An Al-Qaeda leader in Iraq boasted before last week’s failed bombings in London and Glasgow that his group was planning to attack British targets and that “those who cure you will kill you,” The Times newspaper revealed Wednesday.

Boris Berezovsky, the exiled Russian billionaire and fierce Kremlin critic who lives in London, has been formally accused by Russian authorities of plotting a coup.

Released BBC correspondent Alan Johnston, kidnapped March 12 in Gaza by a group calling itself the Army of Islam, described his nearly four months in captivity as being “buried alive.”

At least 12 people were killed and 58 injured when two buses crashed head-on in Egypt’s Sinai peninsula on Tuesday, a security source said.

Primarul sectorului 5, Marian Vanghelie, l-a făcut, astăzi, pe Adriean Videanu, “nemernic, hoÅ£ ÅŸi măgar” deoarece nu apără interesele bucureÅŸtenilor, nu ia măsuri pentru salvarea parcului Bordei ÅŸi pentru că l-a dat afară din birou.

A crowd of 10,000 people gathered in the Turkish city of Sivas on Monday (July 2nd) to remember 37 secular intellectuals who were killed by Islamic extremists in 1993.

Security forces have seized almost a tonne of explosive materials in the first half of the year, Zaman newspaper reported on Tuesday (July 3rd).

Missing US defence attaché Thomas Mooney was found dead by police on Monday (July 2nd), after going missing on Thursday. Sources tell AP the body was found near his locked car in a remote rural area.

A court in Bihac on Monday (July 2nd) sentenced a Bosnian Serb man to 15 years in prison for war crimes against Muslims.

Prime Minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said on Monday (July 2nd) that the date of the country’s first elections for European Parliament members will be set for September, immediately after the summer recess ends.