A round-up of today's other world news in brief
Top 9/11 figure on trial over Tunisia attack
PARIS - Three men, including one of the principal figures linked to the September 11th attacks in the United States, went on trial in Paris yesterday for their alleged role in a truck bomb attack on a synagogue in Tunisia in 2002.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, a Pakistani believed to be one of the planners of the attacks on New York and Washington, is suspected of organising the suicide attack in Djerba on April 11th, 2002, in which 21 people, including two French nationals, died. - (Reuters)
Google told to regulate content
BEIJING - Chinese officials have launched a crackdown on "vulgar" websites including Google and the country's leading search engine, Baidu.
In a highly unusual move, they named 19 leading internet companies they said failed to censor inappropriate content despite warnings, or did not do so swiftly enough. - ( Guardianservice)
Angola acts over Ebola outbreak
LUANDA - Angola has closed part of its northeastern border with the Democratic Republic of Congo to stop the contagious Ebola virus from spreading into the oil-rich African nation, according to the health minister.
Jose Van-Dunem said yesterday the Angolan authorities would ban all trade and movement of people from the diamond-rich province of Lunda Norte to the Congo, where an outbreak of Ebola is suspected of infecting 40 people - including 13 deaths - since November. - (Reuters)
Top Thatcher adviser dies
LONDON - Prof Sir Alan Walters, the former economics adviser to Margaret Thatcher whose controversial role led to the resignation of Nigel Lawson, has died at the age of 82.
Sir Alan was described as "the finest of friends" by Baroness Thatcher, who paid tribute to him as "radical, fearless, consistent and creative." - (PA)
Gunmen fire on Athens police
ATHENS - Gunmen opened fire on Athens riot police yesterday, seriously wounding one man, in an escalation of the street violence that has rumbled on for weeks.
Police said one of the weapons fired by the attackers had been used previously by the extremist group Revolutionary Struggle, which claimed responsibility for a 2007 attack on the US embassy in Athens. - (AP)
Dozens killed in landslide
GUATEMALA - Rescuers have pulled 33 bodies from a massive landslide that covered a northern Guatemala road.
Guatemala's vice president Rafael Espada said he feared the death toll could rise by at least a dozen more. At least 15 others were injured. - (AP)