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Brown Voices Support for I.R.A. Victims’ Quest for Libya Compensation

Prime Minister Gordon Brown said that Britain would support efforts to extract compensation from Libya, which supplied explosives to the I.R.A.

Fake Afghan Poll Sites Favored Karzai, Officials Assert

Election workers loyal to President Hamid Karzai set up hundreds of fictitious polling sites that delivered votes for the incumbent, according to officials.

Germany on Defense After Afghan Strike

Germany defended itself Monday against international criticism of a devastating NATO airstrike that German forces in Afghanistan had requested last week.

Aid Group Says U.S. Troops Raided Afghan Hospital

A Swedish aid agency said that U.S. soldiers stormed through one of its hospitals last week, searching for wounded Taliban fighters, breaking down doors, and tying up hospital staffers and visitors.

British Court Convicts Three in Plot to Blow Up Airliners

In the largest counter-terrorist investigation in Britain’s history, a court in London convicted three men of plotting to bomb at least seven transatlantic airliners in 2006.