(CNN) -- Thousands of people across the globe took to the streets on Saturday in annual demonstrations for May Day, the annual event marked by demonstrations demanding better working conditions.

Known as International Workers' Day, the holiday draws thousands to peacefully protest. Others, as in Athens, Greece, clashed with police amid growing anger over the government's stiff plans to grapple with the country's debt.

About 12,000 people in Athens were on the streets, waving red flags and at times surging toward a line of police, who wore helmets and carried riot shields. Those disturbances led to injuries and arrests. A satellite truck was torched and two ATMs, the glass frontage of a bank and a car were damaged.

In Russia, more than 2.5 million people participated in traditional May Day celebrations in 900 cities and towns, the country's trade union federation said. The largest gatherings took place in Krasnodar, Yakutsk, Vladivostok, Izhevsk, Moscow and St. Petersburg. The people spoke out in favor of decent salaries and stable employment.

Watch May Day demonstration in Paris, France.

According to CNN sources and state-run news reports, there were many demonstrations.

Turkey:

For this first time in 30 years, tens of thousands of union members and leftist political activists gathered for the first legally sanctioned May Day celebration in Istanbul's central Taksim Square.

Germany:

Several protesters were detained after clashes with police in Hamburg. Seventeen police officers were reportedly injured when confronting demonstrators who they said were throwing rocks and setting garbage cans on fire.

Cuba:

A throng marched through Revolution Plaza in Havana. Crowds are usually big in Cuba on International Workers' Day but government officials said the turnout was a signal to Washington that the country is unified and supports its leaders.

United States:

Several dozen cities braced for protests against Arizona's controversial new immigration law.

Asia:

Thousands gathered in several Asian cities for its annual May Day demonstrations. They demanded improved working conditions and wage increases. Clashes between police and protesters were seen on TV.

Iran:

Protests popped up at the Labor Ministry, where demonstrators clashed with police and shouted "Death to the dictator."

CNN's Diana Magnay, Ivan Watson, Yesim Comert, Azadeh Ansari and Maxim Tkachenko contributed to this report

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Answer: Athens

Answer: Thousands

Answer: International Workers' Day,

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Summary:
International Workers' Day draws thousands of demonstrators annually .
Truck torched; ATMs, front of bank and car damaged in Athens, Greece .
More than 2.5 million people participated in May Day celebrations in Russia .
In the U.S., several dozen cities braced for protests against Arizona's new immigration law .


(CNN) -- Thousands of people gathered Tuesday in Marrowbone, Kentucky, to lay to rest nine people who were killed in a crash in central Kentucky last week.

John and Sadie Esh were killed when a tractor-trailer crossed the median on Interstate 65 and smashed into their van as they traveled to Iowa for a wedding. Four of the couple's children -- Leroy, Rachel, Rose and Anna -- were also killed, according to the Rev. Leroy Kauffman with the Marrowbone Christian Brotherhood. Leroy's wife, Naomi, and a baby the couple adopted were also killed, as was Rachel's fiance, Joel Gingerich, he said. A family friend, also in the van, was killed as well. The driver of the tractor-trailer also died.

Two boys, age 3 and 5, whom Leroy and Naomi adopted, survived.

"They have lived their lives, God seemed fit to take them home, and we rest in that," said Michael Kauffman, a member of the Mennonite community. He said family and friends had traveled from all over the United States to attend the funeral.

CNN affiliate WBKO, quoting a media liaison at the services, said about 3,000 people attended.

"The amount of people who came is overwhelming to say the least," Kauffman said. "We have been very blessed with the amount of people who are here."

The nine were to be buried in a grassy spot where John and Sadie's son Johnny was buried. He died while on a mission trip in the Ukraine three years ago, Leroy Kauffman said last week.

"I have not been to the grave site, but I feel like it's the way it should be," Michael Kauffman said.

The family was traveling to the wedding of a woman who was on the mission trip with Johnny, Leroy Kauffman said.

The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash. No cause has been given.

Question:
Who survived the crash?
How many people survived the accident?
Where was the van headed?
Where was the wedding located?
What hit the van?
How many family members were in van?

Answer: Two boys,

Answer: Two boys,

Answer: Iowa

Answer: Iowa

Answer: tractor-trailer

Answer: nine

Summary:
9 family members, friend were in van driving to wedding in Iowa .
Tractor-trailer crossed median and hit van; its driver also died .
Two boys, age 3 and 5, survived .


(CNN) -- Thousands of people turned out Saturday in the southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt for the funeral of politician Joerg Haider, a popular but polarizing figure who led right-wing Austrian politics for decades. Harald Scheucher, mayor of Klagenfurt, speaks in front of the coffin of Joerg Haider Saturday. Among those attending the service at the town's central Neuen Platz square were Austrian President Heinz Fischer and Chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. Haider's widow sat in the front row with her two daughters, all of them dressed in black. "Many people expected things of Joerg Haider that they themselves weren't able to fulfill, and he too expected things of people that he wasn't able to fulfill," Gusenbauer said at the funeral. "Therefore his death, and the end of his life, may be a time to think about whether death's only consolation is that we can now reconcile things that seemed irreconcilable during his lifetime." Haider's coffin was draped in the yellow, red and white flag of the southern state of Carinthia, where he was governor, and topped with red roses. Haider, 58, died last Saturday in a car accident while driving out of Klagenfurt, the state capital. He had just passed another car on a highway when his car hit a concrete post and rolled over several times, police said. His spokesman said this week that Haider was drunk at the time of the crash. Besides being Carinthia's governor, Haider was also head of the right-wing BZO party (Alliance for the Future of Austria), which he founded in 2005 after years with the conservative Freedom Party. Haider came to prominence in 1986, when he became head of the Freedom Party while still in his 30s. A politician who projected youth and style, Haider appealed to many working-class Austrians, promising to cut their taxes and give money to those with children. Some older Austrians responded to his demands for strict law and order. But he drew widespread criticism both at home and abroad for his anti-immigrant stance and remarks considered anti-Semitic, and in 1991 he publicly praised Nazi Germany's employment policy. Asked in 2000 about the statement, Haider told CNN the quote was taken from a long speech and that he never praised the Third Reich. He called the remarks a mistake and publicly denounced Nazism. But Haider continued to draw attention for his controversial remarks. They included an address to veterans of the Waffen S.S., Adolf Hitler's elite soldiers, in which he praised their character. The address created an uproar after it was broadcast on German television. Haider said he had simply been speaking to elderly citizens of Carinthia who included some former Waffen S.S. members. Despite the controversy, Haider said he was not racist: "You will not find any anti-Semitic position in our party program, and you will not find any anti-Semitic speech or statement by me." The policies of the Freedom Party drew international attention during the elections in 1999. Party campaign posters urged voters to stop the flood of immigration and used the term "over-foreignization," the same word used by Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels in 1933 to criticize what he called Jewish influence in Germany. Haider told CNN he favored restricting immigration simply because of Austria's small size, but that he wanted to keep an open border for refugees. It was his family background, Haider said, that kept singling him out for criticism. Haider's parents were activists in the Nazi Party long before Austrian-born Hitler annexed Austria to Germany in 1938. Haider's father, Robert, volunteered for the S.A., the notorious brown shirts who terrorized Jews and others before the war. He then served in the German army. His biographer, Melanie Sully, said Haider felt a strong sense of loyalty to his parents and those in the war generation. "He feels that what they sacrificed after the war in rebuilding Austria in very difficult circumstances needs to be honored and that they weren't all criminals," Sully told CNN in 2000. Under Haider's leadership,

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How did Haider die?
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Where did Haider get in a car accident?
What was Haider criticized for?
Where was Joerg Haider's funeral?

Answer: car accident

Answer: car accident

Answer: southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt

Answer: politician Joerg Haider,

Answer: southern Austrian city of Klagenfurt

Answer: Klagenfurt,

Answer: his anti-immigrant stance and remarks considered anti-Semitic,

Answer: Klagenfurt

Summary:
Thousands attend the funeral of right-wing politician Joerg Haider in Austria .
Chancellor: Many people expected things of Haider they themselves could not fulfill .
Haider died last Saturday in a car accident, spokesman confirms he was drunk .
Haider drew support from many but criticized for his praise of some Nazi policies .


(CNN) -- Thousands of protesters in cities across the United States waved American flags as they rallied Saturday against Arizona's tough new immigration law and pushed for national immigration reform.

"Si se puede," "Yes we can" and "Boycott Arizona" were common refrains for groups protesting from Los Angeles, California, to New York City.

May 1 is traditionally a rallying day for supporters of immigration reform. But protesters across the country said they were galvanized by Arizona's recent passage of a law cracking down on illegal immigration.

The new Arizona law requires immigrants to carry their alien registration documents at all times and requires police to question people if there is reason to suspect they are in the United States illegally. Critics say it will lead to discrimination and racial profiling.

But Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer has said the law is necessary because the federal government has failed to enforce border security with Mexico, allowing hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants to move into the state. She said changes to the law she approved Friday, which clarify that police could only stop suspected illegal immigrants while enforcing some other law or ordinance, should eliminate concerns about racial profiling.

But criticism of the law was clear among tens of thousands of protesters flooding the streets of Los Angeles on Saturday, where organizers said they hoped to send a strong message with the number of people turning out.

"Does my face look illegal?" one sign read.

Karen Rayner, a spokeswoman for the Los Angeles Police Department, said 50,000 people marched at the demonstration's peak. Rayner said the rally was "very peaceful" and no one was arrested.

Police arrested about 20 protesters -- including a U.S. congressman -- at Saturday's rally in Washington.

Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, was among a group of protesters who were arrested for blocking the sidewalk outside the White House in what they said was a planned act of civil disobedience. The protesters wore T-shirts that read "ARREST ME NOT MY FAMILY" and "ARREST ME NOT MY FRIENDS."

