Nicaragua: Damage

MANAGUA — Hurricane Ida swept onto Nicaragua's Atlantic coast Thursday, destroying homes, damaging schools and downing bridges before losing steam and becoming a tropical depression as it moved inland. Ida's winds swirled at 75 mph hen the storm struck land around sunrise in Tasbapauni, about 60 miles northeast of Bluefields, said meteorologist Dennis Feltgen of the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami. The storm is expected to regain strength when it emerges over the Caribbean Sea on Saturday, the center said.

Mexico: Baby back

MEXICO CITY — A 1-year-old girl is back with her mother a year after the Mexico City doctors who delivered her allegedly sold her to another woman.

Authorities handed the baby to Vanessa Castillo on Thursday after tests proved she was the mother. The case led to the arrest Wednesday of three doctors, a nurse and a receptionist at a hospital in a poor neighborhood. According to Castillo, doctors refused to let her see the baby after the October 2008 birth, then first told her the infant was taken to another hospital and later that she had died and been cremated.

Peru: Rebel attack

LIMA — Peru's defense minister says Shining Path rebels attacked a military outpost in the country's coca-producing highlands, killing one soldier and wounding three. The post is in Vizcatan, in southern Ayacucho province, long a jungle stronghold for a 350-strong rebel faction. Peru's military dislodged the rebels in an offensive last year, but have since lost 41 soldiers and six police officers in the region. The rebel death toll is unknown.

U.N.: Gaza vote

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. General Assembly urged Israel and the Palestinians Thursday to investigate alleged war crimes during last winter's conflict in Gaza and raised the possibility of Security Council action if they don't. The 192-member world body approved an Arab-drafted resolution by a vote of 114-18, with 44 abstentions and 16 countries not voting. Supporters insisted there must be accountability — especially from Israel — during the conflict in which 13 Israelis and almost 1,400 Palestinians were killed. Israel rejected the resolution as "deeply flawed, one-sided and prejudiced" while the United States called it "unbalanced and biased."

Mexico: 10 arrested

GARCIA — Authorities have arrested 10 people — including four police officers — in the assassination of an army general who had been appointed police chief of a northern Mexican town over the weekend. Nuevo Leon state Attorney General Alejandro Garza y Garza says the killing of Brig. Gen. Juan Arturo Esparza had its origins in an illegal quarrying company. He said Thursday that one person was facing investigation for operating the company and had enlisted the help of organized crime members to intimidate officials in the town of Garcia outside the northern industrial city of Monterrey.

Europe: EU tensions

PARIS — In an unusual spat that may foretell choppy relations across the English Channel, a French government minister attacked Britain's opposition Conservatives months before an election, calling their policy on Europe "pathetic" and reflecting a "bizarre sense of autism." Pierre Lellouche, the minister for European affairs, was speaking to The Guardian in Britain after the Conservative leader, David Cameron, promised on Wednesday to limit British integration in some areas of European Union policy if he came to power after elections that must be held by June. Cameron announced that he would not hold a referendum on the Lisbon Treaty if he became prime minister.