Boston

Judge lets case proceed for Guantanamo translator

A federal judge found probable cause that a translator at the prison for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay lied to investigators after he was found carrying classified documents.

The ruling by U.S. Magistrate Judge Charles Swartwood allows the case against Ahmed Fathy Mehalba to move forward to a grand jury for possible indictment.

Mehalba, 31, was arrested last month as he arrived at Logan International Airport after visiting his native Egypt.

The judge found late Thursday that Mehalba knowingly made a false statement to U.S. Customs officials and FBI agents when they asked him if he had any classified information on compact discs in his luggage. He denied it repeatedly and was charged with making a false statement.

New York

N.Y. Post prints editorial that says Yankees lost

The curse of the Bambino struck the New York Post, too.

On the morning after the New York Yankees vanquished the Boston Red Sox to win the American League pennant, some editions of the Post carried an editorial bemoaning a loss for the Bronx Bombers.

“The Yankees couldn’t get the job done,” read the editorial. “The hitting fell short and the bullpen simply didn’t deliver. It’s a crying shame that Roger Clemens’ career had to end on a losing note.”

Post Editor in Chief Col Allan blamed the foul-up on a simple production error.

“We had prepared two editorials, one in the event of the Yankees winning, one with the Yankees losing,” he said. “When we transmitted the pages to our printing facility, the wrong button was struck and the wrong editorial sent.”

The mistake was caught and corrected in later editions.

South Korea

Koreas end talks; nuclear weapons issue left unsettled

North and South Korea ended talks in Pyongyang on Friday without an agreement on the standoff over the North’s nuclear weapons development.

The Cabinet-level talks concluded one day after North Korea hinted that it might test an atomic bomb to prove itself a nuclear power.

The negotiators from the divided Koreas released a statement that included no mention of the nuclear dispute.

“We will continue to press North Korea to change its attitude through various inter-Korean dialogue channels,” a South Korean negotiator said on condition of anonymity.