Khmer Rouge murderer heldPHNOM PENH: Cambodian police today arrested Nguon Paet, the notorious Khmer Rouge commander wanted for the brutal murder of three western hostages four years ago.National police chief Hok Lundy said Paet had fallen into a trap set by police after being lured to the capital. The French foreign ministry today said it hoped that Paet ``would be quickly brought to justice in his country so that his responsibility in the affair, if confirmed, can be punished under the laws of the kingdom of Cambodia.''Paet is accused of ordering the murders of Australian David Wilson, Briton Mark Slater and Frenchman Jean-Michel Braquet after they were abuducted from a train bound for the southern port of Sihanoukville in July, 1994.UN-Taliban talksKABUL: Talks due to take place today between Afghanistan's Taliban movement and the United Nations about the return of aid agencies to the capital Kabul have been postponed, Taliban's chief negotiator said today.``The meeting is putoff temporarily as the head of the UN team for the talks has to go to Rome tomorrow. It will continue,'' Qari Deen Mohammad, the Afghan planning minister, told reporters.There was no immediate comment from the UN delegation, led by acting coordinator Bronek Szynalsky, which is mediating in the dispute. The United Nations had asked for talks to tackle a row between the Taliban and non-governmental aid agencies.Ex-spy arrestedLONDON: A former British intelligence agent wanted for allegedly divulging state secrets was arrested in France late yesterday, the British home office said. It said British authorities had asked their French counterparts to arrest David Shayler, who worked for five years for the British counter-intelligence service Mi5. His lawyer said Shayler, 32, had been arrested in Paris on an arrest warrant issued by a French judge. Shayler was served with an injunction last year ordering him not to breach Britain's official secrets act by disclosing any information he gained whileworking for Mi5.Korean floodsSEOUL: The South Korean military battled today to find survivors of flash floods which killed 20 people and left 71 missing. Flash floods swept away some 60 campers and vacationers on and around Mount Chiri in the south of the country on Friday and early Saturday, the Central Disaster Agency (CDA) said.Tuskers killedBEIJING: At least eight wild elephants have been killed by lightning in the tropical forests of southwestern China's Yunnan province. The bodies of the elephants were found in a nature reserve recently by local farmers in the Xishuangbanna autonomous prefecture. There were no traces of gunfire or poisoning and their tusks were intact, official reports said on Saturday adding however, there were, signs of lightning on the trees around the area.Uganda strifeKAMPALA: Fifteen people, including two Korean engineers and two Ugandan policemen, were among the dead after Ugandan rebels from the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) attacked amajor town in western Uganda, Ugandan sources said.
