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US awaits ‘Boston bomber’ charges
US prosecutors prepare charges against the surviving Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who remains injured in hospital.
US waits to question ‘Boston bomber’
A top US interrogation group waits to question Boston Marathon bomb suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is “serious but stable” in hospital.
Boston marathon ‘bomber’ captured
The teenage suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is in custody after being found bleeding and hiding in a boat in a homeowner’s backyard.
Suicide bomber kills guard at U.S. embassy in Turkey
ANKARA (Reuters) – A far-leftist suicide bomber killed a Turkish security guard at the U.S. embassy in Ankara on Friday, officials said, blowing open an entrance and sending debris flying through the air.
Suicide bomber kills 9 outside army base near Baghdad
BAGHDAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber in a car detonated his explosives outside an army base near Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least nine people and wounding 24 more, police and hospital sources said.
Suicide bomber kills 8, wounds 100 in Nigerian church
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) – A suicide bomber drove a jeep full of explosives into a Catholic church during morning mass in northern Nigeria on Sunday, killing at least eight people, wounding more than 100 and triggering reprisal attacks that killed … Continue reading
Court gives “Millennium Bomber” tougher 37-year sentence
SEATTLE (Reuters) – “Millennium bomber” Ahmed Ressam, whose original 22-year prison term was deemed too lenient by an appeals court, was re-sentenced to 37 years behind bars on Wednesday for a foiled New Year’s Eve 1999 plot to set off … Continue reading
Queen unveils RAF bomber memorial
A £6m memorial to the 55,573 airmen of Bomber Command who died fighting the Axis powers during WWII has been unveiled by the Queen.
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi to be buried in Libya
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – The Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie will be buried on Monday in a quiet ceremony that Libyans hope will allow them to leave behind the controversy that surrounded him in … Continue reading
Lockerbie bomber Megrahi has died in Libya: brother
TRIPOLI (Reuters) – Abdel Basset al-Megrahi, the Libyan convicted of the 1988 bombing of a PanAm flight over Lockerbie, died of cancer on Sunday aged 60, leaving many questions on the attack and its aftermath unanswered.