European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday april 1 2007 s tar s an d stripes Pace 13 in the world just dont Call him sir Bono becomes a Knight by Shawn Pogatchnik the associated press Dublin Ireland Irish Rock Star and global humanitarian Bono became a Knight of the Brit ish Empire thursday and joked that his youngest son thought he was about to become a Jedi instead Bono 46 was named a Knight commander of the most excellent order of the British Empire in an in formal laugh filled ceremony in the Dublin Bono Home of Brit ish ambassador David Reddaway you have permission to Call me anything you want except sir All right lord of lords your Demig Odness Thall he told reporters afterwards because he is an Irish citizen Bono wont have the title of sir before his name that Honor is re served for citizens of the United kingdom or British common wealth countries Ireland left the Commonwealth when it became a Republic in 1949 Reddaway paid tribute to Bonos work As a campaigner against poverty and disease in Africa but first asked whether he was disappointed that becoming a Knight no longer involves a sword or kneeling please i want expecting you to said Bono his hand on the ambassadors shoulder accompanying the Rocker were his wife a and their four children Jordan 17 eve 15 Elijah 7 and John 5 u2 guitarist the Edge and bassist Adam Clayton also attended Borio sported Lapel pins for two of his previous european govern ment awards the legion Don Neur from France and the order of Liberty from Portugal such official accolades really help me get through a few doors i  get through and that the truth that the Way the world he said official Calls to extend Putin second term Moscow a russian parliamentary Leader on Friday called for the Constitution to be amended to allow president Vladimir Putin to stay in office after his Sec Ond term ends a proposal that was quickly shot Down by the Kremlin but which reflects loom ing uncertainty Over next years presidential vote Sergei Mironovs comments also underscore what appears to be mounting pressure from some members of Putin inner Circle for him to stay on beyond the March 2008 election seen As a test of russian political system any change that permits Putin to stay on would be seen by the West As a further erosion of democracy imposes economic sanctions on China Washington the Bush administration facing heavy pres sure to Deal with soaring Trade deficits will impose economic sanctions against China As a Way of protecting american paper producers from unfair chinese government subsidies a Commerce department official said Friday the action will reverse 20 years of Trade policy by treat ing China which is classified As a no Market Economy in the same Way that other trading part ners Are treated in disputes involving government subsidies for fear of attack Iran withholds nuke info Vienna Austria Iran in a confidential letter posted Friday on an internal web site of the nuclear watchdog said its fear of attack from the and is Rael has prompted it to decide to withhold information from the Agency the International atomic Energy Agency the Monitor has in turn told Iran that it is defy ing the 35nation Board of the Agency with its move and urged it to reconsider both the iranian document and the confidential Iaea response were made Avail Able to the associated press Amazon tribes to get free internet Rio de Janeiro Brazil brazils government said it will provide free internet Access to native Indian tribes in the Amazon in an Effort to help protect the worlds biggest rain Forest the environment and communications ministers signed an agreement thursday with the Forest Peoples network to pro vide an internet signal by Satel Lite to 150 communities allowing them to report illegal logging and ranching request help and coordinate efforts to preserve the for est air plane Hijacker is arrested in Sudan Khartoum Sudan authorities arrested a Man armed with a knife who hijacked a Sudan airways plane Friday while flying from Libya to Sudan police said nobody was reported Hurt Dur ing the hijacking and the plane landed at Khartoum Airport with out being diverted the Hijacker appeared to be suffering from mental police said in a statement the Hijacker was travelling on a temporary travel permit from Tri poli the libyan from the associated press an image taken from iranian television Friday shows three seized Brit ish service person Nel at left a Serviceman whose name was Given in Farsi As Nathan Thomas Summers Faye Turney Center and a Man believed to be Adam Sperry British Marine apologizes on to captive says he is sorry for going into iranian Waters by Nasser Karimi the associated press Tehran of the 15 British service members held Cap Tive in Iran appeared Friday on state television and said he apologized deeply for entering Irani an Waters and the country re leased a third letter supposedly from the one woman in the Crew saying she has been sacrificed by Britain British prime minister Tony Blair whose government has insisted that its Navy personnel were captured in iraqi Waters immediately condemned Iran treatment of the captives saying it Doest fool in the video Friday Royal Marine Rifleman Nathan Thomas Summers was shown sitting with another Serviceman and the female British Sailor Faye Turney eur tells Iran to release seized troops x a 5 Bremen european Union on Friday personnel were not in iranian called on Iran to immediately were seized a and  release 15 after a British sailors and marines and warned of undefined appropriate measures if Tehran does not comply 4 a statement of from tie gather ered eur foreign ministers in Bremen Germany supported British Tony the mmasters also called on Iran in a statement to immedi atty Gewemr Wiere matits of the captives and Lve British dip Komats Access to j against a Pink Floral curtain both men wore camouflage fatigues with a Label saying Royal Navy on their chests and a Small British Flag stitched to their left sleeves Turney wore a Blue jumpsuit and a Black Headscarf we trespassed without Permis Summers said adding he knew that Iran had seized British military personnel who strayed into their Waters three years ago this happened Back in 2004 and our government said that it  happen sum mers said and again i deeply apologize for entering your wait was not known whether the Marine spoke under pressure from his captors but Summers said in the broadcast our treat ment has been very Britain criticized the broadcast and Iran treatment of the Cap Tives i really dont know Why the iranian regime keep doing this i mean All it does is enhance peo Ples sense of disgust captured personnel being paraded and manipulated in this Way Doest fool Blair said what the iranians have to realize is that if they continue in this Way they will face increasing Iran earlier broadcast a video showing Turney saying her team had trespassed in iranian Waters red Cross Calls fighting in Somalia capital worst in More than 15 years by Mohamed Olad Hassan the associated press Mogadishu Somalia insurgents shot a helicopter gun ship out of the sky Friday and mor tar shells slammed into a Hospital during the worst righting in this beleaguered capital in More than 15 years leaving corpses piled in the streets and sending hundreds of bloodied civilians streaming into hospitals at least 30 people and Likely Many More have been killed and hundreds wounded since thurs Day the violence came on the Sec Ond Day of an offensive by somali government troops and their ethiopian allies to quash an increasingly lethal insurgency the insurgents Are linked to the Council of islamic courts which was driven from Power in december by so Mali and ethiopian soldiers accompanied by special forces the exact number of casualties was unclear due to the chaos in the capital hospitals were Over whelmed and bodies were scattered in the crumbling streets the International committee of the red Cross said dozens of peo ple have been killed since thurs Day and More than 220 wounded most of them civilians with Bullet grenade and other shrapnel wounds the population of Mogadishu is caught up in the worst fighting in More than 15 the Agency said Somalia has not had an effective Central government since 1991 leaving much of this african nation in chaos islamic militants who now dominate the insurgency Stock piled thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition for the six months that they controlled Mogadishu the insurgency will Likely last until that stockpile is depleted or key leaders Are killed on Friday an associated press reporter saw an antiaircraft mis Sile hit an ethiopian helicopter that had been bombing insurgent positions Abdulkarim Farrah somali ambassador in Ethiopia said Friday that there was a problem in one helicopter but he did not confirm that it was shot Down he said officials were investigating