| Sun, 20 May 2012 Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya | He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters — a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. His name, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, was little known compared to the single wo... | NATO Summit: Missile shield risks Russian wrath | NATO leaders are set to activate the first phase of a US-led missile shield for Europe on Sunday, risking the wrath of Russia which has threatened to deploy rockets to EU borders in response. | The declaration by US President Barack Obama and his allies at a Chicago s... | Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies | Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, a former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's ... | Lockerbie bomber dies in his bed | ABDEL Baset al-Megrahi, a Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person convicted in the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, died last night nearly three years after he was released from a Scottish prison to the outrage of the relatives of the attack's 270 victims. He ... | A sitting duck for might and power | You need not be a student of international geo-politics to notice China's rapid economic expansion. You only need to keep an occasional eye on TV where ads for Chinese car and truck companies are increasingly frequent. | Chinese economic might underpins the natio... | Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya | Click photo to enlargeFILE - This undated file photo, issued by the British Crown Office, shows Abdel Baset al-Megrahi. A son says Al-Megrahi, the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Scot... | R. Crumb stars at U. of C. comics panel | Over the weekend, as the NATO summit was stopping traffic across the Loop and you wondered whether Chicago would ever get a grip, in Hyde Park, at the new Logan Center for the Arts, a different, more mellow kind of summit was going on, a gathering of cartooning royalt... | China, the Philippines, and the Scarborough Shoal | Earlier this week, the USS North Carolina -- a Virginia class fast attack submarine -- took Chinese and Philippine authorities alike by surprise after resurfacing in Philippine waters and docking in Subic Bay -- the economic free port zone in the Philippine province o... | Convicted Lockerbie bomber dies of cancer in Libya | HAMZA HENDAWI | Associated Press= TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — He was the embodiment of one of modern Libya's darkest chapters — a man synonymous with horrifying scenes of wreckage, broken families and a plane that fell out of the sky a generation ago. His name, Abdel Ba... | | |
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