Bahamas: Plane crashes
NASSAU — Bahamian investigators are searching for more wreckage of a small plane that crashed on the southernmost island of the archipelago.
Two U.S. pilots were the only people aboard the small jet when it crashed Thursday night in an unpopulated area of Great Inagua shortly after taking off from the Dominican Republic en route to Miami, police inspector Dennis Brown said Saturday.
Cambodia: Deportation
PHNOM PENH — Cambodia deported a group of 20 Muslim asylum-seekers back to China on Saturday, despite the protests from the U.S. and the U.N., which rushed people to the airport in an attempt to physically prevent their expulsion.
As the Uighurs were put in a compound under constant guard in recent days, exile and rights groups grew increasingly nervous that Cambodia would give in to considerable pressure from Beijing, the Southeast Asian nation's largest foreign investor. The decision to expel them was announced on the eve of a visit from Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping.
Israel: Border shots fired
GAZA CITY — Shots were fired from the Gaza Strip on Saturday at Egyptians installing an underground barrier meant to choke off the smuggling of goods and weapons through tunnels into blockaded Gaza.
No one was reported injured in the attack, Palestinian and Egyptian officials said. But Egypt increased security in the border area after the fourth cross-border shooting since workers began building the metal barrier several weeks ago.
Poland: Search for sign
OSWIECIM — Polish authorities stepped up security checks at airports and border crossings and searched scrap metal yards Saturday as the search intensified for the infamous Nazi sign stolen from the Auschwitz death camp memorial.
The brazen pre-dawn theft Friday of one of the Holocaust's most chilling and notorious symbols sparked outrage from around the world, and Polish leaders have declared recovering the 5-meter sign a national priority.
Mexico: 12 more deaths
MEXICO CITY — The bound and burned bodies of eight men were found in the central Mexico state of Queretaro, prosecutors said Saturday.
The still-unidentified bodies were discovered in the back of two burned-out trucks on a rural road late Friday, state and federal prosecutors said in a statement. Also Saturday, in the northern state of Chihuahua, officials reported that gunmen killed four police officers in a series of attacks on patrol cars in Ciudad Juarez Friday.
Mexico: Drug suspect
MEXICO CITY — Mexican police say they have captured a suspected lieutenant of the Beltran Leyva drug cartel linked to more than 109 execution-style killings.
The Public Safety department says Jesus Basilio Araujo is also known by the nickname "The Chicken." It said today in a statement that Araujo allegedly worked for an aide to drug lord Arturo Beltran Leyva, who died Wednesday in a shootout with Navy personnel.
Syria: Visit from Lebanon
DAMASCUS — Lebanon's prime minister, who has blamed neighboring Syria for the assassination of his father, visited Damascus Saturday for the first time since the 2005 killing — a trip that a close associate said was extremely difficult for him to make.
Despite the unresolved issue of his father's slaying in a massive truck bombing in Beirut, Lebanese Premier Saad Hariri's visit potentially opens the way for a new era in the two countries' relations, which have been characterized by upheaval and suspicion for decades.
Taiwan: Quake injures 14
TAIPEI — A powerful earthquake off Taiwan injured 14 people and caused minor damage in the capital as well as near the epicenter, an official said Sunday.
All 14 victims sustained minor injuries in the eastern city of Hualien.