THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
TUESDAY, APRIL 3, 2012
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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
ASIA
Wives, daughters of bin Laden sentenced to prison time
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In this photo taken March 8, Afghan refugees gather outside the house in Haripur, Pakistan, that Pakistan's intelligence agency believes Osama bin Laden lived in for nearly a year until he moved into the villa where he was eventually killed.
ISLAMABAD — A Pakistani court sentenced Osama bin Laden's three widows and two of his daughters to 45 days in prison on Monday for illegally living in the country, ordering them deported when the sentence ends, their lawyer said.
the U.S., despite being the subject of a massive international manhunt.
With credit for time served, the women and several of their other children will leave Pakistan later this month, said lawyer Mohammed Amir Khalil. They have been in detention since American commandos killed bin Laden in a large house in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad on May 2, but they were formally charged with immigration offenses only last month. The Americans left the women and children behind in the house after they flew off with bir Laden's corpse.
The women may have information about how bin Laden managed to remain undetected for close to 10 years after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in
The Saudi Foreign Ministry declined to comment.
NORTH AMERICA
Deadline set for withdrawal of Syrian troops from cities
NEW YORK CITY — International envoy Kofi Annan told the U.N. Security Council on Monday that Syria informed him its military will complete the withdrawal of troops and heavy weapons from populated areas by April 10.
The Syrian military will withdraw its troops on April 10. International envoy Kofi Annan said that the Syrian foreign minister would have preferred an earlier date.
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U. S. Ambassador Susan Rice said Annan received a letter from Syria's foreign minister on Sunday with the April 10 date and indicated he would have preferred an earlier deadline. She said Annan urged the Syrian government to start the withdrawal immediately and move no further into populated areas, and "that commitment was provided."
Syria's U.N. Ambassador Bashar Ja'fari said the April 10 deadline was set "by common accord" between Annan and the Syrian government, and
he again pledged his government's complete support for Annan's six-point plan to end the yearlong Syrian crisis.
But Rice, the current Security council president, expressed skepticism
about Syria's commitment, saying that Damascus has made and broken promises over many months.
EUROPE
Investigators say improper de-icing may not have caused deadly plane crash
MOSCOW — Russia's civil aviation chief says the plane that crashed Monday into a snowy field in Siberia, killing 31 people, appears to have been improperly de-iced, but he said there was no indication that negligence had caused the crash.
The twin-engine turboprop belonging to UATair crashed shortly after takeoff Monday from the snowy western Siberian city of Tyumen with 43 people aboard. Twelve people have been hospitalized in serious condition.
The state news agency RIA-Novosti quoted Rosaviatysya head Alexander Neradko as saying there was evidence "that the treatment of the plane with de-icing agents was not done at the necessary level." However, he also said there was no basis yet "to connect this with the causes of the crash."
The plane came down in a field about three kilometers (two miles) away from the Tyumen airport, breaking into three sections upon impact. Part of it was destroyed by a fire that burned at least six people to death, Sergei Kiselov, police chief at the Roshchino airport in Tyumen.
Investigators said evidence so far points to a technical failure of the French/italian-made aircraft. They noted that witnesses reported seeing smoke coming from its engines as the plane came down and said its pilots had tried to return to the airport.
The federal Investigative Committee said while equipment failure appeared to be the most likely cause of the crash, pilot error or mistakes by traffic controllers had not been ruled out.
Thirty-one people were killed in Monday's plane crash. The plane, an ATR-72, took off at 7:40 a.m. from Tyumen and was heading for the oil town of Surgut, about 400 miles away.
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NORTH AMERICA
No damage reported from aftershock
MEXICO CITY — Mexico was shaken Monday afternoon by a strong apparent aftershock from a powerful earthquake late last month.
Officials said there were no immediate reports of serious damage or injuries from the quake, which had an initial magnitude of 6.3.
Office towers rocked back and forth for several seconds in the center of Mexico City after the quake at 12:36 p.m. (1736 GMT) Monday afternoon and workers evacuated their buildings and gathered in the street. The quake was barely perceptible in some other parts of the city.
Mexico City Mayor Marcelo Ebard said via Twitter that no major damage had been reported by helicopter overflights of the city and public transport and other services were functioning normally.
Interior Secretary Alejandro Poire also said on Twitter that he had received no immediate reports of significant damage.
The U.S. Geological Survey reported a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 for Monday's aftershock and said the epicenter was in southern Mexico near the border of Guerrero and Oaxaca states, very close to the epicenter of a strong quake on March 20. Mexico has been shaken by a series of strong aftershocks since that quake, which killed at least two people and damaged about 13,500 homes near its epicenter.
Civil protection officials in both states close to the epicenter said there were no immediate reports of injuries or serious damage.
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