■ United States
Evacuees flee Ophelia
Thousands of people fled their homes in North Carolina's barrier islands on Tuesday as tropical Storm Ophelia strengthened into a hurricane again and wobbled toward the southeast US coast Ophelia's center was 175km south of Wilmington, North Carolina. The storm was creeping north-northwest and was expected to turn north and hit the North Carolina coast yesterday night and today, the forecasters said. Evacuees streamed off the barrier islands, heading inland before the buffeting winds forced authorities to close some of the high-rise bridges to the mainland.
■ Italy
Bombing suspect to go to UK
A suspected bomber in the July 21 London attacks will be extradited to Britain within 10 days after an Italian court rejected his appeal on Tuesday, a lawyer for Britain said. Ethiopian-born Hamdi Issac was arrested in Rome days after fleeing there in late July after the attacks on trains and a bus that killed no one but brought chaos to London. Two weeks earlier, suicide bombers killed more than 50 people in London in attacks on similar targets. On Tuesday Italy's high court rejected his appeal against an earlier lower court decision to extradite him. "It has been much faster than they thought ... He must now be extradited within 10 days," said Paolo Iorio, London's lawyer in the case.
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