International News

• Powerful quake kills at least four in northern Italy
  Emergency services and news reports say one of the strongest earthquakes to shake the region was measured at magnitude-6.0 and sent people running into the streets.
  
  
• Libyan convicted in Lockerbie bombing dies
  A son says the former Libyan intelligence officer who was the only person ever convicted in the 1988 bombing has died in Tripoli.
  
  
• Nine killed in car bomb in Syria
  Syrian officials say the bomb went off in the parking lot of a military compound in the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.
  
  
• Libya: Benghazi hold first post-Gadhafi vote
  Residents have voted for a local council in the first elections in the eastern Libyan city since the capture and killing of longtime dictator Moammar Gadhafi last year.
  
  
• G-8 leaders: Oil disruption a possibility
  The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations say they are ready to respond to oil supply disruptions as Iran faces sanctions aimed at crippling...
  
  
• Dozens killed in fighting with al-Qaida in Yemen
  Yemeni officials say fresh clashes with al-Qaida fighters in the south have left at least 34 people dead, while a suspected U.S. drone strike has killed two militants.
  
  
• Egypt's election body promises free, fair election
  The measures being taken include ballots with embedded security stamps that cannot be photocopied and transparent folders in which judges monitoring the vote will place their results.
  
  
• Five killed in Somalia blasts
  Police officer Mohamed Aden says a bomb exploded in the sprawling market called Bakara, where Somali police were conducting operations to demolish illegal kiosks and business sites along the streets of Mogadishu.
  
  
• G-8 leaders discuss future of Greece
  The United States and other members of the Group of Eight industrial nations are expressing hope that the country remains in the eurozone.
  
  
• Military parade held for queen
  Queen Elizabeth II watched thousands of Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force troops parade outside her Windsor Castle home to mark her Diamond Jubilee.