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Lebanon: Rockets dismantled

BEIRUT — Lebanese army soldiers found and dismantled eight Katyusha rockets on Thursday afternoon that were pointed south toward Israel, Lebanese military officials said.

The rockets were found near the southern town of Naqura, in the border region where an expanded U.N. peacekeeping force has been monitoring an uneasy truce since the war in the summer of 2006 between Israel and Hezbollah, the Shiite militant group.

U.N. teams were sent Thursday to help the army dismantle the rockets, said a spokeswoman for the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon.

Australia: Arrest criticized

SYDNEY — A special investigating body has issued a report sharply critical of the government's arrest and detention of an Indian doctor who was accused of involvement with the failed terrorist bombers in London and Glasgow in 2007.

The eight-month inquiry concluded that the evidence against the doctor, Mohamed Haneef, "amounted to very little" and was "completely deficient."

Austria: Slide kills U.S. skier

VIENNA — Austrian police say an avalanche in western Austria has killed a New York City resident.

Police in Vorarlberg province say the 28-year-old man died Wednesday when he was buried while skiing off-piste in the Arlberg ski region.

They say the man's body was found buried under 3.9 feet of snow at an altitude of 7,218 feet. He was part of a guided group at the time of the accident.

Mexico: Law officers arrested

ACAPULCO — Soldiers arrested the deputy police chief of a Mexican resort town and six other officers who were allegedly protecting drug cartel members at a cock fight, the Defense Department said Thursday.

Fourteen suspected members of the Beltran Leyva drug gang were arrested at the cock fight in Zihuatanejo, a Pacific beach town popular with foreign tourists, the Defense Department said in a statement.

Peru: Tear gas kills 5 clubbers

LIMA — Peruvian police say five nightclubbers are dead after a tear gas grenade was detonated in the middle of a crowded disco.

Police officer Jaime Munoz says nine people including a minor have been arrested on suspicion of setting off the canister in the Boom nightclub.

He says the victims died of asphyxiation and seven others were hospitalized in the southern city of Juliaca.

Tibet: 59 people detained

BEIJING, China — The police have detained 59 people in Tibet on charges that they sought to foment unrest by spreading ethnic hatred and by downloading and selling banned songs from the Internet, Chinese state media reported Thursday.