Four people were killed in Mogadishu Wednesday in continuing violence a day before the resumption of the troubled peace talks.

The United States faces an increased threat of attack from Al Qaeda, which will likely try to use battle-hardened associates in Iraq to strike inside the United States, an intelligence report warned on Tuesday.

Libya said on Wednesday the ball is in Europe’s court over the fate of six foreign medics reprieved from a death sentence for infecting children with the AIDS virus but who are still anxiously waiting to return home after eight years behind bars.