Nation/World Briefly: Aloha Airlines passenger service halts after today

HONOLULU — Aloha Airlines said Sunday it will cease all passenger service after today.

Aloha, which filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on March 21, says it will stop taking reservations for flights after today.

Aloha says tickets for flights after today will not be honored. It’s working to have United Airlines accommodate passengers with tickets for Aloha’s mainland-to-Hawaii flights. It hopes to seat those with interisland tickets on Hawaiian Airlines.

Aloha has suffered since Phoenix-based Mesa Air Group Inc. launched a new interisland carrier called go! airlines in 2006, triggering a local airfare war.

Maryland: Father kills his children in hotel

A Silver Spring man killed his three children — ages 2 to 6 — at a downtown Baltimore hotel room, then called the front desk to report their deaths Sunday afternoon, authorities said. Police officers who responded to the 10th-floor room at the Baltimore Marriott Inner Harbor at Camden Yards found the three children’s bodies and Mark Castillo, 41, with minor cuts that appeared to have been self-inflicted, a police spokesman said. He did not know how the children were killed.

N.Y.: Pastor allegedly stole money to gamble

A Roman Catholic Church official says the long-serving pastor of a suburban parish is under investigation for allegedly using church money to feed a gambling habit. The chancellor of the Archdiocese of New York says the Rev. Patrick Dunne of Our Lady of Sorrows Church in White Plains took a significant amount of church money and has been permanently removed from the parish.

Texas: Obama leads caucus tally

The contest between Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton for Texas delegates appeared to be tightening, as counting from Saturday’s caucuses dragged on into Sunday. Obama led Clinton 60 percent to 40 percent in results that had been reported through Sunday night, but nearly half of the delegates had yet to be counted. Clinton narrowly won the popular vote in primary balloting March 4.

D.C.: Bush pushes NATO expansion

President Bush has told NATO members he wants to expand the alliance to include three Balkan countries — Albania, Croatia and Macedonia — and put Ukraine and Georgia on track for membership. European leaders know a new U.S. president could shift course on NATO. For that reason, they may seek to put aside some decisions, including commitments to Ukraine and Georgia, until after Bush leaves office in January. NATO’s summit is slated for Tuesday through Thursday in Bucharest, Romania.

Nepal: Tibetan protesters arrested

A group of 200 Tibetan exiles and monks tried to storm the Chinese Embassy visa office in Katmandu on Sunday in protest of China’s recent crackdown on demonstrations in Tibet but police beat them back with bamboo batons. At least 130 protesters were arrested, and some of the demonstrators and police officers were injured in the scuffle. Police said those arrested are being held in several detention centers and will likely be freed without facing any charges.

Switzerland: Iran contract controversy

The U.S. has demanded to see a Swiss contract for natural gas supplies from Iran to see whether it violates an American sanctions law against Tehran, the U.S. Embassy in Switzerland said Sunday. A posting on the U.S. Embassy Web site raises the question of whether neutral Switzerland’s position as representative of American interests in Iran and Cuba could be affected.

Vatican: Islam is world’s largest religion

Islam has surpassed Roman Catholicism as the world’s largest religion, the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano said Sunday. It said that Catholics accounted for 17.4 percent of the world population while Muslims were at 19.2 percent. When considering all Christians and not just Catholics, Christians make up 33 percent of the world population, it said.

Peru: Graffiti scrawled on ancient site

Visitors are increasingly vandalizing the ruins of Peru’s famed Sacsayhuaman fortress, the archaeological site on a hill above the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco, leaving behind what authorities say is an unusual accumulation of graffiti from the likes of soccer fans and lovers. Park director Washington Camacho promised an investigation.

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