News In Brief

Former CIA officer sentenced to 19 years for conspiring
to spy for China
AP, Virginia
A former CIA case officer was sentenced by a federal judge in Virginia on Friday to serve 19 years in prison, after he pleaded guilty in May to conspiring to become a spy for China, federal prosecutors announced.
Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 55, left the CIA in 2007 and moved to Hong Kong. A few years later, in 2010, he was approached by two Chinese intelligence officers who offered to pay him $100,000 and to take care of him “for life” for information he had acquired as a CIA officer.

Two protesters shot dead in South Iraq
AFP, Nasiriyah
Two protesters were shot dead overnight in the southern Iraqi city of Nasiriyah, a medical source told AFP Sunday, as anti-government sit-ins shut down schools and bridges in the city.
At least 47 other people were wounded as protesters blocked roads and many public offices by burning tyres. Iraq’s mostly agricultural south has been swept up in the grassroots movement demanding a total overhaul of a government system seen widely as corrupt and inefficient.

149 migrants rescued in shipwreck off Italian coast
Xinhua, Rome
A total of 149 migrants have been rescued and some 20 are missing after a boat capsized late Saturday in stormy seas near the Italian island of Lampedusa, authorities and local media said Sunday.
The rescued migrants included 133 men, 13 women and three children, and the search is still going on, the Italian Coast Guard said in a statement on Twitter.

3 killed in Florida train-vehicle
collision
Xinhua, Washington
Three people were killed in a vehicle on Saturday afternoon after it collided with an Amtrak passenger train in Jupiter, southeast U.S. state of Florida, local media reported. There were no injuries on the train, which was carrying some 200 passengers and crew members and was traveling from Miami to New York, according to Amtrak spokeswoman Christina Leeds. The incident occurred north of West Palm Beach at around 2 p.m. local time (1900 GMT), authorities said.