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Terror plot mastermind killed by US missile in Pakistan: Officials
The alleged al-Qaeda mastermind of a 2006 transatlantic airplane bombing plot was killed in a US missile attack in northwest Pakistan early Saturday, officials said. Rashid Rauf died when a missile hit a tribesman's house in the village of Alikhel, part of a border district known as a stronghold for al-Qaeda and the Taliban militants.
Former Maldivian President Ibrahim Nasir dead
Former Maldivian President Ibrahim Nasir died last evening at a hospital in Singapore, his grand-son Ibrahim Nasir has confirmed, according to Maldivian media reports.
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