Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Hotspots: breaking news around the world

VATICAN TO BOYCOTT HOLOCAUST SERVICE

JERUSALEM -- The Vatican and Israel's Yad Vashem Holocaustmemorial got into a spat Thursday over the wartime conduct of PopePius XII. The Vatican's ambassador to Israel said he would notattend Yad Vashem's service for Holocaust victims next week becauseof an allegation Pius failed to protest Jews' murders.

THEFT SUSPECT FLUSHED

MOUNDSVILLE, W.Va. -- Police looking for a purse snatcher wereable to find the suspect in the portable toilet where he was hiding."A Port-A-Potty is not a good place to hide," police Chief JamesKudlak said.

3,000 CENTRIFUGES FOR IRAN? NO, JUST HUNDREDS

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia -- The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdogsaid Iran is operating only several hundred centrifuges at itsuranium enrichment plant, despite its claims to have activated3,000. Mohamed ElBaradei discounted Tehran's claims of a majoradvance in uranium enrichment.

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