A roundup of today's other world news in brief:
UK delegation to visit Libya over IRA victims
LONDON– Tripoli has invited a delegation of British parliamentarians to Libya to discuss the case of families of IRA victims who say Col Muammar Gadafy's regime helped arm the guerrillas, lawyers for the families said yesterday.
“The delegation will meet with their counterparts in Libya to discuss the tragedy of the UK victims while proposing a way forward to resolve this matter,” said London legal firm H20 Law.
Campaigners for IRA victims want compensation from Col Gadafy, who they say shipped Semtex explosives in the 1980s and 1990s to paramilitaries fighting to end British rule of Northern Ireland.
– (Reuters)
Afghan crisis
WASHINGTON– The US and UK were attempting last night to avert a political crisis in Afghanistan as fears mounted in Kabul that Afghan president Hamid Karzai would refuse to accept the results of an official inquiry into massive electoral fraud that is expected to trigger a fresh round of voting.
Diplomatic sources said US secretary of state Hillary Clinton was due to call Mr Karzai last night.
– (Guardian service)
Former Serb officer jailed for genocide
SARAJEVO– Bosnia's war crimes court jailed a former Serb officer for 30 years yesterday on a charge of genocide for killing dozens of people during the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of Muslims.
The court acquitted former army captain Milorad Trbic (51) of three other counts of genocide due to lack of evidence, the head of the judicial council, Davorin Jukic, said, in a decision that angered victims’ relatives.
Trbic was found guilty of taking part in the persecution of Bosnian Muslims from the Srebrenica enclave and their detention, summary executions, burial and covering traces of crime.
Some 8,000 Muslim men and boys were killed in the Srebrenica massacre after Bosnian Serb forces captured the eastern enclave on July 11th, 1995.
– (Reuters)