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NEWS OF THE WORLD
Associated Press
ASIA
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Nepalese airline Simrik Air, an injured victim, center, of an avalanche is rescued at the base camp of Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal on Sunday. Ten climbers survived the avalanche that hit about 4 a.m.
Avalanche kills nine, six missing
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KATMANDU, Nepal — Mountaineers who survived a pre-dawn avalanche high on the world's eighth-tallest peak say they waited an hour for sunlight, and then saw pieces of tents and bodies of victims strew around them on the snow.
Veteran Italian climber Silvio Mondinelli said he and a fellow mountaineer were asleep when they heard a violent sound and felt their tent start to slide.
"It was only a few seconds and we did not know what happened, but we had slid more than 200 meters (650 feet)." Mondinelli told The Associated Press on Monday. "All we wanted was for it to stop."
The avalanche hit at about 4 a.m. Sunday while more than two dozen climbers were sleeping in
their tents at Camp 3 on Mount Manaslu in northern Nepal.
At least nine climbers were killed and six are believed still missing.
Helicopters flew over the slopes on Monday to search for the missing mountaineers as climbers and guides searched the slopes on foot. Rescuers brought down eight bodies — four French, one German, one Italian, one Spaniard and one Nepali guide — and were trying to retrieve the ninth from the 7,000-meter (22,960-foot) area where the avalanche struck, police Chief Basanta Bahadur Kuwar said.
Ten climbers survived, but many of them were injured and were flown to hospitals by rescue helicopters.
Three French climbers and two Germans were transported to hospitals in Katmandu on Sunday. Two Italians were flown there on Monday — Mondinelli, who has climbed the world's 14 highest peaks, and fellow mountaineer Christian Gobbi.
Gobbi said they could not see at first when they looked out of their torn tent because it was pitch dark and they had no light.
When the sun rose an hour later, they saw parts of tents scattered across the snow, along with people who had been killed or injured.
They said they were able to assist the injured with the help of Sherpa guides who came from lower camps.
Mount Manaslu is 8,156 meters (26,760 feet) high and has attracted more climbers recently because it is considered one of the easier peaks to climb among the world's tallest mountains.
MIDDLE EAST
1.5 million Syrians affected by food shortage ASSOCIATED PRESS intention of carrying out reforms with neither
BEIRUT (AP) — The number of Syrians in need of food aid has jumped from 250,000 in April to 1.5 million today, the head of the U.N.'s food agency said Monday, as more civilians are driven from their homes by an escalating civil war.
Separately, the international envoy to Syria, Lakhdar Brahimi, told reporters at the U.N. that the conflict threatens to spill across the Middle East and is "extremely bad and getting worse."
In a closed-door session of the U.N. Security Council, Brahimi had harsh words for Bashar Assad, saying the Syrian president has no
intention of carrying out reforms that would end his family's four-decade grip on Syria.
Brahimi's comments were relayed by a diplomat who participated in the briefing and spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss publicly what was said.
Assad insists he is ready to consider political reforms and portraits those fighting to bring him down as foreign-backed terrorists. Syria's opposition groups, both in exile and in the country, dismiss Assad's promises and say the dictator must step down ahead of any political dialogue.
Syria's 18-month conflict appears to have reached a stalemate,
with neither Assad's military nor armed rebels able to deliver a knock-out blow. The death toll has reached nearly 30,000, according to activists, while hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been displaced, many seeking refuge in neighboring Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
In New York, the U.N.'s World Food Program warned that it is running short of funds to cover operations in Syria because of sharply growing needs. World Food Program chief Ertharin Cousin said the agency had raised $78 million, but needs $60 million more to cover its annual Syria budget.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Free Syrian Army fighters are seen in a truck outside their headquarters in Aleppo, Syria on Sunday.
EUROPE
Religious tax criticized by reform group
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BERLIN — A Catholic reform group in Germany criticized the country's bishops Monday for declaring that believers who refuse to pay religious taxes won't be able to receive the sacrament, become godparents or work in church institutions.
A century-old agreement with the state adds up to nine percent to the income tax bill of Germany's 25 million registered Roman Catholics, earning the church more than 64 billion ($5.2 billion) annually. The same tax applies to Protestants and Jews.
The churches use the income to pay employees' salaries and fund social work such as care for the elderly.
The Catholic bishops' decree in Germany last week is part of an attempt to stem the steady flow of people who opt out of paying religious taxes. It declares that they have committed a "grave lapse" and effectively left the church.
But the group We are Church said the bishops' decision to freeze believers out if they don't pay up was "the wrong signal at the wrong time."
"Instead of seeking to understand the reasons for the high number of people leaving the church, this decree by the bishops represents a threat to the church's members," it said.
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