1 Israeli killed, 2 wounded in West Bank shooting

Palestinians shot and killed one Israeli and two others wounded Sunday beginning near tomb of Joseph, a Jewish holy site in the Palestinian city of Nablus, Israeli military and rescue services said.

The circumstances of the shooting were not immediately obvious. An elderly man of about 30 years reaches an Israeli base outside Nablus before dying of his injuries, the army and rescue services said.

Two others, about 20 and 17, reached a Jewish settlement nearby with gunshot wounds and was taken to the hospital.

Jewish worshippers often enter Nablus with a military escort located within an area to pray on the small building traditionally identified as the tomb of the biblical Patriarch, held the Palestinian. These visits are coordinated with the Palestinian security forces. Visit the Israelis Friday, however, seems to have not been coordinated with each side.

Israel Army Radio reported that the faithful identified as Palestinian police snipers.

Jibril al-Bakri, the Palestinian Governor of Nablus, said the Palestinian Authority "studied the incident internally."

A senior Palestinian official said police Palestinians seem to have been involved in the shooting. He spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing.

The Palestinian Authority governs parts of the West Bank under the control of overall security to Israel.

Nablus moved from Israeli to Palestinian control in the 1990s in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, but Israel retained control on the building of the Tomb. In 2000, after deadly fighting autour Tomb, Israel military torn off and handed over control to the Palestinians. Later, a mob ransacked and torched the building.

The tomb was restored later. Recent years, through the improvement of the conditions of security in the West Bank and reinforced cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian security forces, Jewish worshippers have travelled to the grave in organized convoys.

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Israelis killed in West Bank shooting Incident, armed, said

April 24, 2011, 6: 09 pm EDT by Gwen Ackerman and Alisa Odenheimer

(Updates with comments of the Minister of defence in the fourth paragraph).

April 24 (Bloomberg) - a Palestinian policeman in the West Bank killed an Israeli civilian and four others wounded after opened fire at a "suspicious movement" Office of the spokesman for the Israeli army said in a statement by e-mail.Palestinian officials informed the Israeli army of the shooting and the two parties will hold a meeting to discuss the incident later today, according to the Declaration. The Israelis between the Palestinian city of Nablus, to visit the tomb of Joseph, a sacred site of Jewish, without coordination with the army as required by law, said the statement.The shooting came in the rise of tensions in the West Bank following stabbed to death in March of an Israeli family in their house in a Jewish settlement. Two Palestinians were arrested in the attack. "Minister of defence, Ehud Barak condemned today shooting, the call to the PA to investigate the incident".A blunder in the coordination of security cannot justify such an incident, "Barak said in a statement via e-mail today."

-Editor: Dick Schumacher, Shanthy Nambiar

To contact the reporter on this story: Gwen Ackerman Jerusalem to gackerman@bloomberg.net Alisa Odenheimer Jerusalem; at aodenheimer@bloomberg.net

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2 famous photojournalists killed in Libya

Two acclaimed photojournalists were killed Wednesday while covering the fighting in Misrata in Libya.

Director appointed to the Oscar and photojournalist Tim Hetherington die during a mortar attack, in the centre of Misrata a rebel-held city in the West of the Libya which was besieged by forces loyal to leader Muammar Gaddafi for weeks.

Tim Hetherington, shown here attend a projection of the city of New York of Restrepo in February, was killed by an attack Wednesday in Misrata in Libya mortar. (Eugene Gologursky/Getty Images)

Photojournalist Chris Hondros, Getty photo agency was seriously wounded in the same attack and later succumbed to his injuries, according to the Director of Photography Getty, Pancho Bernasconi.

Two other photojournalists suffered less serious injuries.

In 2011, Hetherington has been appointed for an Oscar for co-director of Airborne Combat film Restrepo, the history of the 2nd platoon of the company of battle in the 173rd team on its deployment to Afghanistan in 2007 and 2008. The title refers to the outpost of platoon, which was named after a popular soldier, Juan Restrepo, who was killed at the beginning of the battle.

The British origin Hetherington was also winner of the World Press Photo of the honour of the year 2007.

A tweet under the name of TimHetherington dated 19 April read: "in the besieged Libyan city Misrata." Blind bombardment by the forces of [Gadhafi]. No sign of NATO. ?

Chris Hondros, Getty photo agency died of his injuries after an attack by the forces of the Libyan Government in Misrata. (ChrisHondros.com)

"Tim was in Libya to continue its ongoing multimedia project to highlight humanitarian issues in time of war and conflict," family of the Hetherington said in a statement. "It will be never regretted."

