Tim Griffin, formerly right hand man to Karl Rove, resigned Thursday as US Attorney for Arkansas hours after BBC Television ‘Newsnight’ reported that Congressman John Conyers requested the network’s evidence on Griffin’s involvement in ‘caging voters.’
The Lebanese army has resumed shelling the Nahr al-Bared Palestinian refugee camp after a lull in the clashes with fighters from the Fatah al-Islam group overnight.
A bridge on the main road between Baghdad and the northern city of Kirkuk has been badly damaged in a bomb attack, amid an Iraqi official announcement that nearly 2,000 civilians died during May.
Thousands of people marched through the northern German port city of Rostock on Saturday to protest against the forthcoming Group of Eight meeting of industrialised powers.
US warships have bombed a fishing town in northeastern Somalia after an armed group clashed with troops from the country's semi-autonomous region of Puntland.