A roundup of today's other world news in brief
Woman appointed Kosovan president
PRISTINA– Kosovo's parliament elected a woman police commander with no political experience as president yesterday, after the previous head of state was forced to quit. Atifete Jahjaga became the third person to hold the job since September. – (Reuters)
Mubarak aide held over graft claims
CAIRO– An Egyptian judiciary body has ordered the former chief of staff for Hosni Mubarak be detained for 15 days to investigate allegations of illegal gains, the state news agency reported yesterday.
Zakaria Azmi was questioned this week by a senior justice ministry official. – (Reuters)
25 years for Somali over seizure of ship
WASHINGTON– A Somali pirate who pleaded guilty for his role in seizing a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden and holding it for more than two months was sentenced yesterday by a US judge to 25 years in prison.
The US justice department said Jama Idle Ibrahim (39) had previously received a 30-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Virginia for a separate attack on a US navy ship. – (Reuters)
Two injured in Israel, one dead in Gaza strike
JERUSALEM– An anti-tank missile fired from the Gaza Strip yesterday exploded near a school bus in southern Israel, injuring two.
In Gaza, a Palestinian was killed and five wounded in a retaliatory strike, an official said. Palestinian militants later fired rockets and mortar shells into southern Israel, police said. Defence minister Ehud Barak said that Israel regarded Hamas as responsible. – (Bloomberg)