A smaller group of about 200 people rallied outside the State Capitol in Phoenix, protesting the new law and asking the federal government to step in to stop it.

About 1,000 people gathered in New York City's Union Square on Saturday afternoon.

Cesar Mack, an international studies student at City College of New York, told CNN he was an undocumented immigrant from Peru.

"I've been living in this country six years and I'm still fighting for immigration reform," he said.

CNN iReporter Julio Ortiz-Teissonniere said he saw signs in Arabic, French, Spanish and English at the New York rally. One sign in the crowd particularly caught his eye: "Todos somos Arizona" -- "We are all Arizona."

"They were trying to convey that message that it's a city and nation based on immigration. Everybody came from somewhere else," he said.

CNN's Susan Candiotti, Ted Rowlands, Ione Molinares and Casey Wian contributed to this report.

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Question: how many people gathered

Answer: Rep. Luis Gutierrez,

Answer: 1,000

Answer: cities across the United States

Answer: Arizona's tough new immigration law

Answer: sidewalk outside the White House

Answer: Rep. Luis Gutierrez,

Answer: Thousands

Summary:
Rallies unfold in cities across the U.S. against Arizona's new immigration .
U.S. Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Illinois, was arrested during a rally in Washington .
Gutierrez and others were protesting outside the White House on Saturday .
About 1,000 people gathered in New York City's Union Square on Saturday afternoon .


(CNN) -- Thousands of taxpayers across the country aren't getting their refund or stimulus checks because criminals have stolen their Social Security numbers in an identity theft scam, CNN has learned. Some victims don't learn about identity theft until the IRS questions them about income in their name. "We see a lot of activity right now, because clearly folks who are trying to perpetrate a fraud have to get their claims in early before a true taxpayer files their return," said Nina Olsen, the national taxpayer advocate for the Internal Revenue Service. Olsen, whose independent office is set up to help taxpayers, said her office fielded several thousand complaints this year connected to the scam. The Federal Trade Commission reported that approximately 50,000 taxpayers complained about tax fraud and employment-related identity theft during 2006, compared with 18,000 in 2002. "It's a huge nightmare," Olsen said. "Basically, their life can be taken over by just about every approach, trying to prove that they are who they are and other people are not. And when you think about how central the Social Security number is to banking, to credit, to school applications, for financial aid, just for everything you can think of -- plus your taxes -- it has a significant impact on a person's life." That's what happened to Brenton King, a 25-year-old father and student from Orem, Utah. King said he was 17 when someone stole his wallet at a ski resort. Over the past four years, at least five people have used his Social Security number to report income. And since the criminals earned income on his number and never paid taxes, he and his wife, Jennifer, can't get any tax refunds from the IRS or their government stimulus check even though he reported the theft several years ago to police and the IRS. Under the government's economic stimulus plan, 130 million people were supposed to received tax rebate checks from $300 and up last year. "We want to put that money in the bank," Jennifer King said. "We want to be able to put money down on a home." The Kings said the ordeal has been frustrating because they know when they file their tax return every year that they won't get the money back that they are owed. Initially, they said, it was difficult dealing with the IRS, which they said made Brenton feel as if he were the criminal. "The fear is it will happen for the rest of our lives," Brenton King said. Sen. Max Baucus, D-Montana, said it takes the IRS an average of about a year "to sort out who is the real taxpayer." "In the meantime, the victim's tax accounts get frozen," Baucus, the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, said in a written statement. "The IRS issues no refund. The money that the taxpayer was planning on doesn't come. The taxpayer waits in tax limbo, for months and months." Baucus, who led a hearing into the issue in 2008, said other taxpayers don't learn that they are victims of identity theft until years later. "Victims first realize that other people are using their identities when the IRS contacts them. The IRS asks them why they did not report the income that appears on W-2 forms with their names on them," he said. And Sen. Chuck Grassley, the ranking Republican on Baucus' committee, said the IRS doesn't do enough to combat tax-related identity theft. He said the IRS does not prosecute, "and that's not very helpful. It sends a signal that you get a free pass if you're using IRS instruments." But IRS spokesman Dean Patterson called preventing identity theft "a top priority" for federal tax collectors and said, "we are committing significant resources to address the challenges posed in protecting taxpayers' identity information." "We have established a special unit dedicated to resolving tax issues incurred by identity theft victims and special tracking codes to monitor returns and prevent further

Question: where Tax fraud reports jump between 2002 and 2006?

Question: What is a priority?

Question: what Senator says it can take a year for IRS?

Question: How long does it take?

Answer: across the country

Answer: preventing identity theft

Answer: Max Baucus, D-Montana,

Answer: the IRS an average of about a year "to sort out who is the real taxpayer."

Summary:
Tax fraud reports jump between 2002 and 2006, FTC reports .
Senator says it can take a year for IRS to sort out identity theft .
Agency says that preventing such fraud is a priority .


(CNN) -- Thousands of women demonstrated Monday in front of Yemen's foreign ministry in the capital, Sanaa, demanding U.N. intervention in the ongoing unrest in the Persian Gulf nation, residents and eyewitnesses said.

The protest comes a day after the first woman was killed in a demonstration against the government, according to opposition activists.

The women called for sanctions against President Ali Abdullah Saleh and asked that he be tried by the International Criminal Court.

They also alleged that snipers were on the rooftop of the foreign ministry Sunday.

The protests came hours after gunfire and loud explosions reverberated throughout the capital early Monday.

Medics in Change Square said at least four people were killed and another 26 injured after government forces raided parts of the capital. Another eight people died and 20 were injured in government raids on civilian property, said Abdulqawi al-Qaisi, a prominent opposition leader and head of the Sadeq Ahmar media office.

"The death toll is expected to rise as a number of the injured are in critical condition," he said.

According to eyewitnesses, government security forces clashed with tribesmen loyal to Hashid tribal leader Sadeq Al-Ahmar in the Hasabah neighborhood in northern Sanaa. Government forces attacked the tribal leader's family residences, al-Qaisi said.

"The government attacks against innocent civilians and the Ahmar family continued for hours and hundreds of explosions were heard throughout the morning, causing fear throughout the capital," he said.

Residents and witnesses also reported that the Republican Guard was bombarding the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division, loyal to Maj. Gen. Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar, who withdrew his support for Saleh in March.

The embattled Saleh said Sunday that "strong documentation of the cooperation" between al Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood indicate a military coup that is destabilizing the country. He described the opposition as "insane people, who can't sleep and only want to take power."

"The international community must stop Saleh from killing his own people," al-Qaisi said Monday. "If no intervention takes place, he will continue killing and the casualties will rise."

On Sunday night, three people died in Sanaa when a rocket-propelled grenade hit bystanders, medics said.

Earlier Sunday, Yemeni security forces opened fired on demonstrators gathering for a planned march in the capital, killing five people and injuring 54 others, according to a medic on the scene.

In a separate demonstration in the city of Taiz, a government sniper killed a woman with a shot to the head, medics and eyewitnesses said.

Medics identified the woman as Aziza Othman Kaleb. Snipers also injured four others who were next to the woman in the march, the sources said.

Opposition activists said the slain woman was 20 and said she was the first female to be killed while marching against the government. CNN could not independently confirm that claim.

Activist Atiaf Alwazir called the shooting of a woman "a sign that the government security forces will not really stop shooting, even if there are women."

"Women may have been beaten, arrested at times -- but never directly shot at and this is a scary escalation," she said.

The crackdown in Sanaa was also bloody, doctors said.

"The injured are entering the hospital by the minute. We need help. We call on people to donate blood for the injured," said Mohammed Al-Qubati, who works at a field hospital in Change Square.

Five of the wounded are in critical condition, he said from the square that has become the center of protests against Saleh.

Protesters carried signs with slogans including: "Saleh kills and the world watches. Is this the justice the West preaches?" according to witnesses and activists.

Others carried flowers or signs that said: "We are not armed, Don't attack us with gunfire," witnesses said Sunday.

CNN has not independently confirmed the details of casualties in Sanaa or Taiz, and the government has not yet responded to requests for comment.

Saleh, meeting Sunday with Yemeni leaders, said members of the U.N.

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Question: Who is asking for sanctions against the Yemeni President?

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Question: what was happend in yemen

Question: How many people are dead in Yemen?

Answer: that the Republican Guard was bombarding the headquarters of the 1st Armored Division,

Answer: The women called for sanctions against President Ali Abdullah

Answer: women

Answer: Ali Abdullah Saleh

Answer: women demonstrated

Answer: five

Summary:
NEW: At least 12 people are dead in Yemen, officials say .
Women protesters ask for sanctions against Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh .
Heavy gunfire and explosions are reported in the capital of Yemen .
Protesters have been calling for Saleh to step down for months .


(CNN) -- Three Americans rescued last week from captivity in the Colombian jungle left a medical center for their homes Saturday, hoping for some time out of the spotlight as they reconnect with loved ones. Left to right, Thomas Howes, Keith Stansell and Marc Gonsalves address reporters before flying home Saturday. Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes -- hostages of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for more than five years -- left the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas. "There's family members that are waiting for us, and just imagine if you hadn't seen your family in 5½ years," Stansell said, asking the media to allow the former captives some space. "Let us go home and be family men again." "We're going to come out and we're going to talk, but right now, what we want to do is rest," Gonsalves said. All three were headed home to Florida, and Stansell and Howes flashed their new Florida driver's licenses before they boarded a plane. The three men had been undergoing a reintegration process at the medical center. FARC had held the three U.S. government contractors since February 2003 after their plane went down in a remote region of the South American country. They and former Colombian presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt were among 15 hostages rescued on July 2 in a Colombian military operation. The three Americans arrived at Brooke Army Medical Center later that day. The three Americans urged the media not to forget the hundreds of other hostages still held by FARC. "Don't forget the people that are still there," Stansell said. "There are fellow hostages that are still there. Some have 10 years [as a hostage]," he said. "Right this minute, they're in chains, looking for food, and they're on the run. And their families haven't seen them in 10 years." It is estimated that FARC holds some 750 hostages. The leftist rebel group took up arms in 1964 and grew from a rag-tag band of 48 fighters to a self-styled "people's army" of more than 21,000 combatants in 2001, according to Colombian government figures. The government now estimates the FARC fighting force has dwindled to around 8,000 after a wave of desertions. On Saturday, the rescued Americans talked of looking forward to spending time with their relatives. "We're going to go home now. We're going to rest, we're going to unwind for about a month and a half," Gonsalves said.

