Briefly World

US F-16 fighters escort two flights after alerts

NEW YORK: US Air Force fighters were scrambled and escorted two civilian flights one to New York and other bound for Detroit after passengers spent “an extra-ordinary time in the bathroom”,mirroring the heightened precautions in force following a terror alert late Sunday. Two F-16 fighters escorted the flights until they landed safely at New York’s Kennedy Airport and Detroit’s Metropolitan Airport after the crew of the two flights sounded an alarm,reporting suspicious activity on board,CNN reported.

British PM seeks to mend ties with Kremlin

MOSCOW: British PM David Cameron’s attempt to improve ties with Russia stumbled Monday when President Dmitry Medvedev refused to extradite a man wanted for the murder of a Kremlin critic in London five years ago. Cameron pitched thriving business ties as a way to improve relations while in Moscow .

Russia ice hockey crash survivor dies of burns

MOSCOW: The sole member of the Yaroslavl Lokomotiv ice hockey team to survive last week’s air crash in western Russia died of his injuries on Monday,the medical centre that treated him said. Alexander Galimov was found alive after the Yak-42 jet crash last Wednesday killed 43 people. However,he received burns to 80 per cent of his body and succumbed to his injuries Monday.

Police question DSK in French assault case

PARIS: Former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn was questioned by French police Monday over a complaint of attempted rape,filed after his May arrest in New York in a separate sex assault case that was later dropped. Tristane Banon,a journalist,says Strauss-Kahn assaulted her in 2003 in a Paris apartment where he had invited her to interview him. Strauss-Kahn was reportedly questioned for three hours