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NORTHERN Ireland police say suspected Irish Republican Army dissidents have left a bomb in a van near the main road and rail links between Dublin and Belfast. The van contained a viable device which was […] […]

THE president of Tokyo Electric Power Co., which operates Japan’s stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, was admitted to hospital on Tuesday evening, local media reported today TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu, 66, was suffering high blood […] […]

A DUBAI court has jailed an Italian for four months for sexually molesting a woman who was drugged and drunk on a flight from Jakarta, an Emirati newspaper reported. The National said the court heard […] […]

BRITISH Army experts in Northern Ireland have defused a bomb that was packed into a beer keg and abandoned near the courthouse in Londonderry, a mostly Catholic city where IRA dissidents are particularly active. No […] […]

BRITISH Prime Minister David Cameron has told the leaders of the US, Germany and France that today’s London talks on Libya should “broaden the coalition” of nations committed to enforcing UN resolutions. “The prime minister […] […]

WORKERS have discovered new pools of radioactive water leaking from Japan’s crippled nuclear plant that officials believe are behind soaring levels of radiation spreading to soil and seawater. Crews also detected plutonium in the soil […] […]

BELFAST, Northern Ireland—The family of a 12-year-old Catholic girl fatally shot in the back by a British Army soldier in 1976 has received a face-to-face apology from the senior British government official in Northern Ireland. […] […]

DAMASCUS—Troops opened fire on protesters in cities across Syria and pro- and anti-government crowds clashed in the capital’s historic old city as one of the Mideast’s most repressive regimes sought to put down demonstrations that […] […]

A FORMER British taxi driver dubbed the “Night Stalker” has been jailed for life for a 17-year campaign of sexual assaults on elderly men and women. Delroy Grant, 53, was told he will spend a […] […]

LIBYAN leader Muammar Gaddafi could stage a Lockerbie-style attack in revenge for coalition air strikes if he is left in power, British Justice Secretary Ken Clarke says. Mr Clarke, who is also Lord Chancellor, the […] […]