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Question: what ex farc hostages leave?

Question: What does FARC  stand for?

Question: Where is Columbia?

Question: Who do the freed men want to spend time with?

Question: When did the hostages leave the Texas medical center?

Answer: reconnect with loved ones.

Answer: to allow the former captives some space.

Answer: the media to allow the former captives some space.

Answer: "Let us go home and be family

Answer: Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes

Answer: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia

Answer: South American country.

Answer: family members

Answer: Saturday,

Summary:
Ex-FARC hostages leave Texas medical center 10 days after rescue .
Freed men ask for privacy, saying they want to spend time with relatives .
Men ask media to not forget about hostages who still held in Colombia .


(CNN) -- Three Disney monorail workers have been placed on paid leave just days after two monorail trains crashed at the Orlando, Florida, theme park, killing one of the train's operators, according to a Disney spokeswoman. Train operator Austin Wuennenberg, 21, was killed in Sunday's monorail crash. Walt Disney World spokeswoman Zoraya Suarez said the action was "part of an investigative process, not a disciplinary action." The three workers were a monorail maintenance shop member, the monorail pilot of one of the trains and a transportation manager. Disney would not name the employees. The National Transportation Safety Board, which is investigating the Sunday morning accident, is expected to be at the park for several days. "To this point in the investigation, no anomalies or malfunctions have been found with the automatic train stop system or with any mechanical components of the switch or with either trains," the NTSB said in a statement. The crash killed operator Austin Wuennenberg, 21. The operator of the other train was taken to a hospital, where he was treated and released. Additionally, six passengers on Wuennenberg's train were treated at the scene for minor injuries. Wuennenberg was piloting the "Purple" train. The other train, known as the "Pink" train, was operated by one of the employees who has since been placed on leave. The Pink train was instructed to go back through a track switch that would take it from the monorail's Epcot loop to the Magic Kingdom loop. "For undetermined reasons that are currently under investigation, the switch had not changed position needed to allow the Pink train to be routed to the Magic Kingdom loop," putting the Pink and Purple trains on a collision course, the NTSB statement said. NTSB investigators believe that Wuennenberg attempted to put his train into reverse before the collision, attempting to avoid the crash. The Orange County Sheriff's Office, which is investigating Wuennenberg's death, would not comment, citing the ongoing investigation.

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Question: What is NTSB doing?

Question: What is action a part of?

Question: What did spokeswoman say?

Question: What killed a driver?

Answer: Sunday's

Answer: have been placed on paid leave

Answer: National Transportation Safety Board,

Answer: The National Transportation Safety Board,

Answer: Sunday's

Answer: Sunday's

Answer: National Transportation Safety Board,

Answer: The National Transportation Safety Board,

Answer: monorail crash.

Answer: investigating the Sunday morning accident,

Answer: investigative process,

Answer: Disney monorail workers have been placed on paid leave

Answer: crash.

Summary:
Action is "part of an investigative process," spokeswoman says .
Workers are maintenance shop member, pilot and transportation manager .
Sunday morning crash of two trains killed one driver .
NTSB is still investigating incident .


(CNN) -- Three Pakistan international cricketers have been banned from the sport for the next five years after being found guilty at an anti-corruption hearing on Saturday.

Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir were found to have been involved in "spot-fixing" -- a practice involving illegal gambling during matches.

Butt, 26, was banned for 10 years with half of that suspended on certain conditions while Asif, 28, received a seven-year ban with 24 months suspended.

Amir, 18, was given a straight five-year penalty for his involvement in incidents during the Test series against England in August 2010.

They have 21 days to appeal in the Court of Arbitration for Sport.

The International Cricket Council announced the punishments following an independent tribunal's hearing in Qatar.

It came a day after Britain's Crown Prosecution Service charged the trio and their agent Mazhar Majeed with conspiracy to obtain and accept corrupt payments, and conspiracy to cheat.

Amir and Asif were accused of deliberately bowling no-balls -- deliveries which incur a scoring penalty and cannot dismiss batsmen -- to the instructions of Majeed, who received money from a third party, while Butt was said to be aware of the arrangement.

The conditions of the reduced sentences require Butt and Asif to refrain from further breaches of the anti-corruption code and to participate in an education program run by the Pakistan Cricket Board.

Pakistan trio to face criminal charges

The independent tribunal resumed its hearing on Saturday after adjourning on January 11.

It dismissed a charge that Butt had agreed to bat out a run-less (or "maiden")over in the match played at London's Oval ground from August 18-21, but said the player failed to disclose to the ICC's anti-corruption unit that Majeed had approached him with such a request.

The main charges stem from the following match at Lord's, the final Test of the series.

"The tribunal found that the charges under Article 2.1.1 of the Code that (respectively) Mr Asif agreed to bowl, and did bowl, a deliberate no-ball in the Lord's Test match played between Pakistan and England from 26 to 29 August 2010, Mr Amir agreed to bowl, and did bowl, two deliberate no-balls in the same Test, and Mr Butt was party to the bowling of those deliberate no-balls, were proved," it said in a statement on the ICC website on Saturday.

Amir is the youngest bowler to claim 50 Test wickets, six of which came at Lord's as Pakistan lost to England by an innings and 225 runs.

Butt has played in 33 Test matches since making his debut for Pakistan in 2003, and scored 1,889 runs. He became captain of the side in 2010 and led his country in a Test series against Australia as well as the tour of England before being replaced by Misbah-ul-Haq in the wake of the scandal.

Asif has twice tested positive for steroids, resulting in year-long bans, and in 2008 was detained for three weeks after being found in possession of illegal substances at Dubai airport.

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Who deliberately bowled no-bowls?
Who was found guilty of "spot-fixing"?
Who was the former captain?
Who was found guilty of spot-fixing?
Who was Salman Butt banned with
What former captain was banned?
what did gthe tribunal say about Butt

Answer: Amir and Asif

Answer: Mohammad Amir

Answer: Salman Butt

Answer: Former Pakistan captain Salman Butt and bowlers Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir

Answer: Mohammad Amir

Answer: Salman Butt

Answer: the player failed to disclose to the ICC's anti-corruption unit that Majeed had approached him with such a request.

Summary:
Former captain Salman Butt banned along with Mohammad Asif and Mohammad Amir .
Pakistani cricketers found guilty of "spot-fixing" during Test series in England .
Asif and Amir said to have deliberately bowled no-bowls under instruction from agent .
The tribunal said that Butt was aware of this illegal arrangement .


(CNN) -- Three Palestinians, including two sick children, have died recently while waiting for resettlement from Iraq, the U.N. refugee agency said on Friday.

UNHCR goodwill ambassador Angelina Jolie visits the Al Waleed refugee camp in August.

About 2,000 Palestinian refugees are stranded in camps along the Syrian border and face difficult living conditions, including limited medical care, the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees said.

The agency has appealed for the resettlement of "vulnerable and sick" children in Al Waleed refugee camp at the Iraqi-Syrian border.

One of those who died in the camp was a 3-year-old Palestinian boy who was suffering from rickets and pneumonia. He died a few days ago in a Ramadi hospital and then was buried in Al Waleed. The other was a 14-year-old suffering from Hodgkin's disease who died in Baghdad last week.

A 50-year-old man who was waiting to be resettled died earlier this month in Al Waleed.

The agency says seven people, including three children, have died at the camp since refugees fleeing attackers began arriving at the border in March 2006.

About 30 to 40 people arrive at the Al Waleed camp each week, the UNHCR reports.

The agency has been pursuing medical resettlement.

"UNHCR has helped resettle one family of eight with several sick children from this camp to Norway last August. Another 11 medical cases submitted for resettlement are awaiting approval," the agency said, which is working to identify other medical cases.

And it is urging the resettlement of the entire group.

"UNHCR has sought solutions for the whole group since last year and has only received positive indications from Sudan and Chile," the agency said.

Thousands of Palestinians have lived in Iraq, with some going there when Israel was formed and others born there.

The UNHCR notes that some got "preferential treatment" under the regime of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. But they have been the targets of violence since he was toppled. E-mail to a friend

Question: What did the U.N. agency appeal for?

Question: Who said 30 to 40 refugees arrive at border camps each week?

Question: Who appeals for medical resettlement of Palestinians in Iraq camps ?

Question: What did UNHCR say?

Question: Where did Palestineans camp?

Question: U.N appeals for what?

Question: What's the number of Palestinians in camps in Syria?

Question: What is the number of refugees arriving in camps?

Question: Amount of refugees in camp?

Question: what boarder are the camps along

Question: who camps along border

Question: Who has about 2,000 Palestinians in camps along Iraq-Syria border?

Answer: the resettlement of "vulnerable and sick" children in Al Waleed refugee camp at the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Answer: UNHCR

Answer: U.N. High Commissioner

Answer: About 30 to 40 people arrive at the Al Waleed camp each week,

Answer: Syrian border

Answer: the resettlement of "vulnerable and sick" children in Al Waleed refugee camp at the Iraqi-Syrian border.

