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20 May 2012 Last updated at 09:17 ET

Lockerbie bomber Megrahi is deadAbdelbaset al-Megrahi at home in Tripoli (October 2011)

Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi dies at home in Tripoli, nearly three years after he was controversially freed from a Scottish prison.

One of the four foreigners released by Sudan. Photo: April 2012Sudan releases foreign nationals

Sudan releases four foreigners detained last month near in the disputed area near the border with South Sudan, officials say.

Somali government soldiers patrol the Bakara market in Mogadishu (file image from 30 April)Bombs kill soldiers in Mogadishu

Somali government soldiers are among five people killed in two bomb attacks in the capital Mogadishu blamed on al-Shabab Islamist fighters.

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