December 31 News international

Saturday 31 December, 2011.

TOP STORY Pak SC orders time-bound probe into memo scandal In a major set back to the embattled Pakistan’s civilian leadership, the country’s supreme court has ordered a time bound investigation into a memo seeking the US help to prevent a military coup after the killing of Osama Bin Laden. HEADLINES 4 killed in Nigeria attack  A blast followed by a shootout near a mosque claimed four lives as suspected militants of a radical group launched an attack in the troubled northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri. Emboldened by monitors, Syrians hold huge protests  In the largest protests Syria has seen in months, hundreds of thousands of people have taken to the streets in a display of defiance to show an Arab League observer mission the strength of the opposition movement. Iran test fires long range missiles in key oil waterway  Iran which has been carrying out war games in the Strait of Hormuz over the past week, test fired shorter-and-longer range missiles in the key oil waterway on Saturday. North Korea names Kim Jong Un its supreme military commander North Korea on Saturday said Kim Jong-Un, the son of late leader Kim Jong-Il, had assumed the "supreme commandership" of the reclusive nation's million-strong military, state media reported. AFRICA & SOUTH AMERICA ASIA PACIFIC EUROPE NORTH AMERICA SOUTH ASIA WEST ASIA

OTHER TOP STORIES Russian nuclear submarine fire contained, no radiation threat