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Rebel group warns of 'hell' in Turkey
ANTALYA - A Kurdish rebel group yesterday threatened to turn Turkey into "hell" after a two-day bombing spree which killed three people and wounded dozens of others at popular tourist resorts.
The Kurdish Liberation Hawks said it bombed a busy shopping area in the coastal resort of Antalya on Monday, killing three people and wounding dozens, including European and Middle Eastern tourists. The blast followed four bombs in the Mediterranean resort of Marmaris and in Istanbul that wounded 27 people. - (Reuters)
Prosecutor admits Karr case errors
MIAMI - The prosecutor in the 10-year-old murder case of child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey admitted last night that she should be held accountable for mistakes made in the botched investigation after the prime suspect was exonerated by DNA evidence.
John Mark Karr, who was brought back to the US to face a murder charge after confession in Thailand, was freed after examination showed his DNA did not match samples taken from the six-year- old's underwear after her December 26th, 1996 killing. - (Guardian service)
18 suspected Taliban killed
KABUL - US-led forces in Afghanistan killed 18 suspected Taliban, the military said yesterday, while two Afghans died in a suicide bombing of a Nato convoy - part of the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban five years ago. - (Reuters)
UN to discuss Iran in fortnight
NEW YORK - UN talks on Iran's nuclear programme are expected to take place in mid-September, two weeks after a UN Security Council deadline for Tehran, Britain's UN ambassador said yesterday. The security council has given Iran until tomorrow to suspend uranium enrichment and has threatened to consider sanctions unless it does so. - (Reuters)
Wives of pilots in terror plot
RABAT - Morocco has stepped up security at its airports after discovering that the wives of two pilots at national airline Royal Air Maroc had been funding a radical Islamist cell, led by the Ansar El Mehdi cell, state news agency MAP reported. - (Reuters)
British Muslim on conspiracy charge
LONDON - A young British Muslim arrested during an investigation into an alleged plot to blow up US-bound airliners was charged with conspiracy to murder, police said on Tuesday.
Nabeel Hussain (22) is the 13th person charged in connection with the plot and the ninth to face the most serious charges of conspiracy to murder and planning acts of terrorism. - (Reuters)
Disgraced ex-PM plans comeback
PARIS - France's disgraced former prime minister Alain Juppe yesterday announced his return to politics, two years after he was convicted of corruption in a party funding scandal. Mr Juppe was found guilty in 2004 of being part of a corrupt scheme in the 1980s to put workers for Jacques Chirac's neo-Gaullist RPR party on the payroll of Paris town hall. - (Guardian service)
eBay buyer robbed at gunpoint
SUSSEX - A man who bought a car on eBay was robbed at gunpoint when he went to hand over the cash, it was reported yesterday.
Shahzad Ali Shah (23) from West Sussex, was told by the seller of a Mercedes Benz Kompressor C180 that a cash purchase would secure him his dream car. But when he and two family members went to meet the seller in east London on August 20th they were robbed at gunpoint by a gang of four men. - (PA)