December 28 News international

Wednesday 28 December, 2011.

TOP STORY N Korea bids wintry farewell to late leader North Korea on Wednesday laid to rest its late leader Kim Jong-Il in an elaborate show of communist pomp as his youthful son and successor escorted the funeral cortege through a snowbound Pyongyang. HEADLINES Mubarak returns to court after three months  Egypt's ousted ruler Hosni Mubarak returned to court on Wednesday, wheeled in on a stretcher, for the resumption of his trial after three months on charges of ordering the shooting of anti-regime protesters. Bomb kills three NATO troops in Afghanistan  A roadside bomb attack killed three NATO troops in eastern Afghanistan, one of the deadliest flashpoints in the 10-year war against Taliban insurgents, the military said today. 90,000 displaced in Nigerian city hard hit by violence Deadly clashes between Islamists and security forces last week have displaced an estimated 90,000 people in the northeastern Nigerian city of Damaturu. US military briefs Kayani on NATO air strike probe report  The US military has briefed Pakistani military chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani on the investigation details of the 26th November NATO air strike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, a Pentagon spokesman said on Wednesday. AFRICA & SOUTH AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH ASIA WEST ASIA

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