Director of "restrepo" and a photographer were killed in Libya

Chris Hondros, Getty Images photo agency more died later of the devastating brain trauma. Guy Martin, which was deposited photographs to the Panos Agency, suffered a serious pelvic injury, said Andre Liohn, a colleague who was at the Centre of yard where photographers rushed after that they were beaten by rebels.

Mr. Hondros suffered a significant loss of brain tissue and was relaunched twice before being yard care. He spent several hours in a coma and died after 10 am, said Mr. Liohn.

Mr. Martin, a British citizen, had surgery vascular Wednesday evening, according to the same account. The progression of the night, Mr. Liohn said that Mr. Martin bleeding had been arrested and that his chances had improved, although a doctor has said that his condition was not stable yet.

The fourth photographer, Michael Christopher Brown, suffered shrapnel wounds in the left shoulder, but his life was not in danger. He was in surgery late Wednesday evening, said Mr. Liohn.

Third largest city of the Libya, Misurata, was cut off by land from the rest of the country by the military forces loyal to colonel Muammar el-Gaddafi. He has been the theatre of intensive, close to the weeks combat. Hundreds of Libyans have been confirmed killed.

Photographers had reached the city by the sea of Benghazi, the capital of rebels. Mr. Liohn said that they had been working together on the side of rebel of the front line on the street of Tripoli, one of the reasons of main battle of the city. Guarded by snipers and hit by all sorts of incoming fire, cluster munitions tank shells, is a boulevard extended ruins.

Mr. Liohn said rebels had fought progress door to door and blocks of buildings in compensation. It had been launched Tuesday at the day's fighting, he said, and four photographers arrived in the region late Wednesday morning.

Mr. Liohn said he was concerned that the Qathafi forces would counterattack in the afternoon, then added, "and this is what happened."

To 15 hours, Mr. said Liohn, the four were struck by a rocket grenade.

Rebels them expedited to the sorting Centre. The four were alive, but it was clear from the outset, Mr. said Liohn, Mr. Hetherington and Mr. Hondros were seriously injured.

Mr. Hetherington had lost a large amount of blood, Mr. Liohn, said, and doctors have been unable to stabilize him.

"They have tried to make cardiac massage for a long time", he said. "May 15 minutes or more." "And then they declared him dead".

Mr. Hondros is unconscious and died in the night.

Covering the war in the East of the Libya and Misurata in Western proved to be particularly dangerous for journalists, who have been subjected to air strikes and artillery, rocket, rifle and machine-gun fire, and they have faced the risk of arrestbeating and detention of the pro-Qathafi forces.

The risks during the fighting were compounded by the difficulties of relocation of equipment in Libya through the Egypt, where customs officials tried to block the transit of helmets and vests.Some journalists have managed to move the equipment to the front lines, but most have not. Mr. Hetherington nor Mr. Brown had protector of Misurata, said Mr. Liohn.

It was not immediately clear how Mr Martin and Mr Brown could be evacuated.

The Ionian spirit, a ship chartered by the International Organization for migration, was in the port of Misurata evacuate migrant workers, who have just completed a third trip of relief of Benghazi and loaded with evacuees.

Human Rights Watch, organization based in New York, whose staff members know photographers, contacted the ship and found that it was ready to evacuate two photographers injured in Benghazi as well. But the two men were not judged suitable for travel, especially on a trip that could last for hours 20 or more.

The Organization has made arrangements late into the night to move the remains of Mr. Hetherington, Mr. Hondros from the ship for the trip to Benghazi. Consular officers of England and the United States began to organize their repatriation of Libya after the trip.

The remains of Mr. Hetherington and Mr. Hondros has been confirmed on the ship.

Two other journalists have been killed in the month last in the Libyan conflict, according to the Committee to protect journalists from: Mohammed al-Nabbous, the founder of the Libya Alhurra TV Online, who was shot dead as he was streaming audio reports of the fighting in Benghazi; and Ali Hassan al-Jaber, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, who was killed when his crew was ambushed near Benghazi.

In addition to four who were killed, 49 journalists have been detained, according to the Committee to protect journalists.

The loss of Mr. Hetherington, 41, emoi in many quarters, including among journalists, aid workers, soldiers and victims of the war, he had bound of friendship with a brilliant career. A British citizen who has lived in New York, he had covered conflicts with sensitivity to Liberia, Afghanistan, in Darfur and, in recent weeks, the Libya.