Answer: 2,000

Answer: 30 to 40 people

Answer: About 2,000

Answer: Syrian border

Answer: Palestinian refugees

Answer: Al Waleed

Summary:
U.N. agency appeals for medical resettlement of Palestinians in Iraq camps .
About 2,000 Palestinians in camps along Iraq-Syria border .
30 to 40 refugees arrive at border camp each week, UNHCR says .


(CNN) -- Three Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, police officers became the first department fatalities since 1995 Saturday morning while responding to a domestic dispute call, Police Chief Nathan Harper said. Law enforcement from several jurisdictions respond to a shooting standoff at Pittsburgh home Saturday. "We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty at one time at one call," Harper said. Suspect Richard Poplawski surrendered around 11 a.m. outside the Stanton Heights home he shares with his mother after a standoff that lasted nearly four hours and left two more officers injured. Wearing a bulletproof vest and armed with an AK-47, a long rifle and a pistol, Poplawski fired about 100 rounds during the standoff, Harper said.  Watch officers respond at the scene » Poplawski was taken into custody after surrendering to law enforcement. He is expected to face charges of homicide, aggravated assault and other related offenses, Harper said. Officer Paul Sciullo III was the first to approach the home after responding to the scene around 7:05 a.m. He was shot in the head as he entered the doorway. When Officer Stephen Mayhle tried to help his fellow officer, he too was shot in the head, Harper said. Officer Eric Kelly, who rushed to the scene on his way home after finishing his shift, was fatally shot as he attempted to assist his fallen colleagues, Harper said. The shootings triggered a standoff between Poplawski, who was shooting from his bedroom window, and law enforcement agencies from several jurisdictions, Harper said. Poplawski opened fire at an Army SWAT vehicle that arrived around 8:30 a.m., preventing them and medics from reaching the wounded policemen. Officer Timothy McManaway also was shot in the hand, the chief said. Another officer, Brian Jones, broke his leg while trying to get over a fence while securing the rear of the house, he said. Some neighbors were evacuated during the standoff. Neighbors reported that the family had caused trouble before and Harper said police had responded to calls from the home two or three times.

Question: what Suspect was wearing bulletproof vest?

Question: what Third officer killed was on his way home after?

Question: What were they responding to?

Question: What was the suspect wearing?

Question: Who was killed on his way home?

Question: How many officers were killed?

Question: Where were the officers responding to a call?

Answer: Richard Poplawski

Answer: Eric Kelly,

Answer: a domestic dispute call,

Answer: a bulletproof vest

Answer: Eric Kelly,

Answer: Three

Answer: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania,

Summary:
NEW: Suspect was wearing bulletproof vest, armed with AK-47, police chief says .
NEW: Third officer killed was on his way home after finishing shift .
Officers were responding to domestic call in Stanton Heights area of Pittsburgh .
Two more officers were injured in the nearly four-hour standoff that ensued .


(CNN) -- Three U.S. researchers have won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for solving "a major problem in biology," the Nobel Committee announced Monday. Jack Szostak, from left, Carol Greider and Elizabeth Blackburn will share the $1.4 million prize. Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Carol W. Greider and Jack W. Szostak are credited with discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation -- a field that could shed light on human aging and diseases, including cancer. "The award of the Nobel Prize recognizes the discovery of a fundamental mechanism in the cell, a discovery that has stimulated the development of new therapeutic strategies," the committee said in a news release. The three will share the $1.4 million prize. It is the 100th year the prize will be awarded, and the first time that any Nobel in the sciences has gone to more than one woman. The work that won them the prize took place in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It centers on structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres and an enzyme that forms them, called telomerase. As cells divide, chromosomes need to be replicated perfectly. Work by the researchers determined that telomeres protect DNA from degradation in the process, and that telomerase maintains the telomeres. Though there had been some speculation that the three scientists were being considered for the Nobel, the committee keeps its work top secret -- and all three researchers said they were surprised. Szostak told CNN he got the news in "that classic early morning phone call from Stockholm." He described it as "surprising and exciting" -- perhaps particularly for him because he has not worked on the subject for the past 20 years. "I've been working on other things," he said. "It started off as a collaboration with me and Liz [Blackburn] -- Carol [Greider] was a student of hers." The work began as "a long-standing puzzle that we were interested in solving," he said. "It was only over later years that it emerged, through the work of many people, that this was probably important for aging and cancer." How it might help fight such diseases is not yet known, Szostak said. "It will take a while yet for that to be figured out." Blackburn and Greider did not immediately return calls from CNN. In a telephone conversation with the editor-in-chief of the Nobel Prize Web site nobelprize.org, Greider said she had been attracted to the field of research because "it seemed like the unanswered question." She also said telomere research has a higher proportion of women than other fields because in its early days, the lead researchers brought women into the field. She called it a situation in which "you have someone that trains a lot of women and then there's a slight gravitation of women to work in the labs with other women." She added, "I think actively promoting women in science is very important because the data has certainly shown that there has been an underrepresentation. And I think that the things that contribute to that are very many ... subtle, social kinds of things." Blackburn, in a separate conversation posted on the Web site, said the proportion of women in telomere research is "fairly close to the biological ratio of men and women." "It's all the other fields that are aberrant," she added, laughing. The field of study intrigued her because "it's so intricate and complicated, and you want to know how it works," she said. Blackburn was Greider's supervisor at the University of California, Berkeley. Now Blackburn is at the University of California, San Francisco. Greider is a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland. Szostak was previously at Harvard Medical School and is currently professor of genetics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Married with two children, he told CNN he has "no idea" what he'll do with his portion of the monetary prize -- about $467,000. CNN asked

Question: Winners studied structures at the end of chromosomes called what?

Question: What problem did they solve?

Question: How much money will the winners share?

Question: Who will share the $1.4 million prize?

Question: What does their research relate to?

Question: Who solved "a major problem in biology"?

Answer: telomeres

Answer: discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation

Answer: $1.4 million

Answer: Carol Greider

Answer: discovering how chromosomes are protected against degradation

Answer: Elizabeth Blackburn

Summary:
NEW: Nobel Committee says prizewinners solved "a major problem in biology"
Winners studied structures at the end of chromosomes called telomeres .
Their research relates to understanding aging, diseases including cancer .
Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider and Jack Szostak will share $1.4 million prize .


(CNN) -- Three attacks were made on Royal Dutch Shell oil facilities in Nigeria on Sunday, according to a company spokesman who said details were not immediately available. Investigating the attacks will be difficult because they happened in remote areas, Royal Dutch Shell says. The attacks were against pipelines in the eastern part of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, said the spokesman, Rainer Winzenried. "Shell is investigating the impact on facilities, the environment and the production capabilities," he said. The attacks happened in remote areas, making investigations difficult, he said, adding that the company would not send in investigators until it was certain the area was secure. It was not known whether there were any casualties, he said. The pipelines are part of a Shell joint venture that provides oil to several companies, Winzenried said. Shell runs the venture, and Nigeria is the operator. Winzenried refused to speculate on who was behind the attacks, but Nigeria's main militant group -- the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND -- said it had attacked an offshore facility earlier Sunday and that "the structure is ... engulfed in fire." Winzenried had no information about that claim. MEND, which demands a fairer distribution of Nigeria's oil wealth, claimed Friday that it destroyed a pipeline owned and operated by the Italian gas company Agip, but Agip has not confirmed that report. Earlier in the week, MEND claimed to have destroyed Royal Dutch Shell's main trunk line in Bayelsa state and a Chevron oil station in the delta region. Shell confirmed an attack on that pipeline and said it had shut it down to avoid an environmental impact. Chevron, which halted its onshore operations in the region last month, said it was investigating. Last month, the militant group declared an "all-out war" on the government after what it said was a deadly bombing raid on civilians. It is not the first declaration of war by MEND, which demands that more of Nigeria's oil wealth be invested in the region instead of enriching those whom the militants consider corrupt politicians. The militant group declared war against the government in September for what it said were unprovoked attacks. At that time, MEND destroyed several oil facilities, forcing Nigeria to cut its oil exports by as many as 1 million barrels of oil per day, or 40 percent.

Question: who attacked the pipelines?

Question: Who would run the investigation?

Question: where is the pipeline?

Question: Where were the Pipelines attacked?

Question: who claimed responsiblity?

Question: What group took responsibility for attacking an offshore facility?

Question: Who attacked the eastern part of Nigeria's Niger Delta?

Question: what did the company say

Question: What group said they attacked a facility?

Question: What happened to the pipelines?

Question: who claimed the attack

Question: What did MEND claim to attack?

Question: what did Royal Dutch Shell say

Answer: Winzenried refused to speculate on

Answer: Royal Dutch Shell

Answer: eastern part of the Niger Delta in Nigeria,

Answer: Niger Delta in Nigeria,

Answer: the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND

Answer: the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND

Answer: MEND

Answer: attacks were made on Royal Dutch Shell oil facilities in Nigeria on Sunday,

Answer: the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, or MEND

Answer: attacks

Answer: MEND

Answer: had attacked an offshore facility earlier Sunday and that "the structure is ... engulfed in fire."

Answer: Investigating the attacks will be difficult because they happened in remote areas,

Summary:
Royal Dutch Shell: Pipelines attacked in eastern part of Nigeria's Niger Delta .
Few details available; company says remote area will make investigation hard .
Company won't speculate on who was behind attacks .
Militant group MEND claimed it attacked an offshore facility earlier Sunday .


