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World News in Brief The young woman whose hospitalization triggered the discovery that her family had been imprisoned and terrorized for decades was struggling for her life yesterday. Kerstin Fritzl's condition was critical but stable, authorities said. The 19-year-old is one of seven children Josef Fritzl fathered with his daughter, who was held captive for 24 years in a dingy dungeon beneath his home. Kerstin, who is an induced coma, is undergoing dialysis because of the effects of lack of oxygen. Authorities were providing little information about Fritzl, 73, who has confessed to locking up daughter Elisabeth since she was 18 and repeatedly raping her. He said he incinerated the body of one of her children, who died in infancy. Austrian police are also looking into possible links between a young woman's killing and Fritzl. The head of Upper Austrian police said investigators are looking into whether the incest suspect had anything to do with the killing of Martina Posch 22 years ago. He said no concrete links between the suspect and the murder had surfaced, but added the police would check whether Fritzl had an alibi. (AP) The killings of three U.S. soldiers in separate attacks in Baghdad pushed the American death toll for April up to 47, making it the deadliest month since September. One soldier died when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb. The other died of wounds sustained when he was attacked by small-arms fire, the military said yesterday. Both incidents occurred Tuesday in northwestern Baghdad. A third soldier died in a roadside bombing Tuesday night in the east of the capital, the military said. In all, at least 4,059 members of the U.S. military have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. (AP) Advertisement Five suspected Taliban militants blew themselves up in a house in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday, after being surrounded by Afghan security forces, said an Interior Ministry official. This was the first time Taliban militants have been detected in any numbers inside the city they have vowed to target this year in their fight to overthrow the pro-Western Afghan government. Afghan security forces surrounded a house where the suspected militants were holed up during the night and clashes erupted. (Reuters) Prince William, second in line to the British throne, paid a secret visit to Afghanistan to meet frontline British troops, his office said on yesterday. A spokesman said the 25-year-old prince, recently awarded his Royal Air Force wings after a training course, flew a military transport plane for part of the journey to Kandahar. He spent three hours with British service personnel at the airfield before returning home, the spokesman said. The trip made headlines in British newspapers but sparked questions about whether it was simply a public relations exercise. William was criticized recently for flying military Chinook helicopters to a bachelor party for his cousin and to his girlfriend Kate Middleton's family home. (Reuters) One of the hundreds of young polygamist-sect members taken into state custody has given birth to a healthy boy while child welfare officials, state troopers and fellow sect members stood watch outside the maternity ward. Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the state Child Protective Services, said the mother is younger than 18, and will remain with her new son in a nearby foster-care facility until a formal custody hearing will determine the pair's fate sometime before June 5. Rod Parker, a spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect, contends the girl is 18. State officials have the girl on a list of minors taken into state custody. (AP) Investigators have discovered a history of physical injuries, including broken bones, in children taken from a polygamist sect's Texas ranch compound, the chief of state protective services told legislators yesterday. Commissioner Carey Cockerell said that examinations have revealed numerous injuries, including broken bones, in 41 very young children. State authorities removed all 463 children living at the ranch during an April 3 raid intended to turn up evidence of underage girls being forced into polygamous marriages. (AP) Chinese police have rescued 167 village children sold to work as slave laborers in a city in the booming southern province of Guangdong, newspapers said yesterday. The children, all from the ethnic Yi minority, came from poor families in the Liangshan region of the southwestern province of Sichuan more than 600 miles away. "In all, 167 child laborers have been rescued so far, 107 boys and 60 girls," the Hong Kong-based Wen Wei Po paper said. China announced a nationwide crackdown on slavery and child labor last year after reports that hundreds of poor farmers, children and mentally disabled people were forced to work in kilns and mines in Shanxi province and neighboring Henan. (Reuters) A moderate earthquake hit a mountainous region of Northern California on Tuesday night. There are no immediate reports of injury or damage. The magnitude-5.2 temblor struck at 8:03 p.m., centered about 11 miles southeast of the town of Willow Creek in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Willow Creek is about 320 miles north of San Francisco. Because of its depth, few aftershocks were felt, scientists said. (AP) DNA tests performed in the U.S. have proved that bone fragments exhumed in the Ural Mountains belong to two children of Russia's last czar, Russian news agencies reported Wednesday. Eduard Rossel, governor of the Sverdlovsk region, told a news conference that the fragments, dug up last year near the city Yekaterinburg, were indeed those of Crown Prince Alexei and his sister, Maria. "We have now found the entire family." Researchers dug up the bone shards near the place where Bolsheviks executed Czar Nicholas II, his family and several servants in 1918. (AP) A U.S. surfer was killed in a shark attack off Mexico's southern Pacific coast, officials said Tuesday. The San Francisco man bled to death on Monday after a gray shark bit his right thigh, leaving a 15-inch wound, the Guerrero state Public Safety Department said in a statement. The U.S. Embassy in Mexico could not immediately confirm the man's name, but local authorities identified him as a 24-year-old who was surfing with a fellow American. The other man was not injured. Shark attacks are relatively rare in Mexico. In 2006, the International Shark Attack File at the Florida Museum of Natural History reported only one attack in Mexico, which was not fatal. (AP) Bookmark to del.icio.us   Hamas on the Holocaust Al-Aqsa TV claims Jews concocted the Holocaust. Grasping genocide How a non-Jew in Israel came to understand the Holocaust.

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