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Breaking News Mon, 21 May 2012
In this Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 file photo Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing but recently released from his Scottish prison on compassionate grounds, is seen below a portrait of Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi, as he is visited by a group of African parliamentarians, not pictured, at Tripoli Medical Center in Tripoli, Libya.
Libya   Photos   Terrorism   UK   Wikipedia: Pan Am Flight 103 bombing trial  
 Mail Guardian South Africa 
UK rules out further Lockerbie inquiries after Al-Megrahi's death
Mon 21 May 2012
| The prime minister said the court case, which convicted Megrahi, was properly conducted and news of his death on Sunday should “be a time to remember the 270 people who lost their lives in wha... (photo: AP / Abdel Magid Al Fergany)
Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, top left, is hugged by Seif al-Islam el- Gadhafi, son of Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, upon his arrival at airport in Tripoli, Libya, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2009.
Bombing   Libya   Lockerbie   Photos   Wikipedia: Abdelbaset al-Megrahi  
 The New York Times 
Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, Convicted in 1988 Lockerbie Bombing, Dies at 60
Mon 21 May 2012
| Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi, the only person convicted in the 1988 bombing of an American jetliner over Lockerbie, Scotland, has died in Libya, family members told news agencies on Sunday, three yea... (photo: AP / Amr Nabil)
In this file photo taken Sunday, April 19, 2009, Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, center, is led away after declaring he planned to challenge then Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad about his views on the Holocaust and Israel  The Examiner  Sun 20 May 2012
Dershowitz demolishes Zimmerman prosecution
| After writing in the New York Daily News that murder charges should be dropped against George Zimmerman in the slaying of Trayvon Martin, liberal law professor and author Alan Dershowitz appeared on... (photo: AP / Anja Niedringhaus)
Lawmaker   Legal   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Alan Dershowitz  
Sri Lankan lawmaker and former military chief Sarath Fonseka  gestures during a media briefing in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Thursday, Aug. 19, 2010  The Guardian  Sun 20 May 2012
Sri Lanka set to release jailed ex-army chief
| COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's president has ordered authorities to free the country's jailed former army chief turned presidential candidate. | A presidential spokesman says President Mahi... (photo: AP / Chamila Karunarathne)
Military   Photos   Politics   Sri Lanka   Wikipedia: Sri Lanka  
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Blind Chinese legal activist Chen Guangcheng arrives at Washington Square Village on the campus of New York University, Saturday, May 19, 2012, in New York. The Times Of India Sun 20 May 2012
Blind Chinese activist Chen arrives in United States
SHARE | AND | DISCUSSTweet NEW YORK: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng arrived in the United States on Saturday and declared "equality and justice have no boundarie... (photo: AP / Henny Ray Abrams)
China   Human Rights   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Chen Guangcheng  
 Violence erupted again in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as Lendu militia, who were driven out of Bunia yesterday by rival Hema fighters, have regrouped and launched a counter-offensive to regain control of the town, the United Al Jazeera Sat 19 May 2012
Thousands flee DR Congo violence
| Fighting between government troops and rebels has displaced hundreds of thousands people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). | The fighting has been mo... (photo: UN)
Africa   DR Congo   Photos   Violence   Wikipedia: Democratic Republic of the Congo  
The R339 road at the Prince Alfred Pass over the Langkloof Mountains, Western Cape, South Africa BBC News Sat 19 May 2012
South Africa targets rainbow tourists
There is arguably no worse place in the world to be gay than Africa. Today more than two-thirds of African countries have laws criminalising homosexual acts and across th... (photo: Creative Commons / NJR ZA)
Africa   Market   Photos   Tourism   USA   Wikipedia: South Africa  
Building of the Supreme Court of Texas The Los Angeles Times Fri 18 May 2012
Court to Texas: Pay $2 million to man imprisoned for 26 years
| HOUSTON -- The Texas Supreme Court the Lone Star State to pay more than $2 million to a former inmate who spent 26 years in prison for murder, a ruling that could set a... (photo: Public Domain / WhisperToMe)
Court   Photos   Supreme Court   Texas   Wikipedia: Supreme Court of Texas  
Mitt Romney town hall in Dayton, Ohi The Columbus Dispatch Fri 18 May 2012
Biden softens his attack on Romney, Bain Capital
| The Daily Briefing | Even before he came out in favor of same-sex marriage, President Barack Obama's re-election campaign was benefitting from money raised by lesbian, ... (photo: Creative Commons / Terence Burlij/PBS NewsHour)
Election   Photos   Republican   Romney   Wikipedia: Mitt Romney presidential campaign, 2012  
File - Chinese soldiers look at cars confiscated from a company owned by fugitive smuggling suspect Lai Changxing, including a bullet-proofed Mercedes Benz, at an anti-smuggling exhibition in Beijing Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004. Denver Post Fri 18 May 2012
China sentences fugitive smuggler Lai to life term
| BEIJING—The man once considered China's most-wanted fugitive was sentenced to life in prison for smuggling and bribery in a lurid corruption case that reached int... (photo: AP / Greg Baker)
China   Corruption   Crime   Photos   Wikipedia: Lai Changxing  


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