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Son: Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing is dead Sunday, 20 May 2012, 1:14 pm
Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died Sunday nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He was 60.Source: Yahoo! News - Top Stories |
Sudan releases four detained foreigners: officials Sunday, 20 May 2012, 1:13 pm
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan has released four foreigners detained near the border with South Sudan following weeks of heavy clashes between the two African neighbours, officials said on Sunday. Sudan said it had arrested the four - a Briton, a Norwegian, a South African and a South Sudanese - last month, accusing them of illegally entering an oil-producing border area to spy for South Sudan. South Sudanese officials denied those allegations, saying the men were working with the United Nations and aid groups clearing mines, and had got lost in the remote territory. ...Source: Yahoo! News - Top Stories |
Explosion near U.N. ceasefire monitor chief's convoy: Reuters witness Sunday, 20 May 2012, 1:12 pm
DOUMA, Syria (Reuters) - A roadside bomb exploded on Sunday about 150 meters (yards) from a United Nations convoy carrying the head of a Syria ceasefire monitoring mission and a senior U.N. official in the town of Douma, a Reuters witness said. Major General Robert Mood's car was stopped at an army checkpoint when the bomb detonated in an nearby alleyway and the convoy left, the Reuters journalist said, adding that there were no reports of casualties. United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous, who is visiting Syria, was also part of the convoy. ...Source: Yahoo! News - Top Stories |
Pakistan blocks Twitter over contentious tweets Sunday, 20 May 2012, 1:10 pm
Pakistan blocked the social networking website Twitter on Sunday because it refused to remove tweets considered offensive to Islam, said one of the country's top telecommunications officials.Source: Yahoo! News - Top Stories |
Bomb explodes near UN observers' chief in Syria Sunday, 20 May 2012, 1:03 pm
A roadside bomb exploded in a restive suburb of the Syrian capital as senior U.N. officials toured the area on Sunday, blowing off the front of a parked vehicle but causing no casualties.
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