News in Brief
AGALAWATTE, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Sri Lanka has appealed for outside help as the death toll from floods and mudslides Saturday rose to 100 with 99 others missing.
The Disaster Management Center said more than 2,900 people have been displaced. The military used large armored vehicles and boats to transport people to safety. But some remained trapped in interior villages where boats have been unable to reach. The Sri Lankan government appealed to the UN and other countries for help with rescue and relief measures.
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RABAT (Dispatches) -- Clashes erupted in a northern Moroccan city after authorities sought to arrest a well-known activist who has led recent anti-government demonstrations and who interrupted a Friday prayer sermon, activists and local residents said.
Political protests are rare in Morocco, but tensions in Al-Hoceima city have been simmering since October 2016 after the death of a fishmonger who was crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to retrieve fish confiscated by the police. His death sparked outrage against "Hogra," a colloquial Derja Arabic term for deprivation of dignity because of official abuses or corruption, and prompted some of the largest protests since Arab Spring-inspired demonstrations in 2011.
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SRINIGAR, India (Dispatches) -- Six suspected militants were killed Saturday in Indian-administered Kashmir along the heavily militarized border that divides the disputed territory with Pakistan, the Indian army said.
Indian army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said the armed militants had snuck into the Indian side from across the line of control -- the de-facto border between the two countries -- when soldiers intercepted them, triggering a gunfight.
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KATHMANDU (AFP) -- A cargo plane crashed Saturday as it was trying to land at a small airport near Mount Everest, seriously injuring the two pilots and hostess on board, officials said.
All three crew members were pulled alive from the wreckage of the plane, which broke into three pieces when it crashed as it was attempting to land at Lukla airport in heavy fog. Local media reported that the three crew members were in a serious condition.
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THE HAGUE (AFP) -- At least three of 19 people who were allegedly fathered by a now-deceased Dutch doctor through IVF treatment came from a different sperm bank than one until now named in reports, a Dutch newspaper said Saturday.
In a widening scandal, Dutch daily tabloid Algemeen Dagblad said a DNA comparison between a legitimate child of doctor Jan Karbaat and three of 19 children suspected to have been sired by him through IVF treatment, came from Rotterdam's Zuider hospital. Until now, Karbaat -- who died last month -- is suspected of using his own sperm to inseminate women instead of that of a chosen donor at a different fertility clinic in the town of Barendrecht just outside Europe's largest port city.
The Disaster Management Center said more than 2,900 people have been displaced. The military used large armored vehicles and boats to transport people to safety. But some remained trapped in interior villages where boats have been unable to reach. The Sri Lankan government appealed to the UN and other countries for help with rescue and relief measures.
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RABAT (Dispatches) -- Clashes erupted in a northern Moroccan city after authorities sought to arrest a well-known activist who has led recent anti-government demonstrations and who interrupted a Friday prayer sermon, activists and local residents said.
Political protests are rare in Morocco, but tensions in Al-Hoceima city have been simmering since October 2016 after the death of a fishmonger who was crushed inside a garbage truck while trying to retrieve fish confiscated by the police. His death sparked outrage against "Hogra," a colloquial Derja Arabic term for deprivation of dignity because of official abuses or corruption, and prompted some of the largest protests since Arab Spring-inspired demonstrations in 2011.
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SRINIGAR, India (Dispatches) -- Six suspected militants were killed Saturday in Indian-administered Kashmir along the heavily militarized border that divides the disputed territory with Pakistan, the Indian army said.
Indian army spokesman Colonel Rajesh Kalia said the armed militants had snuck into the Indian side from across the line of control -- the de-facto border between the two countries -- when soldiers intercepted them, triggering a gunfight.
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KATHMANDU (AFP) -- A cargo plane crashed Saturday as it was trying to land at a small airport near Mount Everest, seriously injuring the two pilots and hostess on board, officials said.
All three crew members were pulled alive from the wreckage of the plane, which broke into three pieces when it crashed as it was attempting to land at Lukla airport in heavy fog. Local media reported that the three crew members were in a serious condition.
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THE HAGUE (AFP) -- At least three of 19 people who were allegedly fathered by a now-deceased Dutch doctor through IVF treatment came from a different sperm bank than one until now named in reports, a Dutch newspaper said Saturday.
In a widening scandal, Dutch daily tabloid Algemeen Dagblad said a DNA comparison between a legitimate child of doctor Jan Karbaat and three of 19 children suspected to have been sired by him through IVF treatment, came from Rotterdam's Zuider hospital. Until now, Karbaat -- who died last month -- is suspected of using his own sperm to inseminate women instead of that of a chosen donor at a different fertility clinic in the town of Barendrecht just outside Europe's largest port city.