Cairo  - Trailer drivers in Egypt struck for a fourth straight day on Monday to protest a draft law that would ban the use of large trailers for safety reasons.

Violence escalated in al-Gharbiya governorate as the strike continued. Angry drivers threw heavy rocks at trailer drivers who refused to strike. At the same time, police detained 11 drivers for investigation.

On Sunday, 18 people were injured, including three policemen.

Santiago  - The pilot of a helicopter that crashed in southern Chile, killing 12 firefighters combatting a forest fire, had flown the presidential plane for two presidents, local media reported Monday.

Eduardo Canala Pecchenino, 39, was on active duty for the Chilean Air Force and worked for the private firm operating the firefighting helicopter with permission from the military.

Riyadh  - A female motorist in Saudi Arabia, where women drivers are banned, has left ten people injured in a road crash, Arab media reported Monday.

The car flipped over on a desert road in the eastern al-Jamaa area, according to London-based al-Hayat newspaper.

Among the injured were seven children, one with a broken leg and another who was taken into intensive care, according to a police source cited by the paper.

New York  - As families mourned victims of the commercial airliner crash in New York state that killed 50 people, officials warned Saturday that it would take at least four days to recover the bodies.

Continental Express flight 3407 from Newark, New Jersey, burst into flames after crashing into a house outside Buffalo, New York, on Thursday night. The victims included all 49 passengers and crew as well as one person in the house, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) said.

Dresden, Germany  - Leftists battled Saturday with riot police escorting a march by far-right protesters in Dresden, Germany.

Much of the German city was destroyed and thousands of Germans burned to death by Allied firebomb raids late February 13 and early February 14, 1945. German neo-Nazis claim the Allies committed a war crime. Left-right clashes are common on the anniversary.

An estimated 6,000 far-right activists, some from outside Germany, marched through Dresden. They were cordoned off by police to prevent any brawling.

Eyewitnesses said several hundred leftists tried to attack the neo-Nazi participants, hurling bottles at the police lines and damaging parked cars. Several people were injured in the violence.

Cairo  - Hamas official Mohamed Nasr said on Saturday the militant group had no time frame for reaching a truce with Israel.

"A truce could be announced after an hour or after tomorrow," Nasr told Deutsche Presse-Agentur, dpa in a phone interview.

Earlier reports from Egypt stated that a truce could be reached on Saturday. Nasr, who is part of a Hamas delegation in Egypt, said his group would not link any truce to the fate of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, who was captured by Hamas in 2007.