A round-up of today's other stories in brief
Accused war criminal dies
SEATTLE – Accused Nazi war criminal Peter Egner, who had been sought by Serbia on suspicion of war crimes committed as a transport guard on Auschwitz- bound death trains, died before he could be brought to trial next month in an attempt to revoke his US citizenship.
Mr Egner (88) died at a retirement home in Washington, a spokeswoman for the home said. – (Reuters)
Bolivian floods claim 31 lives
LA PAZ – Floodwaters swept away a bus and a truck as they crossed a swollen river in southern Bolivia, killing at least 31 people, police said yesterday.
Children were among those killed in the incident, which took place in a remote area some 200 km from the city of Sucre, the poor Andean nation’s constitutional capital.
The incident is believed to have happened on Friday. – (Reuters)
New challenge to Obama's health reform
MIAMI – A judge in Florida yesterday became the second US judge to declare President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law unconstitutional, in the biggest legal challenge yet to federal authority to enact the law. The ruling will be appealed the US justice department said.
District judge Roger Vinson ruled that the reform law’s so- called “individual mandate” went too far in requiring that Americans start buying health insurance in 2014 or pay a penalty. – (Reuters)