A white supremacist was deported from Canada yesterday and immediately taken into custody by authorities in his native Germany, where he faces charges of denying the Holocaust and inciting hatred via the Internet, immigration officials said.

Ernst Zundel, 65, author of "The Hitler We Loved and Why," was turned over to German authorities, said Helen Leslie, a spokeswoman for the Canada Border Services Agency in Ottawa. "We are committed to removing people who are found to be a security threat as soon as practical," she said.

German authorities had said he would be arrested for decades of anti-Semitic activities, including repeated denials of the Holocaust, which is a crime in Germany.

West Palm Beach, Fla.

Rights suit against 2 Salvadorans voided

A federal appeals court reversed a $54.6 million verdict against two retired Salvadoran generals accused of torture during the civil war in their home country two decades ago.

The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta ruled Monday that the statute of limitations had expired before the generals were sued by three torture victims — a church worker, doctor and professor who fled to the United States after being brutalized by Salvadoran soldiers.

In 2002, a federal jury found Gens. Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova and José Guillermo Garcia ignored massacres and other acts of brutality against civilians during the war. The two now live in Florida.

Tehran, Iran

Man found in rubble a week after quake

A 40-year-old man was rescued from the rubble of his home yesterday, one week after a powerful earthquake struck southeastern Iran and killed more than 600 people, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Ahmad Habibzadeh was discovered while disaster workers were removing the rubble of his destroyed home.

Manchester, England

Smoke halts flight; hundreds evacuated

More than 300 passengers and crew were evacuated from a Pakistani flight after smoke was seen in the undercarriage shortly after the plane landed in northern England, British police said yesterday.

Pakistan International Airlines said Flight 789 was making a scheduled refueling stop in Manchester en route from Karachi and Lahore to Toronto.

The chief of the airline's engineering department attributed the incident to a greasing problem in Boeing 777 wheels.

Naivasha, Kenya

Night-roaming hippo kills Aussie tourist

A hippopotamus flipped and trampled an Australian tourist to death at a popular resort in central Kenya, police said yesterday.

Vicky Elizabeth Bartlett, 50, was with a group of 12 tourists at Lake Naivasha on Monday night when the hippo attacked, said Simon Kiragu, the regional police chief.

Also

U.S. diplomat attacked: Robert Simmons, an official at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Uzbekistan, said yesterday he was beaten by skinheads in the Ukrainian capital Kiev because he is black.

Red Brigades members convicted: Two women were convicted yesterday in the 1999 Red Brigades terrorist slaying of Massimo D'Antona, a key government adviser on proposed changes aimed at tightening Italy's generally liberal labor laws, who was gunned down while walking on a Rome street.