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U.S. senator wants Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi back in jail because he's still alive after three...

A U.S. senator has demanded the return of the Lockerbie bomber to prison in Scotland because he is still alive three months after being released. Charles Schumer has written to Gordon Brown, saying Britain should seek the...

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Zimbabwe: Uncle Sam - Friend or Foe?

opinion WORLD opinion remains sharply divided over the United States of America's role in global politics given its partiality, hypocrisy and double-standards in its dealings with other nations. And the horrendous crisis...

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Libya: Lockerbie bomber asked back to jail

The Libyan man, Abdul Al-Megrahi, behind the 1988 bombing of a United States plane over Lockerbie, Scotland, who was released because he had less than three months to die, is still very much alive at the end of his third month...

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Storms to batter UK again at end of week

By Greig Box Turnbull 16/11/2009 Tornadoes and torrential rain battered Britain at the weekend, and there's more to come this week. Two people died in a crash during a storm in Moffat, Dumfriesshire, while 60 homes were damaged...

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Scots outraged over bomber's release

Do not believe that Scotland was united behind Justice Secretary Kenny MacAskill's decision to grant "compassionate" release to the terminally ill convicted Pan Am 103 bomber Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi in August. When...

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US treatment of kingpins

History suggests that there is nothing wrong with the Jamaican Government being careful with its decision regarding the United States' (US), request for the extradition of Christopher 'Dudus' Coke.While extradition requests...

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SU remembers Pan Am Flight 103 victims

Thirty-five roses in honor of 35 lives cut short. Syracuse University held its annual Rose Laying Ceremony Friday for the victims of Pan Am Flight 103. They died when a bomb went off in their plane over Lockerbie, Scotland...

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SOS signals

The five Scottish sites are among 28 on the shortlist across the UK Five Scottish villages are among the final contenders for a £400,000 revival in a BBC television series. They are on a shortlist of 28 UK sites which could...

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Pan Am flight 103 victims remembered

Many of the Syracuse University students who died when Pan Am flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland were involved in music and the arts. The 35 students from were returning from a semester studying abroad. Wednesday...

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Lockerbie: Human rights lawyer states Megrahi was framed

By Steve James Leading British human rights lawyer Gareth Peirce has stated that, in her opinion Abdel Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the only man accused and convicted of the 1988 bombing of PanAm flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland,...

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