World News

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  Suicide bomber kills 90 in military parade blast
  22 May 2012

  A suicide bomber infiltrated a rehearsal of a military parade in Sanaa yesterday, killing at least 90 people, and wounding a further 200, mostly soldiers.

• Election result adds to turmoil
  22 May 2012

  Nationalist candidate Tomislav Nikolic has won the Serbian presidency, a result that adds to the political turmoil in the Balkan country and could slow down its attempts to join the European Union.

• Two dead as Syrian fight enters Lebanon
  22 May 2012

  Two people were killed and 15 others injured in street battles between pro and anti-Syrian groups in the Lebanese capital as the spiralling conflict in neighbouring Syria spilled across the border.

• Ex-army chief freed from jail
  22 May 2012

  Sri Lanka's former army chief walked free from jail yesterday with a pardon from President Mahinda Rajapaksa, who appears to have bowed to growing international demands that he release his highest-profile rival.

• Thousands homeless after earthquake
  22 May 2012

  Thousands of people in northern Italy slept in tents and cars overnight as more than 100 aftershocks rocked the area hit by a magnitude 6.0 earthquake which killed seven people and inflicted heavy damage to centuries-old cultural sites.

• Opposition leader to face court
  22 May 2012

  MALAYSIAN opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim will be charged over his role in a street protest against the Government last month.

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  Megrahi buried in Libya
  21 May 2012

  The only man convicted over the 1988 Lockerbie bombing has been buried with little fanfare near the Libyan capital.

• Bahrain activists is granted bail
  21 May 2012

  DUBAI: A Bahraini court has granted bail to leading activist Nabeel Rajab, who is charged with insulting authorities in the Gulf Arab state, but he is still being held pending trial for another case.