News of the Day From Around the World
An avalanche struck in the Italian Alps on Saturday, killing six backcountry skiers as others looked on in horror as a swath of snow hundreds of yards wide cascaded down.
Helicopters ferried survivors and victims back to the valley floor from the avalanche site, located just below Monte Nevoso’s 11,017-foot peak.
The Turkish military carried out air strikes this week against Kurdish rebel targets across the border in northern Iraq, killing at least 67 militants, Turkey’s state-run news agency reported Saturday.
Anadolu Agency, citing unnamed security sources, said the strikes Wednesday destroyed ammunition depots, bunkers and shelters belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK.
Turkey’s jets have frequently bombed PKK sites in northern Iraq since July, when a fragile peace process between the government and rebels collapsed.
3 Bomb attack: A suspected member of an Irish Republican Army splinter group was charged Saturday with trying to kill a Northern Ireland prison officer by placing a booby-trap bomb under his vehicle.
Dozens of armed riot police were deployed inside Belfast Magistrates Court to control a rowdy crowd supporting Christopher Robinson, 45, who offered no plea to two charges of attempted murder and possession of a homemade bomb.
Robinson was arrested following the March 4 attack on the officer, who was seriously wounded.
Israel struck at Hamas military bases in the Gaza Strip, killing a 10-year-old boy and his 6-year-old sister, a Palestinian official said Saturday.
The air strikes came after Palestinian militants fired rockets toward Israeli border communities late Friday.
The official residence of the Ceausescu family has been opened to the Romanian public 26 years since the hated pair were overthrown.
The palace is decorated with marble and gilded features in the ostentatious style fashionable at the time.