Berlin - Amnesty International appealed Monday to Germany and other European nations to provide homes to 50 detainees from the US detention centre at Guantanamo Bay.

Berlin - A senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, was in German custody in Frankfurt Monday after she was detained on arrival at Frankfurt international airport under an arrest warrant issued in France.

A spokeswoman for state prosecutors in Frankfurt handling the case said she had denied the two accusations of murder and membership in a terrorist association.

She has been wanted for questioning since November 2006 in connection with the April 6, 1994 killing of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana.

Kabuye, 47, is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

Rwanda broke off diplomatic relations with France after the warrant was issued by magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere.

Berlin - Germany faced a diplomatic row with Rwanda Monday after arresting a senior Rwandan official, Rose Kabuye, at Frankfurt international airport on an arrest warrant from France.

She has been wanted for questioning since last November in connection with the April 6, 1994 killing of Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana. She is chief of protocol to Rwandan President Paul Kagame and a leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front.

Rwanda broke off diplomatic relations with France after the warrant was issued by magistrate Jean-Louis Bruguiere.

Diplomatic sources in Berlin said Germany warned beforehand that it would arrest her if she travelled to Frankfurt.

Berlin - Riot police clashed with 700 protesters Sunday in the north of Germany as the anti-nuclear movement tried to disrupt a shipment of spent radioactive fuel to a long-term storage site.

Elsewhere, wiring and signal gear along German railway lines was set on fire. Though most of the attacks were anonymous, police said it was likely the sabotage was the work of anti-nuclear militants.

As during 10 previous shipments of waste to Gorleben, a small town south of Hamburg, protesters aimed to obstruct the freight train carrying the waste.

Berlin - Germany marked Sunday the sudden end of the Berlin Wall 19 years ago, with the former mayor of West Berlin, Walter Momper, recalling it as a "wonderful gift to the Germans."

The commemoration coincided with more sombre ceremonies marking Kristallnacht, the 1938 orgy of Nazi violence against Jews.

Momper, who was Berlin mayor from 1989 to 1991 and is now speaker of the state of Berlin legislature, said the date wrapped together both the peaceful revolution against communism in 1989 and the pogrom of 1938.

After weeks of protests, East German authorities suddenly announced on November 9, 1989, that their citizens could pass through the wall and visit the West at will.

Berlin - Germans cannot be indifferent to anti-Semitism, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday at a Berlin ceremony to recall a 1938 pogrom against Jewish residents of Germany.

"Indifference is the first step towards endangering essential values," Merkel said during Germany's national memorial ceremony at the old synagogue in Berlin's Rykestrasse.

"Germany needs a climate that encourages moral courage," Merkel said. "Xenophobia, racism and anti-Semitism must never be given an opportunity in Europe again."

She said this was just as true in Arab nations and in other parts of the world.