2011年8月29日星期一

Yahoo! News: World - Britain

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yahoo! News: World - Britain


Tough police tactics for London carnival (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 01:14 PM PDT

Revellers dance as they parade through the street during the children day of Notting Hill Carnival in London, Sunday, Aug. 28, 2011.  (AP Photo/Sang Tan)AP - It took extra police and earlier closing times, but London's Notting Hill Carnival, Europe's largest street festival, appeared to give the city what it had hoped for Monday: a chance to regroup and celebrate in the wake of the riots that had occurred in the capital earlier this month and swept across England.


Scotland has no plans to demand Megrahi return (Reuters)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 08:55 AM PDT

Reuters - Scotland said on Monday it had no plans to request the extradition of the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a U.S.-bound airliner over the Scottish town of Lockerbie.

Scotland says Lockerbie bomber still in Tripoli (AP)

Posted: 29 Aug 2011 03:56 AM PDT

FILE - In this Aug. 20, 2009 file photo, Libyan Abdel Baset al-Megrahi, who was found guilty of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, gestures on his arrival in Tripoli, Libya. The Libyan rebels' interim government says it will not deport the man convicted of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. The rebel Justice Minister Mohammed al-Alagi told journalists in Tripoli Sunday that no Libyan citizen would be deported, even Abdel-Baset al-Megrahi, who was convicted in a Scottish court and imprisoned for the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people, but then released due to sickness.(AP Photo, File)AP - The Lockerbie bomber is believed to still be in Tripoli where he is dying of prostate cancer, Scotland's government said Monday, citing parole officials who had contact with the man's family.


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