● LONDON. British police arrest suspect in letter bomb attacks. Police have arrested a suspect over a series of letter bomb attacks in Britain, Sky News reported yesterday. The suspect was arrested in Cambridge, BBC television said. A police spokesman could not immediately be reached for comment.

● PARIS. Police evacuated Canadian embassy. French police in chemical protective gear evacuated the Canadian embassy in Paris yesterday after a member of staff was taken ill after opening a suspect letter, a police spokesman said. ?A suspect letter was received at the Canadian embassy by an employee. After opening it, the victim fell ill, so we launched the NRBC plan,? the spokesman said, referring to the deployment of police in suits designed to protect them from nuclear, radiological, bacteriological and chemical hazards.

● TEHRAN. Iran hangs man for role in Guards bus bombing. Iran yesterday hanged a man convicted of involvement in a bomb attack on a Revolutionary Guards bus last week that killed 11 people in the southeast of the country, an official and state media said. Nasrollah Shanbehzahi, who had confessed on television to taking part in Wednesday?s bombing in the city of Zahedan, was executed in public to shouts of ?Death to America?, ?Death to Israel? and ?Death to rebels,? IRNA news agency reported.

● ST PETERSBURG. Blast in Russian McDonald?s, at least 6 injured. An explosion caused by a suspected bomb in a Mc-Donald?s restaurant in Russia?s second city of St. Petersburg on Sunday slightly injured at least six people, officials said.