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Stay lifted on deportation of alleged Nazi
WASHINGTON – A US immigration judge yesterday lifted the stay of deportation for accused Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk, who faces charges in Germany in the deaths of 29,000 Jews.
Although he lifted the stay effective tomorrow, the judge also ruled that lawyers for the 89-year-old retired Ohio carworker should have filed the request to reopen his case with the US board of immigration appeals instead. – (Reuters)
Candidate rejects ‘extremist’ Iran
TEHRAN – Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s main moderate challenger in the June presidential vote said yesterday he would adopt a conciliatory foreign policy towards the West unlike his “extremist” opponent.
“Our country was harmed because of extremist policies adopted in the last three years . . . My foreign policy with all countries will be one of detente,” Mirhossein Mousavi said. – (Reuters)
Body found in Channel tunnel
PARIS – The body of a young man trying to enter Britain by stowing away on a train has been discovered in the Channel tunnel.
Maintenance workers found the man, believed to be an Ethiopian refugee in his early 20s, early on Sunday morning 8km from Calais.
He was not carrying identification papers. Police said he had probably tumbled from one of the trains that take passengers and freight into southeast England. – (Guardian service)
Seven killed in India bomb blasts
GUWAHATI – Two bomb blasts killed seven in India’s troubled northeastern state of Assam yesterday, only a day before prime minister Manmohan Singh was due to visit the region, police said.
Police suspect the United Liberation Front of Asom separatist group was behind the attacks. – (Reuters)
Media covers US war dead arrival
DOVER – The US media was permitted on Sunday to cover the arrival of a US- armed service member’s coffin at the Pentagon’s main mortuary in Delaware for the first time in 18 years.
A flag-draped coffin bearing the remains of air force staff Sgt Phillip Myers (30), Hopewell, Virginia, arrived at Dover air force base.
He was killed in Afghanistan on Saturday. – (Reuters)
Sudan seeking to free aid workers
KHARTOUM – Sudan yesterday said it was trying to free two foreign aid workers kidnapped in the second abduction of international relief staff in its Darfur region in less than a month.
Unknown armed men took the female French and Canadian workers for Aide Médicale Internationale from their compound in south Darfur late on Saturday. – (Reuters)