World datelines

Bangladesh

NARAYANGANJ — A fire raced through a garment factory in Bangladesh, killing 22 people who were trapped because most of the exits were locked, officials said Friday.

Cambodia

PHNOM PENH — Cambodia renewed its call Friday for the United Nations to find money for a genocide tribunal as the country marked the 26th anniversary of the end of the Khmer Rouge's brutal rule.

China

BEIJING — China is planning to make selective abortions of female fetuses illegal as a way to close the widening gap between the number of boys and girls in the country, the official Xinhua News Agency said. "The government takes it as an urgent task to correct the gender imbalance of newborns," Zhang Weiqing, minister of National Population and Family Planning Commission, was quoted as saying Thursday by Xinhua.

BEIJING — A Chinese man was sentenced to seven years in jail for making a baby formula so low in nutritional value it killed one baby and permanently injured two others, the government said Friday.

Congo

KINSHASA — Renegade army soldiers in eastern Congo massacred at least 30 civilians, including women and children, to avenge the deaths of three of their troops, the United Nations said Friday.

India

SRINAGAR — Paramilitary soldiers surrounded and stormed a government building that militants had set on fire in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Friday, rescuing almost all the 70 workers trapped inside. A soldier, a civilian and two militants were killed, police said.

Israel

JERUSALEM — An Israeli television station broadcast a video of Israel's top secret nuclear facility in the southern town of Dimona on Friday, the first detailed video of the site ever shown to the public. The 14-minute video depicted a pastoral setting of well-manicured lawns and palm trees, swaying gently in a light desert breeze. The reactor dome loomed in the background, flanked by a three-story building.

Italy

BOLOGNINA DI CREVALCORE — A passenger train and a freight train collided head-on in heavy fog in northern Italy on Friday, killing at least 13 people, injuring dozens and crushing several cars into a wreck of buckled metal.