of Burgas will transport crude to the port of Al sex Andropolis the project will improve networks in Southeast Ern Europe that transport Oil and Gas from the Caspian sea Region to the european Union Zimbabwe West fueling opposition to regime Harare bwe accused Western govern ments of supporting an opposition it insists is fomenting violence and awaited the arrival thursday of an african mediator after the nations political and economic crises saw an upsurge in violence main opposition Leader Morgan tvs Angira and scores of other activists were injured As police cracked Down on a weekend opposition meeting one activist was shot dead sunday thursday to Vangi Rai 54 was awaiting the re sults of a brain scan after doctors reported they suspected a Skull fracture brain injury and inter Nal bleeding Wii French resistance hero Aubac Dies at 94 Paris Lucie Aubac a hero of the French resistance who helped free her husband from the Gestapo and whose dramatic life Story became a hit film has died she was 94 Aubac whose Maiden name was Lucie Bernard died wednes Day in a Hospital in the Paris sub Urb of Essyle Moulineaux said her daughter Catherine Vallade born on june 29 1912 in the Centra Eastern City of Macon Aubac was working As a history and geography teacher when she and her husband jewish Engi Neer Raymond Samuel helped create liberation Sud one of the first networks for the resistance fighting against the nazi occupation of France she received the legion of Honor Frances highest award for her work in the resistance from the associated press suicide fire up in by Alisa Tang the associated press Kabul Afghanistan one woman committed suicide by setting herself ablaze after her father inlaw tried to rape her another set herself on fire because her Brothers would not let her marry preferring that she remain their servant at Home yet another told her Mother before she died that her Hus band beat her daily testimony gathered by the afghan inde pendent human rights commission Docu ments How life for Many afghan women re Mains so Bleak that some choose a horrific and painful death instead the group interviewed about 800 afghans whose Sisters daughters and Daugh ters inlaw have killed themselves by Selim Moltion to escape Domestic abuse forced marriage and other social customs the report and anecdotal evidence from other rights workers suggests the phenomenon is growing with desperate women some times mimicking what they have seen reported on to its really a big problem in Afghanistan said Nabila Wafiq a researcher for the Aid group Medica Mondale which has inter viewed women who survived their self Immo lation attempts when we asked most people Why they committed self immolation they said that when they take pills they dont die but when they commit self immolation they be Lieve they will die 100 percent reports from Herat in Western Afghani Stan show about 90 women set fire to them selves last year there and More than 70 per cent died Afghanistan poor health system can do Little for the badly burned the commission report released last week covers bad his Herat Farah Nimrod and Kandahar provinces that Media and other re ports suggest Are the worst affected however women rights advocates suspect that Selim Moltion is a nationwide problem the study indicates a marked increase in re ported cases in two of the provinces two years ago in Farah province there were 15 cases of self immolation reported that figure had jumped to 36 in the first six months of last year the commission found Kandahar prov Ince had 74 cases two years ago and 77 cases in the first six months of this past year the statistics were recorded according to Afghanistan Calendar year 1385 which ends 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