Hondros is an award-winning war photographer covering many conflicts in Africa and the Middle East for magazines and newspapers around the world. Prize of the American, including World Press Photo top honors and Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the higher prices in the photography of the war. He was also nominated for a Pulitzer Prize.

The four photographers are the latest victims of a situation more desperate in Misrata. Aid groups that the city is facing a serious humanitarian crisis as food and medicine be missed.

A Libyan rebel runs up to an engraving of the stairwell in Misrata on Wednesday. This photo was taken by Chris Hondros, who was killed shortly after sending the image. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images)

NATO aircraft overflew Misrata Wednesday, but have not carried out air strikes, Associated Press reported.

Rebels control the area of the port of Misrata, while Gaddafi forces are deployed along the streets of Tripoli, a downtown thoroughfare. This street was the site of the mortar attack that struck the journalists.

Misrata was besieged for almost two months, but Gaddafi forces have intensified their assault on the city in the last days. Civilian casualties are indicated to be "serious", according to the UN Human Rights Commissioner.

The Obama administration announced Wednesday to give the Libyan opposition 25 million in aid. This is the first direct us aid to the rebels.

The assistance will be non-lethal, which means step of weapons or ammunition will be involved.

The White House said Congress rebel opposition, led by the National Council of transition from Benghazi, will be offered up to $ 25 million in American surplus property to help protect civilians in rebel areas threatened by the forces of Gaddafi.

The list of products includes elements such as supplies medical, uniforms, boots, tents, personal protection equipment, radios, and meals.

Earlier Wednesday, Italy and France announced that they will join Britain by sending military advisers to help organize the poorly trained opposition forces. France has also pledged to intensify airstrikes on the forces of Gaddafi.

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Dr. Qué. admits having killed her children

A cardiologist of Quebec charged with two counts of murder in the first degree admitted that he stabbed her two children in 2009, but it is not an act of premeditated claims.

Guy Turcotte defence team made the admission Monday, in the double murder trial in Saint-Jér?me cardiologist.

In a statement filed by his defence lawyer Pierre Poupart, Turcotte admits that he committed an unlawful act and that it caused the death of her two children.

Olivier (5) and Anne-Sophie (3) was stabbed to death by their father, he admits. (CBC)

But Turcotte of plans to fight against the claim that the murders were premeditated.

Poupart told jurors they will determine the State of mind Turcotte at the time of the crimes, and if he knew what he did.

Children Turcotte has - of five years and three years Anne-Sophie - Olivier were found stabbed to death on 21 February 2009, inside a House of their father leased in the Laurentians.

Turcotte was also found in the House, under a bed, after he ingested washer.

He was charged with and found fit to stand trial in an investigation preliminary hearing last year.

Turcotte sobbed in court as counsel for the Attorney General Claudia Carbonneau describes the details of the double murder.

Crime scene technician gave jurors a view inside the House: two knives, two blood-stained, a container of windshield washer near vacuum in a bathroom and vomits on the floor.

It had mother Turcotte, Margaret Fournier testified Monday on the last telephone conversation with his son until the children were killed.

Turcotte, cardiologist, faces two counts of first degree murder. (Canadian Press)

Turcotte deplored his marriage missed to Isabelle Gaston, whom he had separated a month earlier.

Fournier said his son was depressed and told him that Gaston was cheating on him.

"There lasts for weeks," Fournier cited his son saying. She said that he was told "it was in my home in my bed."

His mother advised him to look forward, but his son does not seem to hear. But then he said something that struck Fournier as characters.

"I love you, I tell dad I love it," Fournier said, remembering his son repeating these words repeated during the discussion of one hour.

"When I heard this speech, I was afraid that he would take his own life," she said.

He had been drinking fearful, Fournier was driving to his son on the night, but her husband said to wait.

Fournier has arrived the next day to find no grandchildren in view, locked doors and shades drawn to the single-family in a rural district in Piedmont.

"Maybe my husband always had hope [things were OK], but I had no hope at all the", she testified.

Fournier cooling 911 call pleaded with police rushing to the rented house was played in court late Monday, causing some tears more Turcotte.

If found guilty, he could face life imprisonment.

About 30 witnesses are expected to testify at the trial, including the police, ambulance technicians and family.

Gaston, a doctor herself, should also take the position.

The trial is expected to last between six and eight weeks.

Police band access of blocks of a house in Piedmont, Que., where the bodies of two young children were found on February 21, 2009. (Graham Hughes/Canadian Press) Records of the Canadian Press return to the accessibility links

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