Jeremy w. Peters contributed reporting from New York.

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Yale student killed as hair gets caught up in the Tower

But it was a rudimentary machine - a tower in a campus laboratory - which erased that everyone imagined to be a bright future for Ms. Dufault, who also found time to mentor girls interested in science and play saxophone in Yale precision marching band.

On Tuesday, only a few weeks of his degree, upsetting it late at night in a machine shop in a chemistry laboratory, as it had for weeks while working on his thesis: investigation into the possible use of liquid helium to detect dark matter particles. Ms. Dufault, 22, was killed when her hair became caught in the Tower, which Rotary axis is used to contain materials such as wood or metal shaped.

Student members and staff were overwhelmed by the press on Wednesday and met in small groups to share their grief. Linda Koch Lorimer, a Vice-President of Yale and his Secretary, called the death "terrible accident" in a letter to students, and said counsellors were available. A candlelit vigil took place Wednesday evening in the Court of College of Saybrook, the apartment complex where Ms. Dufault lived on the campus of New Haven.

"It was incredibly passionate about all kinds of science, said Joe O'Rourke, a colleague of astronomy and physics major and member of the team of physics." She was the person most difficult work that I don't know. ?

Connecticut chief medical examiner ruled the death an accident, citing the cause as asphyxia due to compression of the neck. The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration said that it would investigate this point. Ted Fitzgerald, a spokesman for the OSHA in Boston, said that the Office had jurisdiction over the laboratory because Yale employees also use his equipment.

President of Yale, Richard c. Levin, said in a statement that the University would also examine "security policies and practices of laboratories, machine shops and other facilities with power equipment" operated by undergraduate students, science and arts building. Until the review is complete, he said, students will have access to these places only during the hours of play, and monitors will be present.

Mr. o ' Rourke, atelier d'usinage Sterling Chemistry Laboratory, he uses also stated, has always been a member of the personnel present during the hours of the day. But many students use the shop during the night; Dr. Levin has stated that the other students who worked in the building are the body of Ms. Dufault and called the police.

Website of the Department of chemistry, access to the machine shop is "strictly limited" to those who have completed a course of introduction shop. Yale lists security measures online for another workshop of machining on campus, students of warning: "" If you have long hair or a long beard, tie - if your hair are spinning machines, it will be removed if you are lucky.""

Ms. Dufault took an advanced course on the protocols of the machine shop this semester, said Mr. O'Rourke. And for the experience of the NASA reduced gravity, she helped to prepare a paper 60 pages on backups.

"It has always been very careful," he said. "This is why I was shocked that this happened." I've worked with her in this laboratory and has always considered its taking safety precautions. ?

Manfred Philipp, Professor of chemistry at the Lehman College in Queens, which had no direct knowledge, the accident of Yale said towers and similar equipment are notoriously dangerous.

"It really pay attention on a machine like that because he has immense power", he said. "The Tower a renewable of moving parts, and if your hair is stuck in that, then your head would have reached to the machine."

Ms. Dufault, who grew up in Scituate, mass., had planned to pursue an advanced degree in sciences of the ocean. Noble and Greenough to nearby Dedham school, she was known as "one of the earliest students including his never encountered teachers."

"Her spirit, her sense of curiosity, his insight, his sensitivity and his enjoyment of what it was were extraordinary, said Robert P. Henderson Jr., the head of the school." She was a true intellectual. ?

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39 killed in Ciudad Juarez in four days

Nearly 600 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez in 2011, unofficial estimates.Three police officers, officers were among the victimsMore that 3,000 people were killed in in the city of 2010The top of page law enforcement officer was accused of abuse

(CNN) - the most dangerous city to the wrapped Mexico to another bloody week with 39 murders between Friday and Monday, including the murder of three police officers, the Office of the Prosecutor of State on the Chihuahua to Ciudad Juarez, said Tuesday.

In one of the most high-profile killings, Ismael Sergio Apodaca, Coordinator of the Police Station "Chihuahua", was executed Friday. Hours earlier, a municipal official was attacked and taken to hospital in a serious condition, the Prosecutor's Office told CNN. In all, eight people were killed that day here.

Saturday, another 16 people were killed, including six victims slaughtered to a workshop and an another four killed in a garage. The victims, all men, were between 20 and 30 years.

