2010年8月15日星期日

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Yahoo! News: World - Britain

Talks with N. Ireland dissidents no betrayal: police chief (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 03:12 PM PDT

Northern Ireland's police chief said that opening talks with armed groups would not amount to a betrayal, despite recent bomb attacks that have targeted members of the police and army. Chief Constable Matt Baggott, pictured in 2009, said dissident republicans, who are seeking to derail the province's peace process and have been blamed for the attacks, had to be confronted.(AFP/File/Peter Muhly)AFP - Northern Ireland's police chief said on Sunday that opening talks with armed groups would not amount to a betrayal, despite recent bomb attacks that have targeted members of the police and army.

Lockerbie families raise new questions over bomber (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 12:01 PM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Lockerbie bomber Abdel Baset al-Megrahi holds his prisoner release papers as he boards an aeroplane at Glasgow International Airport, Glasgow, Scotland, bound for Tripoli. Al-Megrahi was released on compassionate grounds from a Scottish prison in August 2009, and allowed to return home to Libya, where a year later he continues to be treated for prostate cancer, although the cancer expert Prof. Karol Sikora, who said al-Megrahi had only three months to live before his release from prison is quoted in news reports Sunday Aug. 15, 2010, as saying he should have been more cautious about the prisoner's chances of survival. (AP Photo/Danny Lawson, File)AP - The regrets of a cancer expert who assessed the only man ever convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie jetliner bombing have intensified the anger felt by victims' relatives over Scotland's decision to release the Libyan on compassionate grounds.

Veterans mark WWII victory over Japan (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 08:43 AM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron lays a wreath during a service to commemorate the 65th anniversary of victory against Japanese forces during the Second World War, in London. War veterans marked the anniversary in a solemn ceremony attended by Prince Charles.(AFP/Carl de Souza)AFP - Veterans of World War II marked the 65th anniversary of the Allies' victory over Japan on Sunday in a solemn ceremony attended by Prince Charles and Prime Minister David Cameron.

Two Iraqis to stand trial for killing 6 UK troops (AP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 07:21 AM PDT

Senior forensic anthropologist of the Bosnia-based International Commission for Missing Persons, Cheryl Katzmarzyk, shows a group of Iraqi experts how victims whose bones were found in several mass graves are put back together at the Commission's department in the northern Bosnian town of Lukavac, 72 kms north of Bosnian capital of Sarajevo, on Tuesday,Oct.6, 2009. In Bosnia the killers excavated the mass graves in which they originally threw their victims and reburied them elsewhere to hide the crime. They used bulldozers which cut the remains in two or three parts so experts now keep finding a mix of bones in graves and have to send almost each for DNA processing in order to put skeletons together like jigsaw puzzles. Officials in Baghdad estimate that 350,000 human remains are hidden in mass graves throughout the country. Human rights groups say it could be close to a million.(AP Photo/Amel Emric)AP - Britain's defense ministry says two suspects will stand trial in Iraq for the killing of six military policemen in 2003.

Five Iraqis cleared over British soldier deaths (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 05:56 AM PDT

British soldiers in Basra, southern Iraq, in 2007. Five Iraqis have been cleared of involvement in the deaths of six British soldiers at the hands of a mob in 2003, but two others will go on trial, the Ministry of Defence in London said.(AFP/File/Ali al-Saadi)AFP - Five Iraqis have been cleared of involvement in the deaths of six British soldiers at the hands of a mob in 2003, but two others will go on trial, the Ministry of Defence in London said Sunday.

Relatives re-trace Titanic route to mark 100 years (AFP)

Posted: 15 Aug 2010 04:54 AM PDT

An undated artist impression showing the 14 April 1912 shipwreck of the British luxury passenger liner Titanic off the Nova-Scotia coast, during its maiden voyage. Relatives of passengers on the ocean liner will re-trace the vessel's fateful journey across the Atlantic on a memorial cruise to mark 100 years since it sank.(AFP/File)AFP - Relatives of passengers on the Titanic will re-trace the ocean liner's fateful journey across the Atlantic on a memorial cruise to mark 100 years since it sank in 1912.

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