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A round-up of today's other stories in brief.

A round-up of today's other stories in brief.

Protesters storm UN base in Gaza

GAZA - Palestinian protesters stormed the main UN compound in Gaza City yesterday during a demonstration against Israel's bombing of Qana in southern Lebanon, witnesses and UN staff said.

Hundreds of members of the Islamic Jihad militant group, some throwing stones and others firing assault rifles, attacked the compound at the end of a rally, witnesses said.

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At least five people were wounded, police said.

UN staff were inside the compound at the time but managed to escape after UN guards let off tear gas canisters. - (Reuters)

Allen Carr has lung cancer

LONDON - Anti-smoking campaigner Allen Carr, who used to smoke 100 cigarettes a day, has been told he has lung cancer. Doctors have confirmed a preliminary diagnosis on the 73-year-old, whose Easyway system has sold millions of books and provides successful clinics in 30 countries.

Mr Carr, who kicked the habit 23 years ago, said he was in good spirits and determined to use his condition to help more people give up smoking. "Since I stopped all that time ago I have been the happiest man in the world - I still feel the same way," he said. - (Guardian service)

130 arrested at pro-Kurdish rally

DIYARBAKIR - Turkish police detained 130 people, most of them members of a pro-Kurdish political party, for holding an illegal meeting yesterday, police sources said.

Illegal publications and photographs of jailed Kurdistan Workers Party guerrilla leader Abdullah Ocalan were on display at the meeting in the southeastern city of Sanliurfa. - (Reuters)

War crimes sentence appeal

AMSTERDAM - UN chief prosecutor Carla del Ponte has appealed against the two-year sentence the UN war crimes tribunal gave a Bosnian Muslim wartime commander of Srebrenica.

Last month, the tribunal in The Hague found Naser Oric guilty of failing to prevent the murder of Serbs near Srebrenica early in the 1992-95 conflict. - (Reuters)