Mexico blames new mass grave Zetas

Nine people were executed on Sunday. Juarez municipal police officers were on high alert after finding "narcopintas" - messages of graffiti left by alleged drug traffickers - on public walls near a local park. End of the day, another two police officers had been killed by the suspects appears to be involved with organized crime, the Office of the Prosecutor, said.

Perhaps the most horrible homicide in the four-day period was that of a man whose torso concluded that Monday. The body had no head or branches, said responsible. He was one of six killed this day there and not has not been identified.

According to unofficial estimates, as many 600 people were killed in Ciudad Juarez since the beginning of the year. More than 3,000 people were killed in violence linked to the drug in 2010.

During a visit to the Senate of Texas at Austin, in the wake of the bloody weekend, Murguia Lardizabal of Juarez Mayor Hector "teto" told journalists that improve communication between us officials and Mexican is a key to the fight against the violence of the drug.

While Murguia has tried to minimize the importance of speculation that the violence in his town is getting worse, newly appointed greater than Juarez cop - Mayor Julian Leyzaola - still give an interview since his arrival at the Office a little over a month ago. He received several public death threats since he took office on March 10.

Leyzaola is also facing allegations of ill-treatment of Human Rights Watch. The Group was asked to respond to the allegations that police under his command in the Delta Group were involved in the disappearance of four young men in Juarez late March.

Three officers of the Delta Group have already appeared before a judge for the crime of enforced disappearance.

Leyzaola was appointed in similar human rights abuse during his visit scandals: the greater in Tijuana, Baja California cop. In past statements has repeatedly denied the claims, which dismissed the charges as tactical smear his critics.

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Four killed in Syria cut the city - New York Times

The army had sealed off the city that hundreds of demonstrators gathered, undaunted by use of the Government of the force for more than three weeks of unrest, witnesses said. Television reported State that nine soldiers were killed in an ambush near the town.

Because telephone lines, electricity and Internet access were apparently cut to most of the regions of Banias details were incomplete. Soldiers and tanks from the army surrounded the city, prevent people from entering to the.

But a witness, reached by telephone, said hundreds of protesters had gathered near the al-Rahman Mosque, when forces of security with men in open civilian clothing fire armed. The names of the dead were read on the loudspeakers of the mosque.

Dozens of people were injured, the witness said, but most of them have asked to be treated at a small clinic instead of the main hospital of the city, which was under the control of the security forces.

As most people who were interviewed, the witness requested anonymity for fear of reprisals from the Government. Several human rights activists, also citing witnesses, reported the shootings Sunday, Banias is 185 kilometres northwest of Damascus, the capital.

"There are demonstrations throughout the city, and people are chanting against the regime, said Haitham al-Maleh, 80, a lawyer and activist for the rights of the man who has spent years as a political prisoner in Syria."

The accounts could not be confirmed independently. The Government imposed severe restrictions on the coverage of news and many journalists, including Associated Press, were ordered to leave the country.

Demonstrations broke out in Syria, more than three weeks ago and have experienced steady growth, with tens of thousands of people calling for major reforms in a Government authoritarian President Bashar al-Assad.

More than 170 people were killed, human rights groups function.

The Government accuses the bands armed violence and pledged to crush any further unrest. Sunday, rogue reported State television were behind the killing of nine soldiers in an ambush near Banias.

The television report said armed men hiding among the trees along a road fired at the soldiers, and it broadcasts images of an ambulance and other civilian vehicles coming under fire along the road.

Sunday, Assad said that the country was "" to go forward on the road to comprehensive reforms", reported the State News Agency, Sana." In recent weeks, Mr. Assad responded to the protesters with force and limited concessions which have failed to appease the.

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5 shoppers killed in Dutch Mall shooting

Low Eenhoom, Mayor of Alphen aan de Rijn, said the shooter fired an automatic rifle and committed suicide before the arrival of the police.Shooter himself killed before the arrival of the police, the Mayor saysFour of nine wounded are in critical condition

(CNN) - the Dutch officials say an armed man opened fire at a shopping centre, Saturday killing five people and injuring nine others before the bullet in the head, journalist to the CNN subsidiary SBS reported.

Low Eenhoom, Mayor of Alphen aan de Rijn, has told reporters that the shooter, whose identity is unknown, fired an automatic rifle and committed suicide prior to the arrival on the scene of the police.

The Mall was evacuated. Four of the wounded are in critical condition, said Eenhoom.

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