(CNN) -- Three crew members died in a fiery Navy helicopter crash near Corpus Christi, Texas, a military spokesman said, and a fourth is hospitalized in critical condition. The Navy MH-53 Sea Dragon helicopter crashed in a field about four miles south of Corpus Christi on Wednesday just after 8 p.m. It caught fire after impact, said Ed Mackley with the Naval Mine and Anti-Submarine Warfare Command. Copter wreckage came to rest near guide wires of a 1,000-foot TV tower for Public Broadcasting System affiliate KEDT, according to the Corpus Christi Caller-Times. Authorities refused to tell The Associate Press whether the Sea Dragon collided with the tower. A witness reported a huge fireball and booming noise shortly after the crash. Rescuers found bodies of three crew members about 2:30 a.m. on Thursday, Mackley said.  Watch smoke and flames after the crash » Witness J.D. Batten told the Caller-Times he was walking on his property about two miles from the crash site when he heard a helicopter overhead. "I saw a red-glowing fireball shoot hundreds of feet up into the air," he told the paper. "I heard a giant boom a second later. It was then dead silent, and I couldn't hear the helicopter anymore." A fourth crew member was in critical condition at Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas, Mackley said. "Our hearts and prayers go out to the families," Mackley said. Authorities did not immediately identify the victims. The aircraft was part of Helicopter Mine Countermeasures Squadron 15 out of Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, a military spokesman told the Caller-Times. The Caller-Times quoted a Navy spokesman who said the aircraft was on a training mission and the crash occurred during heavy fog. A military investigation will try to determine what caused the crash, Mackley said. First responders to the crash site were hindered by downed power lines, according to the Caller-Times report. The paper said firefighters and a busload of military personnel searched the muddy area surrounding the crash site for hours. E-mail to a friend

Question:
Was the fog really dense?
what happened to teh chopper
What height is the tower?
How many people were killed?

Answer: heavy

Answer: crash

Answer: 1,000-foot

Answer: Three

Summary:
NEW: Chopper reportedly went down near 1,000-foot TV  tower .
Crash took place during heavy fog, reports Caller-Times newspaper .
Fourth victim in critical condition at Texas hospital, military says .
Three killed when MH-53 Sea Dragon crashed in field near Corpus Christi .


(CNN) -- Three days after a consumers' group called for a meat boycott, the head of Argentina's beef industry said Thursday prices will fall by week's end.

Gustavo Valsangiacomo, president of the Argentina Beef Industry Union, declined to say the boycott was responsible for the price drop. But he acknowledged that demand for beef is falling, the official Telam news agency said.

"There are a sum of factors," Valsangiacomo told Telam. "I don't want to take importance away from the boycott, but it will be analyzed by the end of the week. Nonetheless, we undoubtedly believe that prices reached a point that the public cannot and does not want to accept."

On Monday, an Argentinean consumer group called for a one-week beef boycott in an attempt to lower prices in a nation that eats more beef than anywhere else in the world.

The price of beef has increased 40 percent to 50 percent since December, said the Association of Free Consumers, which called for the boycott.

The group cited success in a similar recent boycott of tomatoes, which also had risen in price. Within a few days of the tomato boycott, prices dropped, the consumer organization said.

Valsangiacomo said the beef industry had reached a particular point in which cattle growers have cheap feed but have tried to maximize their profits.

"There has to be an equilibrium between their costs and what consumers are paying," the industry chief said.

Argentina -- a nation of nearly 41 million residents and 51 million head of cattle in 2007, the latest year comparison figures are available -- has faced a crisis as cattle supplies have dipped to their lowest levels in 45 years, according to the Argentina Farm Federation.

The Association of Free Consumers cites three possible reasons for the decline in cattle stock: a significant increase in the number of slaughtered livestock; an acceleration in the cultivation of soy, with more than 10 million hectares (24.7 million acres) converted from livestock to soy production; and more Argentineans buying beef.

Drought also has decreased the size of available pasture land.

Argentineans eat more beef than any other nation in the world -- 68 kilograms (150 lbs) per person annually, the Farm Federation said. Despite the high consumption, that's a significant decrease from the 80 kilograms (176 lbs) per person per year in the 1970s, the farmers' group said.

Argentinean beef is considered among the best in the world, and the nation is the third-largest exporter in the world, behind Brazil and Australia. But the drastic decline in beef cattle has led some Argentineans to worry the nation eventually could have to import beef to keep up with the high demand.

Question: What percent has price of beef risen?

Question: What length of boycott is the consumer group calling for?

Question: What is the trend for the public demand for beef?

Question: The price of beef has risen how many percent since December?

Question: What did costumer group  do?

Question: What did the Argentina Beef Industry president decline to say?

Question: What won't Argentina Beef Industry Union president say?

Question: What did consumer group call for to try to lower prices?

Answer: 40

Answer: one-week

Answer: falling,

Answer: 40

Answer: called for a meat boycott,

Answer: the boycott was responsible for the price drop.

Answer: the boycott was responsible for the price drop.

Answer: meat boycott,

Summary:
Consumer group called for one-week beef boycott to try to lower prices .
Argentina Beef Industry Union president won't say if boycott responsible for likely price drop .
Price of beef has risen 40 percent to 50 percent since December, group says .
Industry chief tells news agency public demand for beef on decline .


(CNN) -- Three faculty members were killed and three other school employees were wounded Friday in a shooting at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, a school spokesman said.

A female shooting suspect was in custody and a second person was detained, "not arrested," spokesman Ray Garner told reporters.

Huntsville Police Chief Henry Reyes left open the possibility that more than one person had been detained. "We have a suspect and possible persons of interest," he said late Friday. "Until we go through everything, we're not going to say exactly how many or who we have."

He said police were questioning the suspect, whom he would not identify.

Of the wounded, two were faculty members and the third was a staff member, he said.

Garner said the incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. in Shelby Hall. Police arrived at 4:01 p.m.; residence halls were locked down at 4:10 p.m.; the building was secured by 5:45 p.m., he said.

The suspect was taken into custody outside the building, said Reyes. No weapon has been recovered, he said.

The 6-year-old, $60 million facility houses the chemistry department and is named for U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama and his wife, Annette Shelby.

Garner identified the dead as Gopi Podila, chairman of the biological sciences department; Maria Davis, associate professor of biology; and Adriel Johnson, associate professor of biology.

He identified the injured as Joseph Leahy, associate professor of biology, in critical condition; Luis Cruz-Vera, assistant professor of biology, in stable condition; and Stephanie Monticello, staff assistant, also in stable condition. The wounded were taken to Huntsville Hospital.

Classes and athletic events are to be canceled February 15-19, he said.

Asked why students had not been alerted for more than an hour after the shootings, Reyes said, "I can't comment on that part."

Question: What university did the three killed faculty members work at?

Question: What time did the shooting occur?

Question: What were they killed by?

Question: Who is the hall named after?

Question: Was more than one person detained?

Answer: of Alabama

Answer: shortly before 4 p.m.

Answer: shooting

Answer: U.S. Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama and his wife, Annette Shelby.

Answer: a second

Summary:
Three killed were faculty members at University of Alabama in Huntsville .
Police leave open the possibility that more than one person has been detained .
Shooting occurred about 4 p.m. in Shelby Hall, which is named for senator .


(CNN) -- Three former guerrilla leaders -- who helped command what one activist called "one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days" -- were sentenced Wednesday in Freetown, Sierra Leone, for crimes against humanity.

Amputee victims of Sierra Leone's civil war take part in football training at a beach in Freetown.

The U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone found the men guilty in February of crimes that included murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages stemming from a civil war that lasted from March 1991 to January 2002. They were arrested in March 2003, said Peter Anderson, spokesman for the U.N. court.

The rebels -- former leaders in the Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement -- were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet during the war, which stood out for its viciousness even on a a continent that has suffered many horrific conflicts.

Presiding Judge Pierre Boutet of Canada read the sentences.

Former Revolutionary United Front "interim leader" Issa Hassan Sesay was sentenced to 52 years in prison, former commander Morris Kallon to 40 years, and former chief of security Augustine Gbao to 25 years.

Sesay and Kallon had been found guilty on 16 counts, and Gbao was found guilty on 14.

The former rebels received credit for the six years each already has served in prison, Anderson told CNN.

He said they will be imprisoned in another country, maybe Rwanda, because the prisons in Sierra Leone do not meet the standards of the U.N. court.

Kallon was the only one of the three to express sorrow at his sentencing, Anderson said.

"He really had made a genuine expression of remorse," which is considered a stronger statement than regret, the court spokesman added.

The court noted several mitigating factors at the sentencing, but "in view of the gravity of the crimes, their impact was limited," a statement from the court said.

The court noted that the crimes "were committed upon a massive scale across several districts of Sierra Leone" and that "the impact of all these crimes upon the Sierra Leonean society has been enormous."

"The Chamber concluded that the inherent gravity of the criminal acts for which Sesay, Kallon and Gbao have been convicted is exceptionally high," the statement said.

Corinne Dufka, a senior researcher in Human Rights Watch's Africa division, had called the verdict "very significant."

"The RUF were renowned for leading one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days. Everyone knows about the signature atrocity of limb amputation, but there was also horrific sexual violence, abductions, use of child soldiers and forced marriages," she told CNN by phone from Senegal in West Africa.

Eight people have been convicted of war crimes connected with the conflict -- some on the rebels' side and some on the government's.

The U.N. Special Court's mandate is to try only "those who bear greatest responsibility for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone."

The trial of Sesay, Kallon and Gbao lasted nearly five years. The three had pleaded not guilty on all counts.

The Special Court cannot impose the death penalty.

The Revolutionary United Front seized most of Sierra Leone from the government and fought international and African peacekeepers. International forces retook the capital, Freetown, in 2000.

The trial of the three former leaders was the last of three to be held at the Special Court.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial separately at an international court in The Hague, Netherlands, for his role in the conflict. The prosecution rested in the Taylor case in January after a year of presenting its arguments.

Sierra Leone is known for its diamond wealth, but 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

The Special Court is an independent tribunal established jointly by the United Nations and the Sierra Leone government. It is mandated to bring to justice those most responsible for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone after November 30, 1996.

