BAHRAIN: Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters have flooded a major highway in Bahrain, demanding a halt to this weekend’s Formula One race.
As practise runs take place on the track, the Gulf kingdom’s crown prince vowed the country’s premier sporting event would go ahead.
NORWAY: Norwegian far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik has shocked an Oslo courtroom with his grisly descriptions of a massacre carried out on an island youth camp.
Survivors of the July 22 killings hugged each other and sobbed during Breivik’s testimony in the city’s district court.
PAKISTAN: A passenger jet with 127 people on board has crashed close to the Pakistani capital, aviation officials say.
They said the Bhoja Air jet crashed as it was landing in bad weather in Islamabad.
AMERICA: In a videotaped deposition made public for the first time, a British man convicted in an aborted shoe-bombing mission admitted meeting with Osama bin Laden after deciding to fight jihad against the West.
US prosecutors and defence lawyers interviewed Saajid Badat just outside London late last month in preparation for the New York trial of Adis Medunjanin,
FRANCE: The left-wing firebrand who has shaken up France’s presidential campaign has said his country should reach out to China and resist US hegemony.
Jean-Luc Melenchon of the Left Front party is tapping an anti-capitalist mood in France and is expected to make a relatively strong showing in Sunday’s first round elections.
AMERICA: The US Navy is initiating dismissal proceedings against two Marines from a squad that killed 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005.
A Navy spokeswoman said Navy Secretary Ray Mabus made the decision because Sergeant Sanick Dela Cruz and Sergeant Humberto Mendoza lied to military investigators after the massacre.
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