Turkey

Police capture suspect in family’s deaths

Police in southern Turkey captured a man suspected of killing four members of his family in Germany, authorities said.

Ali Gobelek fled Germany after the killings in the city of Augsburg of his wife, his stepdaughter, mother-in-law and brother-in-law. A Czech citizen who was visiting the family also was slain. The family members were buried in Adana in southern Turkey earlier this week.

Cornered on a street in Adana, Gobelek began shooting at police and threatened to kill himself, an officer said.

Police overpowered him, the officer said. Gobelek was injured in the leg in the shootout, he said.

“I am innocent, I didn’t do it,” the Anatolia news agency quoted him as shouting during the exchange of fire.

Iran

U.N. officials return for inspections

U.N. nuclear agency inspectors returned Saturday to Iran for the first time since Tehran reversed a decision to bar them because of allegations the country was hiding some banned activity.

The International Atomic Energy Agency inspectors will inspect two nuclear facilities and quiz top Iranian officials on the country’s atomic program. They are trying to verify Iran’s claims that its nuclear activity is for peaceful purposes only.

IAEA spokeswoman Melissa Fleming told The Associated Press in Vienna that the inspectors already had begun their work.

Two weeks ago, Iran had barred inspectors after the IAEA issued a report rebuking the country for failing to disclose certain aspects of its nuclear development, as it is obliged to do as a signatory to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty.

West Bank

Gunfire kills 7-year-old

A 7-year-old Palestinian boy was killed Saturday by what the Israeli military said was haphazard Palestinian gunfire toward an army jeep in a West Bank refugee camp.

The boy, Khaled Walweel, had been standing at the window of his home and just turned his back when he was shot and killed, his family said.

The latest violence comes amid deepening tensions in the aftermath of Israel’s assassination Monday of Hamas leader Sheik Ahmed Yassin.

Members of Yassin’s radical Islamic group are promising revenge, and Israel’s military says it will continue to hit militant leaders.

Next week, a trio of U.S. emissaries is expected to make its third trip to the region to talk with Israeli and Palestinian officials on Israel’s proposed plan to pull soldiers and Jewish settlers out of the Gaza Strip.

Hong Kong

Earthquake hits Tibet; no injuries reported

A strong earthquake struck the Chinese region of Tibet early today, the Hong Kong Observatory said.

The observatory said the 5.8-magnitude quake struck 315 miles northwest of the Tibetan city of Lhasa at 2:52 a.m. Hong Kong time.

There was no immediate information about possible injuries or damage.

A magnitude 5 quake is capable of damaging buildings.