Vienna – A Bosnian who tried to enter the U.S. Embassy in Vienna with a backpack filled with explosives, nails and Islamic literature was arrested Monday after the bag set off a metal detector and the man fled, authorities said.
Police sealed off the neighborhood as a precaution. Officers patrolled the area with bomb-sniffing dogs.
The suspect was described only as a 42-year-old native of Bosnia-Herzegovina who now lives in Austria.
Two rescued, four dead in volcanic eruption
Sana, Yemen – NATO ships responding to a volcanic eruption on a tiny Yemeni island rescued two survivors Monday but also pulled four dead from the Red Sea, officials said. Two people remained missing.
The eruption began Sunday evening on Jabal al-Tair, an island about 2 miles across that holds only a Yemeni military base. The eruption collapsed part of the island and covered the rest with lava, Yemeni news agency SABA reported.
Both sides claim victory in parliamentary elections
Kiev, Ukraine – Ukraine’s reunited Orange Revolution allies and the incumbent prime minister both declared victory Monday in early parliamentary elections, dimming hopes for an end to turmoil.
The parties led by President Viktor Yushchenko and charismatic opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko held a strong combined lead and put forward plans for forming a new Cabinet. But Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych also claimed to have won.
With just over 93 percent of the ballots counted, Yanukovych’s Party of Regions led with 34 percent, while Tymo shenko’s bloc followed with just under 31 percent and Yushchenko’s party had 14.3 percent.
Yanukovych said the election gave him “carte blanche” to stay at the helm. Voting results from eastern and southern regions, where Yanukovych traditionally draws his support, were trickling in slowly, prompting the Orange camp to suspect fraud.
Koreans cheer as North, South meet
Seoul, South Korea – North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il greeted South Korean President Roh Moo-
Hyun in Pyongyang before thousands of cheering residents today to begin only the second summit between the two countries since the peninsula’s division after World War II. North Koreans and a military honor guard heralded the leaders’ first encounter outside a cultural hall in the North Korean capital after Roh traveled 3 1/2 hours by road from Seoul.