Question:
When were men found guilty
what was the convictions
what were the men convicted of?
who was sentenced?

Answer: February

Answer: of crimes that included murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages

Answer: crimes that included murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages

Answer: former guerrilla leaders

Summary:
Three rebels in Sierra Leone sentenced for crimes against humanity .
U.N. Special Court for Sierra Leone found the men guilty in February .
Men convicted of crimes such as murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced marriages .
Charges stem from civil war that lasted from March 1991 to January 2002 .


(CNN) -- Three former leaders of Sierra Leone's brutal Revolutionary United Front guerrilla movement were found guilty Wednesday of crimes against humanity including murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages, the Special Court for Sierra Leone announced.

The RUF rebels were notorious for brutality.

The charges stemmed from a civil war in the diamond-rich West African nation that lasted more than 10 years and stood out for its viciousness, even on a continent that has suffered many vicious conflicts.

It led to tens of thousands of deaths and more than 2 million people fleeing their homes in the country of 6 million.

The RUF rebels were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet during the war, which lasted from March 1991 until January 2002.

Former RUF "interim leader" Issa Hassan Sesay, former RUF commander Morris Kallon and former RUF chief of security Augustine Gbao each faced 18 counts of war crimes, crimes against humanity, attacking U.N. peacekeepers, and recruiting and using child soldiers.

Sesay and Kallon each were found guilty on 16 counts, while Gbao was found guilty on 14, the court announced.

They were charged with "extermination, murder, rape, sexual slavery, forced marriages and physical violence" as well as enslaving civilians, mutilating people, and pillaging.

They were convicted on all counts except two specifically related to the kidnapping of international peacekeepers in May 2000.

Gbao was also found not guilty of two other charges related to an attack on peacekeepers, although Sesay and Kallon were convicted of those crimes.

Human Rights Watch senior Africa researcher Corinne Dufka called the verdict "very significant."

"The RUF were renowned for leading one of the most brutal rebel movements in modern days. Everyone knows about the signature atrocity of limb amputation, but there was also horrific sexual violence, abductions, use of child soldiers, and forced marriages," she told CNN by phone from Senegal in West Africa.

She lived Sierra Leone from 1999 to 2004, documenting atrocities. "It was difficult to find someone who hadn't been a victim of or a witness to a war crime," she said.  Watch Jim Clancy's report on the battle for Sierra Leone »

Amnesty International also welcomed the convictions, but said much more needs to be done to bring hundreds of other perpetrators to justice.

The group called it a "positive, but still insufficient, step in the fight against impunity" in the country, and said "many others -- numbering perhaps in the several hundreds -- must be investigated in Sierra Leone."

Eight people have now been convicted of war crimes connected with the conflict -- some on the rebel's side and some on the government's.

The Special Court's mandate is to try only "those who bear greatest responsibility for atrocities committed in Sierra Leone."

Sesay, Kallon and Gbao had pleaded not guilty on all counts in a trial that lasted nearly five years.

They are due to be sentenced within a month. The Special Court cannot impose the death penalty.

The RUF seized most of Sierra Leone from the government and fought international and African peacekeepers. The capital, Freetown, was retaken by international forces in 2000.

The trial of the three former leaders was the last of three to be held at the Special Court, a unique joint project of Sierra Leone and the United Nations.

Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is on trial separately at an international court in The Hague for his role in the conflict. The prosecution rested in the Taylor case last month after a year of presenting its arguments.

The Leonardo DiCaprio movie "Blood Diamond" is set in Sierra Leone during the civil war. Despite the country's diamond wealth, 70 percent of the population lives below the poverty line.

In the days of the slave trade, the West African country was the departure point for thousands of captives bound for the Americas. Freetown was founded in 1787 as a home for repatriated former slaves.

Question:
What did the rebels do to civilians?
did the civil war last long
where was this event
what was the rebels reputation
How long did the civil war last?
what did human rights group do
Which group welcomes the convictions?

Answer: murder, rape, sexual slavery and forced marriages,

Answer: more than 10 years

Answer: Sierra Leone

Answer: notorious for brutality.

Answer: more than 10 years

Answer: welcomed the convictions, but said much more needs to be done to bring hundreds of other perpetrators to justice.

Answer: Amnesty International

Summary:
NEW: Human rights groups welcome convictions of three Sierra Leone rebel leaders .
Convictions are for war crimes, crimes against humanity, child soldier use .
Civil war last more than 10 years and left tens of thousands dead .
RUF rebels were known for hacking off civilians' hands and feet .


(CNN) -- Three gone (Gadhafi, Mubarak, Ben Ali), two holding on in the face of daily protests (al-Assad, Saleh), two more (Kings Abdullah of Jordan and Mohammed of Morocco) trying to stay ahead of the curve of protest: After 10 months of the Arab Spring, the region is still in the throes of a heady and unpredictable transformation.

Moammar Gadhafi's demise, after the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in Egypt and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia, means that three rulers in power collectively for 95 years are gone. Scholar and author Fouad Ajami, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, says that 2011 "is to the Arabs what 1989 was to the communist world. The Arabs are now coming into ownership of their own history and we have to celebrate."

Protesters in Yemen and Syria may be re-energized by the pictures from Sirte, Libya, showing the almost pathetic end of a ruler whose flowing robes and uniforms had long given him an aura of invincibility. Demonstrators in Syrian cities celebrated Gadhafi's death and warned President Bashar al-Assad that he would be next. As one Syrian activist told CNN: "The clear fate of all who kill his people is to end up under the feet of the nation."

Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri (no friend of the Syria regime) said: "Any Arab citizen, watching the course of events in Libya, cannot but think of the popular revolutionary movement that is taking place in Syria."

There has been one refrain common across the Arab world this year -- from the dusty streets of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, where it all began, to the barricades that litter Homs in Syria today: "The fear is gone, the people have put away their fear." Those words, spoken by Tunisian activist Sana Ben Achour in January, have echoed across the region ever since. It was quickly followed by a chant: "The people want the downfall of the regime."

Even so, it took U.N. resolutions and thousands of NATO sorties to degrade Gadhafi's forces. And that's unlikely elsewhere. The United States and Western Europe are applying economic sanctions against the Syrian regime but have persistently discounted military intervention. President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen seems impervious to outside pressure and even his own injuries as he maneuvers back into the game. And in a majority of Arab countries, the power of the state remains formidable if not overwhelming.

In 1989, the people of Eastern Europe shared a continent with developed democracies; they had a model to copy -- and considerable help in shaking off the legacy of communism.

The Arab states, which did not even draw their own borders, each have different dynamics. Explosive sectarian and regional divides have enabled authoritarian rule in Syria, Yemen and Libya. Like the Gulf states, Jordan and Morocco are monarchies and their kings at least have the legitimacy of succession. Egypt and Tunisia have by Arab standards a large and capable middle class; Yemen does not. The Gulf states are enriched by massive oil and gas reserves; countries such as Jordan have little or none. The attitude toward women's rights varies widely; Islamists are stronger in some countries than others.

Perhaps most importantly, security forces are in some places loyal to the flag, in others bound to the regime, or split down the middle. The military in Tunisia and Egypt would not defend leaders who became liabilities; the military in Syria has remained cohesive and loyal to al-Assad.

But one of the few characteristics Arab states have long shared is the "freedom deficit," the product of decades of authoritarian rule. A landmark report on Arab societies by the U.N. Development Program in 2002 concluded: "This freedom deficit undermines human development and is one of the most painful manifestations of lagging political development."

The situation changed little in the following decade, but other forces were at work. The pan-Arab satellite television networks -- so different from the sclerotic state broadcasters -- gave Arabs a new window on the world. The educated young began to harness the power of the

Question: The overthrow of how many leaders doesn't change the dilemmas that Arab world faces?

Question: How many leaders were overthrew?

Question: What power remains formidable in Arab countries?

Question: Scholar says 2011 "is to the Arabs what 1989 was to which other region?

Answer: Three

Answer: Three

Answer: of the state

Answer: communist world.

Summary:
Scholar says 2011 "is to the Arabs what 1989 was to the communist world"
U.N. resolutions, NATA sorties helped in Libya but are unlikely elsewhere .
The power of the state remains formidable in a majority of Arab countries .
The overthrow of three leaders doesn't change the dilemmas that Arab world faces .


(CNN) -- Three law enforcement officers patrolling a remote stretch of northern California woods shot dead a double-murder suspect whom authorities had been hunting for 36 days, a sheriff said.

Aaron Bassler was wearing black clothing and carrying a large backpack, a fanny-pack and assault rifle when three Sacramento sheriffs spotted him early Saturday, Mendocino County Sheriff Tom Allman said.

From about 40 yards away and at an elevation 25 feet higher, they fired about seven rounds into his upper torso.

Allman said Bassler didn't fire a shot, and there was no verbal exchange between the parties. The suspect raised his weapon -- which was loaded and not on safety -- from the ground toward law enforcement officers.

It is believed to be the same weapon used to kill one of his victims, officials said.

The suspect was considered "armed and dangerous," and was believed to have engaged in a gunfight with three other law enforcement officers from Alameda County two days earlier.

There was no "shoot-to-kill" order in effect, Allman said.

"I fully support the manner in which this happened," the sheriff said, responding to inquiries that the suspect was killed without any warning or having fired a shot. "There will be no more lives endangered by Aaron Bassler."

Authorities wanted Bassler for the killing of Jere Melo on August 27 just east of Fort Bragg on the northern California coast 10 miles north of Mendocino.

Melo, 69, was an Army veteran as well as a former mayor and then-councilman in Fort Bragg at the time of his death.

A witness saw a gunman open fire and later identified the suspect, according to Allman.

