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15 Turkish Kurds killed in N Iraq: An Iraqi Kurdish group has killed 15 more Turkish Kurdish rebels in fighting in northern Iraq, the group’s radio said Tuesday. AP reports from Ankara.
The radio station of the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or KDP, which was monitored by Turkey's Anatolia news agency, said the fighting took place near the Turkish-Iraqi border area. Twelve other rebels were injured in the clashes.
3 hostages freed in Chechnya: a special security unit in Chechnya freed three hostages and arrested three suspects as part of a battle against kidnappings in the lawless southern republic, a Russian news agency reported Tuesday, AP reports from Moscow.
The three hostages were from the neighbouring republic of Dagestan and had been held for months by kidnappers seeking ransom, Magomed Magomatov, head of an anti-kidnapping unit recently appointed in Chechnya, told the Interfax news agency. The unit still has plenty of work left — at least 93 hostages remain, including 16 Russians and several foreigners. Chechen officials said.
Drug courier held in Philippines: A suspected Chinese drug courier, out on bail on illegal drug possession charges, has been arrested again after he sold drugs to a police agent in a sting operation, police said Tuesday, AP reports from Manila.
Police anti-narcotics chief Reynaldo Acop said Young Fung Yuen was arrested last Thursday near his house in an upscale neighbourhood in Paranaque. a Manila suburb. Acop said Young, who has been living in the Philippines for 10 years, is believed to be a drug courier for a Hong Kong-based drug syndicate. His passport was issued in Hong Kong last February. Acop said.
Floods kill 10 in Sri Lanka: At least 10 people have been killed and thousands made homeless in floods and landslides following torrential rains in most parts of Srl Lanka In the past two days, government officials said yesterday, Reuter reports from Colombo.
Six people died when their houses were swept away by landslides at Dehiowita in the southern Ratnapura district, officials of the social service department sajd. Four others were killed in landslides in Avissawela and Yatiyantota. also In Ratnapura district, the officials added.
9 die as boat sinks in Spain: uP to people drowned and around 25 were missing after a motorboat cartying Illegal immigrant sank off Tarlfa in southern Spain on Tuesday, a British Royal navy spokesman said, AFP reports from Tarlfa.
A Spanish Red Cross boat and pleasure boats in the area rescued around six people, while four bodies were pulled from the sea. local authorities said. A British Royal Navy spokesman, which assisted with two patrol boats and a destroyer, later revised the figure of survivors down to five, but said nine bodies had been plucked from the sea.
AFs ex-reporter Oatis dead: William N Oatis. an Associated Press reporter who was forced by Czechoslovakia to confess to espionage and was imprisoned for two years during the early days of the Cold War, died Tuesday. He was 83. AP reports from New York.
Oatis. who went on to cover the United Nations for three decades and retired in 1984 after a 47-year career at the AP. died at Long Island College Hospital after a long Illness, his son Jonathan said. Oatis was the AP's Prague bureau chief when he was arrested in May 1951 and sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Communist court.