WASHINGTON

Three charged for drug lab at Georgetown dormitory

Police arrested three men suspected of creating a drug lab in a freshmen dormitory at Georgetown University in Washington.

D.C. Police spokesman Officer Hugh Carew said investigators found a DMT lab where chemicals could create a hallucinogenic drug. DMT stands for dimethyltryptamine.

Emergency crews responded about 6:15 a.m. Saturday after a strange odor was reported. About 400 students were evacuated from Harbin Hall.

Seven people were exposed to noxious chemicals, including three students, but Georgetown spokeswoman Julie Green Bataille said no one was injured.

Carew said two of the suspects are students and one was a visitor. Local and federal agents are investigating.

COLUMBUS, Ohio

Pregnant teen gets married without parental consent

An Ohio judge allowed a pregnant 17-year-old to get married without her parents’ consent after the bride-to-be said she could be forced to have an abortion if she stayed at home.

The Columbus Dispatch reported that the couple, who each turn 18 in a few months, got married Tuesday after a hearing.

Ohio law requires parents to sign off on the marriage of anyone younger than 18, but judges can waive the requirement. The bride’s mother said she’s outraged the judge did so without hearing from her or her husband. She also denied pushing her daughter toward abortion.

The groom’s father told The Dispatch that his daughter-in-law felt that she was in an unsafe environment.

KABUL, Afghanistan

Suicide bomber, 3 militants killed in attack on U.N. base

A suicide car bomber and three armed militants wearing explosives vests and dressed as women attacked a United Nations compound Saturday in western Afghanistan, but Afghan security forces killed the attackers and no U.N. employees were harmed, officials said.

The attack began when four militants drove up to the U.N. compound in a car laden with explosives and fired a rocket toward the entrance, said Dilawar Shah Dilawar, deputy police chief of Herat province.

Three of the militants got out of the car and the fourth blew up the vehicle, killing himself. The explosion destroyed a gate, allowing the three to get inside.

“The three attackers were wearing police uniforms covered with burqas,” Dilawar said, referring to the long, flowing garment that many Afghan women wear in public. “All of them had suicide vests and AK-47s.”

Militants sometimes wear burqas or police uniforms as a disguise. The Interior Ministry denied the attackers were wearing police uniforms.

The three attackers were killed by Afghan security forces.

NAIROBI, Kenya

Seven fans die in stampede near entrance to stadium

Seven fans died in a stampede Saturday while trying to enter a stadium where a soccer game between two of Kenya’s most popular teams was being played, the Kenya Red Cross said.

Six people died when they were run over by the crowd outside Nyayo National Stadium in Nairobi, and one died after being taken to Kenyatta National Hospital, said Red Cross spokesman Titus Mungo’u. He said at least four people were injured, but that number could be higher because several ambulance services were called to the scene.

Jack Oguda, the CEO of the Kenya Premier League, said he did not know why fans couldn’t get into the stadium properly because it wasn’t full.

“A gate was broken into by fans forcing their way into the stadium,” Oguda said. “Access was limited and they got agitated, and that’s why they forced their way in. We’ll start an inquiry into the matter to establish why fans could not access the stadium.”

TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras

Tropical Storm Richard hits Caribbean coast of Honduras

Tropical Storm Richard gained strength Saturday, lashing the Caribbean coast of Honduras with strong winds and heavy rain that threatened potentially deadly flash floods and landslides.

The storm was expected to pass “near or over” Honduras’ coast late Saturday, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami, Fla. Officials declared a three-day state of alert in seven provinces in northern and eastern Honduras.

Richard is also likely to pass near the Honduran island of Roatan, which is popular with tourists and divers, before making landfall in Belize as a hurricane with winds of up to 80 mph late today.

Hurricane warnings were issued for all of those areas, and warnings were in place for Mexico’s southern Caribbean coast.

PARIS

Baby dies, others injured after falling from building

A 4-month-old baby died after he and 10 other people fell from the third-story window of a suburban Paris apartment building Saturday, an official said.

The other victims — adults and several children — were hospitalized with multiple traumas, the official said.

Circumstances surrounding the early-morning incident were unclear and it wasn’t known if the victims jumped on purpose or were forced to, the official said. There was no emergency, such as a fire, in the building at the time.

An initial investigation suggested they jumped after one of the women involved became hysterical and started shouting she’d seen the devil, the official said. However, French television reports suggested the tragedy occurred when one of the men living in the apartment entered a room where the others were watching TV after taking off all his clothes.

Two men — a 30-year-old and a man who jumped out of the window holding a 2-year-old — have been taken into police custody, the official said on condition of anonymity in keeping with her job’s regulations.