He has also been identified as the suspect in the August 11 slaying of Matthew Coleman in Westport, just north of Fort Bragg. Allman said Saturday that DNA evidence linked him to Coleman's death.

For over a month, more than 40 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies have teamed up to look for him.

In the process, he has been a suspect in several burglaries in which he kicked in locked doors and made off with food and guns, said Allman.

One such incident occurred between Thursday and Friday in a garage-shop about two miles from where Bassler was eventually found. A police bloodhound tracked his scent, helping steer authorities in the direction that they believed the suspect might be -- and leading to the operation Saturday.

The officers who gunned down Bassler were among about 15 three-person teams brought in from around the state for the search.

Bassler's family was "not happy" when a law enforcement official contacted them Saturday about the death because the press had already put out the news, according to the sheriff.

"I do have some feelings for the Bassler family, they suffered a loss today," Allman said. "(But) I assure you, that the other two losses that we felt in this county were something that law enforcement remembered every day."

A $30,000 reward for information leading to Bassler had been offered. There was no indication Saturday that anyone will receive it.

CNN's Greg Botelho contributed to this report.

Question: More than how many law enforcement agents have been involved in the hunt for him?

Question: who were patrolling remote forest area?

Question: He is shot dead by who?

Question: Who was hunting for him?

Question: Who shot Bassler?

Question: Who was wanted in two murders in August in Mendocino County?

Question: who was wanted?

Question: What is Aaron Bassler accused of?

Answer: 40

Answer: law enforcement officers

Answer: three Sacramento sheriffs

Answer: authorities

Answer: law enforcement officers

Answer: Aaron Bassler

Answer: Aaron Bassler

Answer: double-murder

Summary:
Aaron Bassler was wanted in two murders in August in Mendocino County .
More than 40 law enforcement agents have been involved in the hunt for him .
He is shot dead by a team of sheriff officers patrolling remote forest area .
The suspect was not warned and didn't fire, but was considered "dangerous"


(CNN) -- Three members of a U.S. Navy helicopter crew were killed after their helicopter went down in the waters off San Diego, California, a Navy spokeswoman said Wednesday. Rescuers are still searching for the two remaining crew members from the helicopter, which went down late Tuesday night, U.S. Navy spokeswoman Karin Burzynski said. No further details concerning the deaths were immediately available. Burzynski said the helicopter was operating from the USS Nimitz. The Navy received word that the helicopter went down around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, she said. It crashed about 20 miles off the Mexican coast, the Navy said. Coast Guard spokesman Henry Dunphy told CNN earlier that Coast Guard helicopters and boats, as well as vessels from other agencies, were helping in the search.

Question: Who did the Coast Guard search for?

Question: Where did the crash occur?

Question: How many people are missing after the crash?

Question: What are the Coast Guard using to search?

Question: Where did the copter crash?

Question: How many people are still missing?

Question: Who is using helicopters?

Question: What day did the crash occur?

Answer: the two remaining crew members

Answer: the waters off San Diego, California,

Answer: two

Answer: helicopters and boats, as well as vessels from other agencies,

Answer: It crashed about 20 miles off the Mexican coast,

Answer: two remaining crew members

Answer: U.S. Navy

Answer: 11:30 p.m. Tuesday,

Summary:
NEW: Rescuers still searching for two people missing from Tuesday night crash .
Coast Guard using helicopters and boats to search ocean for crew .
Copter was doing training off coast of Mexico, near San Diego, when it crashed .


(CNN) -- Three men were sentenced to prison for forcing an African-American man out of a South Carolina convenience store, threatening him with a chainsaw and stealing his car, an incident the Department of Justice said was fueled by hate.

Thomas Blue Sr., 49, owner of the convenience store, was sentenced Tuesday to 13 years in prison in the 2007 incident. A second man, Judson Hartley Talbert, was sentenced to nine years, the department said. Blue's son, Thomas Blue Jr., 29, was sentenced to three years.

The three pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to deprive and depriving Dahndra "Ervin" Moore of his right to engage in a federally protected activity -- entering the convenience store -- and also to conspiring to carjack and carjacking his car, authorities said. The elder Blue also pleaded guilty to depriving two other people, both white, of their right to engage in a federally protected activity and using a firearm in relation to a crime of violence against those two.

The defendants admitted that the elder Blue "forcibly escorted" Moore out of a Marlboro County, South Carolina, store known as the Stop and Shop after he entered to use the restroom, the statement said.

"Once outside, the elder Blue forced the victim to the ground and Blue Jr. threatened the victim with a chainsaw while a small crowd watched," according to the Department of Justice statement.

While the attack was occurring, Talbert stole Moore's car, authorities said. Later, the elder Blue used a pistol to threaten two white men who he thought were trying to help the victim, including one who showed up to retrieve Moore's car.

All three men waived their right to appeal, according to court documents.

The elder Blue's attorney, Jack Swirling, called the incident "most unfortunate" and "totally unacceptable." His client, he said, is very remorseful, adding that the incident would not have occurred but for Blue's heavy drinking that day.

Kirk Truslow, the younger Blue's attorney, said his client had apologized to Moore and his family and "wishes this never would have happened." The case "went a long way in making some changes in the area," he said.

"I think it really made an impact," Truslow said. "Everyone in this area took notice."

Talbert's attorney, Morgan Martin, called the incident "regrettable" and said his client is sorry it happened.

"This case is a reminder that violent acts fueled by bigotry and hate continue to happen all too frequently in our nation, even in 2010," said Thomas Perez, assistant attorney general in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division.

"This senseless, terrifying assault was quite simply the product of hate," said Kevin McDonald, acting U.S. attorney for the District of South Carolina. "I expect others tempted to act out in violent racism to take note of this prosecution and the sentences imposed."

Question:
Who was convicted ?
what do the defendants admit
Where had the victim stopped ?
who is convicted of the attack
Was a gun used ?
when was the attack

Answer: Thomas Blue Sr.,

Answer: conspiring to deprive and depriving Dahndra "Ervin" Moore of his right to engage in a federally protected activity

Answer: the Stop and Shop

Answer: Thomas Blue Jr.,

Answer: the elder Blue

Answer: 2007

Summary:
3 convicted for the 2007 attack at a store in South Carolina .
Victim had stopped at the store to use the restroom, according to court documents .
Defendants admitted taking him outside and threatening him with a chainsaw .
One man stole his car, pulled gun on men he thought were helping the victim .


(CNN) -- Three more members of a polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs are facing sexual assault charges, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said Tuesday. The latest charges come two months after Warren Jeffs and five followers were indicted in Texas. On Tuesday, a Texas grand jury indicted the three male members of Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compound outside Eldorado, Abbott said. Each faces one felony count of sexual assault of a child. Two of them also face felony bigamy charges. The identities of the men were not released because they had not been arrested as of Tuesday afternoon. In July, the Schleicher County grand jury indicted Jeffs and four of his Texas FLDS followers on child sexual assault charges. Jeffs was charged with sexually assaulting a child under 17. A fifth follower was charged with failure to report child abuse. The charges stem from a state and federal investigation into the sect's Yearning for Zion Ranch. In April, child welfare workers removed more than 400 children from the compound, citing allegations of physical and sexual abuse. After a court battle, the Texas Supreme Court ordered the children returned in June, saying that the state had no right to remove them and that there was no evidence to show the children faced imminent danger of abuse on the ranch. Jeffs, 52, is the leader and "prophet" of the estimated 10,000-member FLDS, an offshoot of the mainstream Mormon church. The FLDS openly practices polygamy at the YFZ Ranch and in two towns straddling the Utah-Arizona state line: Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. Jeffs, who is facing a sentence in Utah of up to life in prison and is awaiting trial in Arizona, could face another life sentence in Texas if convicted on the latest charge. In Utah, he was convicted on accomplice to rape charges for his role in the marriage of a sect member to a 14-year-old. He faces similar charges in Arizona. His attorney in Arizona, Michael Piccarreta, has questioned the motives of Texas authorities. He said in July that the state's investigation into Jeffs and his followers is an effort "to cover themselves up on the botched attack on the ranch in Texas."

Question:
what members of FLDS face?
when did this occur
who the grand jury indicted?
who is Warren Jeffs?

Answer: one felony count of sexual assault of a child.

Answer: Tuesday,

Answer: three male members of Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Answer: leader and "prophet" of the estimated 10,000-member FLDS,

Summary:
Three members of a polygamous sect led by Warren Jeffs indicted .
Texas attorney general: Members of FLDS facing sexual assault charges .
Each faces one felony count of sexual assault of a child .
In July, a grand jury indicted six other members of the sect .


(CNN) -- Three people connected to the U.S. consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, were killed in two drive-by shootings, a senior White House official told CNN Sunday.

Two of the victims were an American employee at the consulate and her U.S. citizen husband. Their 1-year-old child, who was in a vehicle with the couple at the time of the shooting, survived the incident, according to the El Paso County Sheriff's Office.

The American couple were found dead inside a white Toyota RAV4 with Texas license plates, according to the Chihuahua state attorney general's office.

The woman was shot in the neck and left arm, while the man had a bullet wound near his right eye, officials said.

"We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted," Juarez Mayor Jose Reyes Ferriz told CNN, saying a police officer witnessed a car shooting at the Americans' car. "We know they were chasing them. We know they wanted to kill them."

The Americans were identified as Arthur Redelfs, 34, and Lesley Enriquez by the El Paso County Sheriff's Office, where Redelfs worked as a detention officer.

Redelfs was a 10-year veteran of the department, according to Jesse Tovar, a spokesman for the sheriff's office.

"On behalf of the men and women of the Sheriff's Office, I would like to extend our deepest sympathy and condolences to the family during this difficult time," said Sheriff Richard Wiles. "Our thoughts and prayers are with them."

Authorities retrieved only one shell casing, from a 9 mm weapon.

