KIZILTEPE, Turkey
A 20-year-old man was killed and at least seven other people were wounded Sunday as protesters in Turkey's Kurdish-populated southeast refused to leave the streets during the sixth consecutive day of anti-state rioting.
Police officers who said they had not slept for days stood nervously on guard in Kiziltepe, where much of the violence has taken place, and nearly every street corner was guarded by a police officer with an assault rifle.
The death increases to nine the number of people killed in a week of rioting set off by funerals for 14 pro- autonomy Kurdish guerrillas who were killed by Turkish troops. Thousands of protesters have rampaged since, attacking the police, banks and government offices.
Police headquarters in Diyarbakir, the largest city in the southeast, said 565 people had been detained in rioting so far, and 247 had been sent to jail after prosecutors took their statements. A commission set up to investigate damages has inspected more than 300 businesses, the Anatolia news agency said.(AP)
TEHRAN
Iran claims new success with underwater missile
Iran announced its second major new missile test within days, saying Sunday it had successfully fired a high-speed underwater missile capable of destroying warships and submarines. The tests came during war games that Iran's Revolutionary Guards have been holding since Friday.
The Iranian-made underwater missile has a speed of 360 kilometers per hour, or 225 miles per hour, said General Ali Fadavi, deputy head of the Revolutionary Guards' Navy.
That would make it three or four times as fast as a torpedo and as fast as the world's fastest known underwater missile, the Russian- made VA-111 Shkval, which was developed in 1995.
It was not immediately clear whether the missile could carry a nuclear warhead.
The new weapon could raise concerns over Iran's naval power in the Gulf, where, during the war with Iraq in the 1980s, Iranian forces attacked oil tankers from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. (AP)
ROME
Pope joins leaders in condemning murder
Pope Benedict XVI and Italian government leaders condemned Sunday the murder of an epileptic toddler who was snatched from his home near Parma a month ago in a case that has shocked the country.
A minute of silence was observed in stadiums across the country for the 18-month-old victim, Tommaso Onofri, whose body was found Saturday after the suspected kidnappers confessed to having hit him with a shovel to stop his crying.
The pope, politicians, leading singers and soccer players all had appealed for Tommaso's release.
Some have called for the execution of the killers. Italy has no death penalty. (Reuters)
SANA, Yemen
Qaeda fugitive gives up
A Qaeda militant, one of 23 who escaped from a Yemeni prison in February, has surrendered to the authorities, the official Saba news agency said Sunday.
The fugitive, Hazam Saleh Majali,
had been sentenced to death for his role in the 2002 attack on the French tanker Limburg. (AP)
MANAMA, Bahrain
Body is recovered
Bahraini officials recovered the body of an Indian man Sunday and continued to search for another person missing from a small cruise ship that capsized last week.
The boat overturned as several companies involved in the construction of Bahrain's World Trade Center held a party on board.
The dead included 22 Indians and 15 Britons. (AP)
CAIRO
Bird flu cases reported
Two young girls have been infected with bird flu, raising to eight the number of human cases of the virus in Egypt, the Health Ministry said Sunday.
The two girls are sisters, 18 months and 6 years old, from a northern province, Kafr el Sheikh, where the infection of another person was announced last week, a ministry spokesman said. (AP)
MADRID
Immigrants hunted
The Spanish authorities searched Sunday for a ship believed to be carrying hundreds of would-be illegal immigrants from Africa toward El Hierro, one of the Canary Islands.
Local newspapers reported on their Web sites that the ship could be carrying more than 500 people and may have begun its voyage in West Africa. (AP)