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Abdul Baset Ali al-Megrahi, the “Lockerbie bomber,” convicted in the deaths of 270 people in the 1998 bombing of Pan Am flight 103, is released from a Scottish prison<\/a> and flown to his native Libya. Megrahi is terminally ill with prostate cancer and is expected to live at the most three months.<\/p>\n

Millions of ballots are being counted in Afghanistan’s second presidential election<\/a>. Afghan officials say that voter turnout was good despite violence targeted at polling stations, but election observers suggest less than 50 percent of eligible voters went to the polls.<\/p>\n

North Korea<\/a> plans to send a high-level delegation to South Korea to pay respects to former South Korean President Kim Dae-jung, who died Tuesday.<\/p>\n

More than 1,300 children are poisoned by lead<\/a> pollution from a new, unlicensed manganese smelter in China’s Hunan province. This is the second mass lead poisoning incident in China in the past month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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