News in Brief

Date: 02 April 2016 - 20:55

News ID: ۲۵۱۰۷

BRUSSELS (AP) — The Latest on attacks in Brussels and Paris (all times local):
A Belgian Federal Police spokesman says reinforced security measures will be in effect when limited passenger service goes into effect Sunday at Brussels Airport.
The airport has been closed since the March 22 suicide bombings that killed 16 victims at the airport and another 16 in the Brussels subway.
Police spokesman Michael Jonniaux says Saturday that the new security measures will include spot checks of vehicles arriving at the airport, and new controls on people and baggage before they are allowed to enter the airport terminal.
He says both people and baggage will be scanned before they can go into the building. He also says travelers’ IDs and travel documents will also be checked to make sure they match.
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IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on the migrant and refugee influx in Europe (all times local):
Austria’s defense minister says his country will deploy soldiers at a key Alpine pass to stop migrants arriving from Italy.
Hans Peter Doskozil told German daily Die Welt that the move anticipates a shift in migrant flows from the Turkey-Greece route to the central Mediterranean.
In an interview published Saturday, the newspaper quotes Doskozil saying that the military can provide "considerable support to border security” at the Brenner pass.
He also proposed that the European Union should deploy a civilian-military mission to support the bloc’s border agency Frontex.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Hundreds of protesters marched in Haiti’s capital on Friday to demand justice following the brutal killings of three deaf women who were tortured, stoned and left in a gully by attackers.
Mickelson Jean, leader of a Haitian association for the deaf, was one of roughly 300 people who marched in Port-au-Prince to call attention to the recent slayings. The women lived in the coastal village of Leveque where scores of homes are reserved for deaf people and their families.
"These murders are an act of absolute barbarism and we must have justice,” Jean said.
The three women were killed as they were trying to return home by foot late at night because a bridge had collapsed, preventing public transport from Haiti’s capital. They all worked as street vendors and went into Port-au-Prince that day to stock up on supplies.
TRIPOLI (Dispatches) - Ten Libyan cities controlled by a self-declared authority in Tripoli have pledged their support to the UN-backed unity government of the country, which has moved into the capital.
The announcement was made in a statement published on Thursday on the official Facebook page of the municipality of the northwestern city of Sabratha.
It came following a meeting between representatives from the 10 coastal cities located between Tripoli and the border with Tunisia.
The statement welcomed the arrival of the members of Libya’s UN-backed government to Tripoli and urged all Libyan citizens to "support the national unity government.”
It further called on Libya’s internationally-recognized administration to "put an immediate end to all armed conflicts across Libya.”