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Norway’s King discharged

COP(N+$G(N - Norway’s .ing +arald has been discharged from the hospital after receiving a permanent pacemaker earlier this week and is doing well, the royal court said yesterday.

The king will be on sick leave until $pril to rest and recuperate, the court said in a statement. The

-year-old was hospitalised late last month for an infection while on holiday in 0alaysia, and received a temporary pacemaker at a hospital there on 0arch 2.

+e was later transferred to Norway for further treatment and received a pacemaker implant on Tuesday in a scheduled operation to help compensate for a low heart rate.

Charles de Gaulle’s son dies

P$5,S - The eldest child of )rench World War ,, 5esistance leader and first postwar President Charles de Gaulle, has died aged 02, the family said on Wednesday. Philippe de Gaulle, who was a significant military figure in his own right, heeded his father’s call to Moin )ree )rench forces in the fight against Nazism in World War ,,. +e later had a successful naval career, rising to the rank of admiral, and also became a senator.

Despite a striking physical resemblance, he was a more low-key figure than his father but devoted himself to preserving the memory of Charles de Gaulle, notably through numerous books including the successful work ‘De Gaulle, my father’.

Israeli fire kills 6 Gazans

C$,5O - ,sraeli fire killed si[ Palestinians and wounded dozens of others as crowds of residents awaited aid trucks in Gaza City, Gaza +ealth 0inistry officials said yesterday.

Palestinians were rushing to get aid supplies at the .uwait roundabout in northern Gaza City late on Wednesday evening when ,sraeli forces opened fire, residents and health officials said. The ,sraeli military did not immediately respond to a reTuest for comment on the incident.

The conflict in Gaza has displaced most of the enclave’s 2. million population and there have been chaotic scenes and deadly incidents at aid distributions as desperately hungry people scramble for food.

9$T,C$N C,TY - Pope )rancis has no intention of resigning as he feels that his health is good enough to allow him to carry on, he says in a new book whose e[cerpts were published by ,taly’s Corriere della Sera newspaper yesterday.

³This is a distant hypothesis, because , don’t have reasons serious enough to make me think about giving up,” )rancis was Tuoted as saying in ³/ife 0y Story Through +istory,” a book due out in ,talian and (nglish on 0arch .