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BOMBINGS: Four Algerians were charged Saturday with supplying false documents to terrorists blamed for a wave of deadly bombings in France. The four were among 18 detained in a police sweep in the Paris region Tuesday. Two others were charged Friday. Smail Bentaleb, Said Benidris, Mohamed Bentata and Abdellah Diboun were charged with conspiring with terrorists and forging official documents, said prosecuting judge Jean-Francois Ricard. They are suspected of helping to make false documents for Muslim extremists in France.GAS LEAK: A gas leak in an eastern Slovak steel mill killed at least 13 workers and sent 109 to the hospital, officials said Saturday. Carbon monoxide leaked Friday from the VSZ mill outside Velka Ida, 180 miles east of Bratislava. The gas is a byproduct of plant production. The leak was caused by an explosion that ruptured a pipe carrying the gas out of the mill.
STORM: Tropical storm Zack killed at least four people when it slammed into the central Philippines on Saturday, overturning a ferry, toppling trees and electric poles and causing extensive flooding. Swollen rivers forced hundreds of families to evacuate in the island of Cebu, 350 miles southeast of Manila, disaster officials said.
EXILES: About 400 Egyptian workers expelled by Libyan leader Moammar Gadhadfi have arrived at Saloum, Egypt, and many have complained of bad treatment by Libyan security men. Border officials said Saturday that the recent arrivals were the largest group of Egyptians since Gadhafi decided to expel foreign workers nearly six weeks ago.
RESCUE: West African peacekeeping forces rescued 350 passengers and saved a Nigerian cargo vessel from sinking off the coast of Liberia on Saturday. The ship, MV Joycy-4, was towed to the Buchanan shipping yard by a Nigerian gunboat that rushed to the scene. About 150 other people had already been rescued by fishing boats. The ship developed mechanical problems off the coast of Buchanan.
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JESSE JAMES: Thanks to modern science, Jesse James may finally rest in peace. The remains of the notorious outlaw were carried by horse-drawn hearse Saturday to his grave on a windswept slope at Mount Olivet Cemetery in Kearney, Mo. Preliminary DNA tests concluded last month that scraps of bone and strands of hair exhumed from the grave probably belonged to James, who was shot by a gang member in 1882 at age 34. The tests were aimed at resolving lingering doubts over who was buried in the grave. "We say farewell to Jesse James and hope to let him rest in peace," Robert L. Hawkins III told a standing-room-only crowd of 500 at the service.
DEATH: Dr. Hamilton E. Holmes, who endured racial hatred, violence and loneliness as one of the two black students who integrated the University of Georgia in 1961, has died at the age of 54. Holmes, who graduated with honors in 1963 and went on to become a prominent Atlanta physician, died at home in Atlanta in his sleep Thursday.