Other world news in brief
Driver injures 10 in Jerusalem 'terror' attack
JERUSALEM -A car slammed into a crowd in central Jerusalem late yesterday, injuring 10 in what police described as a "terrorist" attack, before the Arab driver was shot dead, an Israeli police spokesman and medics said.
One of those struck by the car was seriously injured, a spokesman for the Magen David Adom ambulance service said of the incident at Kikar Tzahal - Israel Defence Forces Square - which overlooks to the Old City of Jerusalem. It was not clear who shot the driver. One Israeli television report said he was killed by a bystander. - ( Reuters)
Refugees flee fighting in DRC
NORTH KIVU -Weeks of heavy fighting between the army and Tutsi rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's North Kivu province has forced 100,000 from their homes, the United Nations has said.
Congolese forces and rebels led by renegade Tutsi Gen Laurent Nkunda started their latest bout of fighting in late August when a January peace deal aimed at ending more than a decade of violence collapsed.
The UN and other international mediators have called upon all sides to return to talks. However, fighting continued yesterday as the army blasted Gen Nkunda's hilltop positions. - (Reuters)
Eurostar nearly back to 100%
LONDON- Eurostar trains will be running from St Pancras at "nearly 100% capacity" by the end of the week, Eurotunnel has said.
Eurotunnel hopes to reopen the first of three 10½-mile sections of track in the north tunnel today and it hopes a second section will be open by tomorrow.
The final 10-mile section, most badly damaged by the fire on September 11th, is still under investigation. - (PA)
Typhoon Hagupit gaining strength
MANILA- Sea travel in the northern Philippines has been suspended and authorities are braced for possible landslides and flooding as Typhoon Hagupit gathered strength.
A category 3 warning was raised across six northern provinces on the island of Luzon early yesterday.
- (Reuters)
Police wait to question man
PENZANCE- Police are waiting at a hospital to interview a man in connection with a shooting in which a man died and his wife was injured.
The man (23) suffered self-inflicted facial wounds in the incident at a house in the Cornish hamlet of Porth Kea on Saturday night and was taken to hospital.
Adam Hustler (41) died in the Royal Cornwall Hospital of gunshot injuries. His wife, Amanda, was shot twice and was taken to the same hospital before being transferred to hospital in Plymouth. - ( PA)
Rescue of German couple in Somalia
BOSASSO- Somali police attacked a kidnappers' hideout yesterday to release a German man and his wife.
The pair had been taken at gunpoint on Saturday and held in a hilly region east of Bosasso, the main port of the northern Somali region of Puntland. Police said one of the kidnappers was injured by gunfire. - ( Reuters)