About 10 minutes before authorities received the call, they were alerted to a body inside a 2003 Honda Pilot. Inside was the husband of the Mexican employee, identified as Jorge Alberto Salcido Ceniceros, 37. Reyes said the victim was a state police officer who was married to a Mexican employee at the U.S. consulate.

Two children, 4 and 7, were injured in that shooting and transported to the hospital, the attorney general's office said.

Police recovered two shells at that scene from an assault rifle, authorities said.

"The president is deeply saddened and outraged by the news of the brutal murders of three people associated with the United States Consulate General in Ciudad Juarez," National Security Council Spokesman Mike Hammer said in the statement Sunday. "He extends his condolences to the families and condemns these attacks on consular and diplomatic personnel serving at our foreign missions. In concert with Mexican authorities, we will work tirelessly to bring their killers to justice."

In response, the U.S. State Department authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.

"These appalling assaults on members of our own State Department family are, sadly, part of a growing tragedy besetting many communities in Mexico," Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said in a statement Sunday night. "They underscore the imperative of our continued commitment to work closely with the Government of (Mexican) President (Felipe) Calderón to cripple the influence of trafficking organizations at work in Mexico."

The families of employees at U.S. consulates in Tijuana, Nogales, Ciudad Juarez, Nuevo Laredo, Monterrey and Matamoros, are allowed to leave for a period of 30 days "in response to an increase in violence along the Mexican side of its border with the U.S.," State Department spokesman Fred Lash told CNN.

After 30 days, the authorization can be renewed, depending on a review, Lash said, adding that this was not a mandatory evacuation.

The announcement was part of a warning to American citizens regarding travel to Mexico.

The warning urges U.S. citizens to delay nonessential travel to parts of the states of Durango, Coahuila and Chihuahua, where Juarez is located, because of recent violent attacks. U.S. government employees are restricted from traveling to all or parts of these three states.

The attacks include the kidnapping and killing of two resident U.S. citizens in Chihuahua, the warning states.

"Some recent confrontations between Mexican authorities and drug cartel members have resembled small-unit combat, with cartels employing automatic weapons and grenades,"

Question: How many people were killed in the attack?

Question: what does juarez mayor say?

Question: What did the mayor of Juarez say?

Question: What did the mayor say?

Question: What did the State Department do?

Answer: Three

Answer: "We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted,"

Answer: "We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted,"

Answer: "We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted,"

Answer: authorized the temporary relocation of employees' families working in border-area consulates.

Summary:
1-year-old child of two of the victims survives the attack .
Juarez mayor: "We know that the U.S. citizens were targeted"
Drive-by shootings kill U.S. employee at consulate and 2 others in Ciudad Juarez .
State Department warns Americans of danger of traveling to three Mexican states .


(CNN) -- Three people were killed and 10 wounded when a hospital treating victims of Sri Lanka's civil war was shelled for a fourth time in two days, the International Committee of the Red Cross told CNN Tuesday. A civilian, injured during fighting in rebel territory, lies on a bed at a hospital in Vavuniya on January 16, 2009. Artillery shells slammed into the hospital in the northern district of Mullaittivu on Monday evening. Strikes on the hospital on Sunday -- including one that hit the pediatric ward -- left 11 people dead, including some children, according to an aid worker who spoke to witnesses. Government forces and Tamil rebels are locked in a battle for the remaining rebel strongholds in northern Sri Lanka, where the the country's ethnic Tamil minority has been fighting for an independent homeland since 1983. Humanitarian groups say as many as 250,000 unprotected civilians are trapped in the area. The civil war has left more than 70,000 people dead. International humanitarian aid agencies have asked for increased access to the region, calling conditions in northern Sri Lanka a "nightmarish situation." Sarah Crowe of UNICEF told CNN Monday that aid from the United Nations was getting into the war zone only every few days.  Watch video an aid  group says shows civilians suffering » "We need open access," she said. "These children and families need to be protected and they need to get out fast." Hundreds of civilians, including children, have been wounding in fighting since the end of last week. Government officials have accused aid organizations and foreign media of sensationalizing civilian casualties. "It looks as if it's convenient for certain agencies to exaggerate the numbers so that this can be converted to a humanitarian crisis in the public eye, " Secretary of Foreign Affairs Dr. Palitha Kohona told CNN. Over the weekend, Defense Secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa promised to "continue with the military offensive until we liberate the remaining area under LTTE (the rebel group's) control," according to Sri Lanka's state-run news agency. Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has promised to allow safe passage to trapped civilians and urged the Tamil Tigers, as the rebels are commonly known, to promise the same. A handful of U.N. staff are working round the clock to save a growing number of children caught in the crossfire, a U.N. spokesman said Saturday. Children as young as 4 months old were being treated in area hospitals for shrapnel injuries and other wounds of war, spokesman James Elder told CNN. "There is just intense fighting in a small area where children and other civilians are," Elder said. "The space [where conflict is taking place] is shrinking and the fighting is augmenting." Last Thursday, U.N. aid workers rescued 50 critically injured children and 105 adults, he said. "We are trying to get as many people out of there as we can," Elder said. CNN's Sara Sidner contributed to this report.

Question:
How many people were injured?
Who is fighting the battle?
What needs increased access?
Who wants access to Sri Lanka?
How many people were dead?
Who is locked in battle?
Who wants to call for increased access?
How many were killed?
What was shelled for the fourth time?

Answer: 10

Answer: Government forces and Tamil rebels

Answer: humanitarian aid agencies

Answer: humanitarian aid agencies

Answer: Three

Answer: Government forces and Tamil rebels

Answer: humanitarian aid agencies

Answer: Three

Answer: a hospital treating victims of Sri Lanka's civil

Summary:
3 dead as hospital treating Sri Lanka's civil war victims shelled for fourth time .
Government forces, Tamil rebels locked in battle for last rebel strongholds .
Humanitarian aid agencies call for increased access to northern Sri Lanka .
More than 200 civilians injured in past 3 days of fighting, says relief worker .


(CNN) -- Three police officers -- shot to death after responding to a domestic argument call -- will lie in repose at Pittsburgh's city-county building later this week, Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl told reporters Monday.

A statue at Pittsburgh's police memorial is decorated with a bouquet after the deaths of three officers on Saturday.

The public will be allowed to view the officers -- Stephen Mayhle, Paul Sciullo III and Eric Kelly -- from 4 p.m. Wednesday until 10 a.m. Thursday, Ravenstahl said.

City offices will close at 2 p.m. Wednesday and remain closed Thursday, he said, adding that city offices were already closing for the Good Friday holiday.

Following the viewing, the officers' bodies will be taken in a procession to an event center, where a public ceremony will be held at 1 p.m. Thursday, Ravenstahl said. Individual funerals will be held for the officers later.

A fund for the officers' families has been established at a local police credit union, Ravenstahl said.  Watch mayor tell of plans to honor slain officers »

The three officers were shot to death Saturday after arriving at a Pittsburgh home in response to a 911 call about an argument. Court papers said the argument was triggered by a urinating dog.

Richard Poplawski, 22, is in custody in connection with the shootings. He was hospitalized over the weekend after he was shot in the leg during a four-hour police standoff; his whereabouts were unclear Monday. Police said Saturday that he would be charged with three counts of homicide, aggravated assault and other charges.

Details of the incident were included in the police complaint seeking an arrest warrant for Poplawski. The complaint says Margaret Poplawski called 911 about 7 a.m. Saturday to report that her son was "giving her a hard time."

She told police she awoke to discover that "the dog had urinated on the floor," and awakened her son "to confront him about it."

The two had an argument, and Margaret Poplawski told her son she was calling police to remove him from her home, according to the complaint. When Mayhle and Sciullo arrived, she opened the door and let them in.

"Mrs. Poplawski reported that as the officers entered approximately 10 feet into the residence, she heard gunshots, turned and saw her son about six feet away with a long rifle in his hands, at which point she fled downstairs after asking him, 'What the hell have you done?'" the complaint said.

Margaret Poplawski reported she stayed in the basement during the standoff, and heard her son yell, "Yeah, I've been shot," and "I'm standing down, come in and help me," according to the complaint.

Kelly was a 14-year veteran of the department, Police Chief Nathan Harper has said, while the other two had worked there for two years each.  Watch officers respond at the scene »

The chief said Sciullo was the first to approach the home, and was shot in the head as he entered the doorway. When Mayhle tried to help his fellow officer, he also was shot in the head. Kelly arrived at the scene and was shot before he could aid the other two officers, Harper said.

Harper said the suspect fired from a bedroom window, shooting at an armored vehicle carrying a SWAT team -- preventing those officers and medics from reaching the wounded policemen.

Two other officers, Timothy McManaway and Brian Jones, were injured. McManaway was shot in the hand and Jones, who was trying to secure the rear of the house, broke his leg trying to get over a fence, Harper said.

Autopsies showed that Kelly died of gunshot wounds to the trunk and lower extremities, Sciullo died from gunshot wounds to the head and trunk, and Mayhle was shot in the head, the complaint said.

"We have never had to lose three officers in the line of duty on one call," Harper, the police chief, said. "They have paid the ultimate sacrifice."

Authorities believe Poplawski, wearing a bullet-proof vest, aimed more than 100

Question: what is the mayor doing?

Question: who describes plans for procession for fallen officers?

Question: which call they were responding?

Question: which day they were shot?

Answer: plans to honor slain officers

Answer: Pittsburgh Mayor Luke Ravenstahl

Answer: domestic argument

Answer: Saturday

Summary:
Eric Kelly, Stephen Mayhle and Paul Sciullo III were shot to death on Saturday .
They were responding to 911 call about an argument at a Pittsburgh home .
Suspect Richard Poplawski is in custody; his whereabouts unclear on Monday .
Mayor describes plans for procession for fallen officers, lying in repose .