PEACEKEEPER MISSING: A French soldier with the European peacekeeping force in Chad is missing and another was wounded after their vehicle accidentally strayed into neighboring Sudan, a French Defense Ministry official said Monday. A recovery effort was met with hostile fire, said Commandant Dan Harvey, a spokesman for the EU peacekeeping force. It was not immediately clear who fired on the soldiers.
CRASH IN NEPAL: A UN helicopter crashed Monday while flying in bad weather in Nepal’s mountainous east, killing seven UN staff and three crew, UN officials said. The helicopter went down about 125 miles east of Katmandu as it was returning to the capital from a Maoist temporary military site in eastern Nepal’s mountainous region, UN officials said. Nepalese authorities said the helicopter was flying in bad weather.
SERBIA CLAIMS RAIL: Serbia said Monday it was reclaiming control of a 30-mile stretch of rail line in northern Kosovo in defiance of ethnic Albanian authorities in Kosovo’s capital, Pristina. The claim — two weeks after Kosovo declared independence — came as Serb police said they would not report to ethnic Albanian authorities.
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