■ LEBANON
Army and militants clash
Ten people were killed in overnight clashes between the army and Fatah al-Islam militants in the port city of Tripoli, including six Islamists, an army spokesman said yesterday. Apart from the Islamist fighters, two civilians, one soldier and a policeman died in a firefight which erupted after the army raided the apartment of a militant late on Saturday, he said. "The army has found the bodies of six Islamists inside an apartment building in Abu Samra," the spokesman said. "They were killed in clashes with our soldiers in which small arms and medium-sized weapons were used." The fighting began when militants opened up with automatic weapons on an army jeep in Abu Samra, killing one soldier.
■ UNITED STATES
Baby girl born outside tunnel
A baby girl was delivered yesterday morning outside the Queens Midtown Tunnel in New York City, with four MTA Bridge and Tunnel officers assisting in the birth, a spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority said. The infant's father, calling for help, had pulled up minutes earlier at a checkpoint for truck inspection on the Queens side of the tunnel, said MTA spokeswoman Catherine Sweeney. MTA Bridge & Tunnel Officer Thomas Goettelmann, a former emergency medical technician and volunteer fireman, assisted the mother in delivering the baby along with three other officers.
■ FRANCE
Wanted Rwandan arrested
A former Rwandan government official wanted for his role in the nation's 1994 genocide was taken into custody at a Paris airport after Interpol helped coordinate his arrest, the international police agency said Saturday. US immigration officials realized Isaac Kamali was wanted in Rwanda for genocide and crimes against humanity after he arrived in the US carrying a valid French passport, the Lyon, France-based Interpol said. Kamali's name had popped up during a check of Interpol's database of internationally wanted suspects.
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