News in Brief

Israel cabinet appoints new Mossad chief
Afp, Jerusalem

 
Israel's cabinet on Sunday appointed Yossi Cohen, the outgoing deputy director of the Mossad spy agency, as national security adviser and National Security Council chief, the premier's office said.
Jerusalem-born Cohen, 52, has "30 years' experience in various operational and intelligence positions in the field, as well as in administrative positions" in Mossad, it said in a statement.

Brain-eating parasite kills US boy
Cnn Online

 
Zachary Reyna, a 12-year-old Florida boy stricken with a brain-eating parasite, has died, according to a post Saturday on a Facebook page that's been providing detailed updates from the boy's family.
"The battle is over for Zac but he won the war," the post concluded.
Doctors had given Zachary an experimental drug to treat the rare brain damaging amoeba, Naegleria fowleri, that he had. But it failed to save his life.

Donald Trump sued over bogus university
The Guardian Online

 
New York's attorney-general has sued Donald Trump for $40 million, saying the real estate mogul helped run a phoney "Trump University" that promised to make students rich but instead steered them into expensive and mostly useless seminars, and even failed to deliver promised apprenticeships.
Attorney-general Eric Schneiderman says many of the 5,000 students who paid up to $35,000 thought they would at least meet Trump, but instead all they got was their picture taken in front of a life-size picture of the star of The Apprentice.

Nato tankers torched in Pakistan
Cnn Online

 
Armed militants torched two tankers carrying fuel for Nato troops through southwest Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province, police said. While no one was injured in this attack, two other attacks nearby left four dead.

Blast hits troops bus in Yemen; 1 killed
Afp, Sanaa

 
A powerful blast ripped through a bus carrying Yemeni air force personnel to their Sanaa base yesterday, killing one person and wounding 25, an air force spokesman said.
A bomb planted on the bus exploded while the vehicle was travelling on the road leading to Sanaa international airport, which is adjacent to the base, Colonel Mehdi al-Aydarus told AFP.