SEX ABUSE SURVIVOR lEAVES VATICAN PANEl
Vatican city: A British member of the Pope's advisory commission on sexual abuse has left the group, the Vatican has revealed. At a commission meeting “it was decided” that Peter Saunders, who has been an outspoken critic of the Vatican, would take a leave of absence, a statement said. The commission said Saunders, who himself was a victim of sexual abuse by a priest, would now “consider how he might best support the commission's work”.
‘TROOPS ENTERING SYRIA WIll RETURN IN COFFINS’
Damascus: Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem warned on Saturday that Saudi or other foreign ground troops entering Syria would “return home in wooden coffins,” and called on rebel groups fighting a massive Government offensive in the north to “come to their senses” and lay down their weapons.
JEWISH WOMAN STABBED IN SOUTHERN ISRAEl
Jerusalem: An attacker stabbed a Jewish woman in a market in an Arab town in southern Israel, seriously wounding her before running away, said police. Spokes-woman luba Samri said the woman in her 60's was assaulted with a knife in Rahat, a mostly Bedouin town. Palestinian assaults have been on a rise lately.
13 PEOPlE KIllED IN ROAD ACCIDENT IN NEPAl
Kathmandu: At least 13 people were killed and six others injured on Saturday when a passenger bus carrying Army personnel veered off a highway on its way to Trishuli & fell into a ravine in central Nepal.