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“He’s got a good pair of lungs on him, that’s for sure. He’s a big boy, he’s quite heavy. We’re still working on a name so we will have that as soon as we can.”
Prince William, on his newborn son, as he and his wife Kate left St. Mary’s Hospital in London on Tuesday Article, this page
Posters go up seeking leads on Nazis
BERLIN - The Simon Wiesenthal Center began a poster campaign in several German cities Tuesday appealing for help in tracking down the last surviving Nazi war criminals not yet brought to justice, and promising compensation to those who provide useful information.
About 2,000 posters depicting the entrance gate of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz were put up in the cities of Berlin, Hamburg and Cologne asking the public to step forward with information that may lead to the arrests of Nazis some seven decades after the end of Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich.
“Unfortunately, very few people who committed the crimes had to pay for them,” Efraim Zuroff, the U.S.-based Jewish center’s top Nazi hunter, told reporters in Berlin. “The passage of time in no way diminishes the crimes.”
The Wiesenthal Center is asking for tips to be called in to a hotline in Germany with as much information as possible.
A reward of $6,580 will be paid for the information upon the indictment of a suspect and another $6,580 upon conviction, Zuroff said.
Zuroff, who is the director of the center’s Israel office, estimated that there are still about 60 people alive in Germany who are fit to stand trial for the crimes they committed.
Dutch block terror-suspect extradition
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Dutch judges blocked the extradition Tuesday of a terror suspect to the United States, saying he was tortured in Pakistan after his 2010 arrest, and it is unclear whether American authorities had any involvement.
The Hague Court of Appeal ruling was a significant victory for the man identified only as Sabir K. in his attempts to avoid being sent for trial in America, but Dutch authorities can still start a final appeal to the country’s Supreme Court.
Sabir K., who has Dutch and Pakistani nationality, was arrested in Pakistan in 2010 and expelled to the Netherlands in 2011. U.S. authorities accuse him of working with al-Qaida from 2004-10, and of plotting a suicide attack on an American military base in Afghanistan.
In a statement, the Hague appellate court said U.S. authorities had issued an arrest warrant for Sabir K. three days after his detention in Pakistan.
But it went on to say that circumstances of his arrest and detention “raised questions” among the judges, who cited international human-rights groups as saying terror suspects are “almost without exception tortured” if detained in Pakistan.
Search continues in quake-hit China
BEIJING - Rescuers with shovels and search dogs chipped away at collapsed hillsides Tuesday as the death toll rose to 94 from a strong earthquake in a farming region of northwest China.
One person was listed as missing and 1,001 as injured after Monday morning’s quake near the city of Dingxi in Gansu province.
About 123,000 people were affected by the quake, with 31,600 moved to temporary shelters, the provincial earthquake administration said on its website. Almost 2,000 houses were destroyed, and about 22,500 damaged, the administration said.
Hospitals set up aid stations in parking lots to accommodate the injured, while hundreds of paramilitary police fanned out to search for victims in the region of terraced farmland where the quake struck about 760 miles west of Beijing.
The Chinese Red Cross said it was shipping 200 tents, various household items and 2,000 jackets to the area. Other supplies were being shipped in by the army and paramilitary police, which dispatched about 6,000 personnel and two helicopters to aid in rescue efforts.
Prince, his wife take new baby home
LONDON - Prince William, wife Kate and their new son left St. Mary’s Hospital in central London on Tuesday, a day after the birth of the baby who is third in line to the British throne.
The royal couple and the child emerged from the hospital to cheers. Kate, wearing a light-blue spotted dress, carried the baby, wrapped in a shawl, out of the hospital, then handed him to William, who was dressed casually in an open-necked blue shirt.
“He’s got a good pair of lungs on him, that’s for sure,” William said. “He’s a big boy, he’s quite heavy. We’re still working on a name so we will have that as soon as we can.”
Three people stand between the baby and the throne: Queen Elizabeth II, who is 87; her eldest son Charles, the prince of Wales, 64; and William, 31. William married Kate, who’s also 31, in April 2011.
A smiling Kate said the birth had been “very emotional, such a special time. I think any parent will know what this feeling feels like.”
William put the baby, strapped into a child-safety seat, in the back of a black Range Rover before taking the wheel himself to drive home to Kensington Palace.
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