26 prisoners die of hunger

KINSHASA – At least 26 prisoners have died of hunger in a prison in the Democratic Republic of Congo since the beginning of the year, said United Nations officials.

The UN Mission in the DRC sent a team to the Mbuji-Mayi Central Prison in the province of Kasai Oriental, about 950km southeast of the capital, Kinshasa. Pirates seize Japanese ship * NAIROBI – Pirates have seized a Japanese-owned vessel transporting lead and zinc off the Somali coast, said a Kenyan maritime official said yesterday.Palestinian in construction truck rams cars * JERUSALEM – A Palestinian rammed a construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama was supposed to stay yesterday, injuring four people before an Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker, police and witnesses said.Police dismantle ETA’s ‘most active’ cell * MADRID – Spanish police yesterday dismantled the most active cell of the armed Basque separatist group ETA with the detention of nine suspected members of the group, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.Farmer shot, ate rare eagle * MANILA – A farmer faces 12 years in prison if found guilty in the Philippines of killing and then eating one of the world’s largest and rarest eagles, the government said on Tuesday.The three-year-old juvenile male Philippine eagle, which weighed more than four kg, was shot with an air rifle on the northern slope of the country’s fourth highest mountain, on July 10.Foreign ministers meet for N Korea talks * SINGAPORE – Six foreign ministers involved in talks over North Korea’s weapons programme will meet for the first time in Singapore in a gathering that China said yesterday would push forward the process of denuclearisation.Pirates seize Japanese ship * NAIROBI – Pirates have seized a Japanese-owned vessel transporting lead and zinc off the Somali coast, said a Kenyan maritime official said yesterday. Palestinian in construction truck rams cars * JERUSALEM – A Palestinian rammed a construction truck into three cars and a bus near the Jerusalem hotel where Barack Obama was supposed to stay yesterday, injuring four people before an Israeli civilian shot and killed the attacker, police and witnesses said. Police dismantle ETA’s ‘most active’ cell * MADRID – Spanish police yesterday dismantled the most active cell of the armed Basque separatist group ETA with the detention of nine suspected members of the group, Interior Minister Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba said.Farmer shot, ate rare eagle * MANILA – A farmer faces 12 years in prison if found guilty in the Philippines of killing and then eating one of the world’s largest and rarest eagles, the government said on Tuesday.The three-year-old juvenile male Philippine eagle, which weighed more than four kg, was shot with an air rifle on the northern slope of the country’s fourth highest mountain, on July 10.Foreign ministers meet for N Korea talks * SINGAPORE – Six foreign ministers involved in talks over North Korea’s weapons programme will meet for the first time in Singapore in a gathering that China said yesterday would push forward the process of denuclearisation.