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Officials in the US say 4 people have been charged with conspiring to attack fuel supply tanks and pipelines to the John.F. Kennedy international airport in New York. Officials said the plot was thwarted early in the planning stages, but that the consequences could have been unthinkable. Adam Brooks reports from Washington.
The FBI described one of the four as a self radicalized Islamic extremist. He was named as Russell Defreitas , A native of Guyana, but a US citizen who had actually worked at JFK. He was arrested in New York. Two other men were in custody in Trinadad. One of them, according to the FBI, a former member of parliament in Guyana. One more man is on the run again in Guyana.The FBI stress that the plot was only in its planning stages. The men had conducted surveillance and had traveled internationally in support of their conspiracy, they said.

Islamist militants in northern Lebanon have vowed to continue resisting the Lebanon's army offensive to force the mount of the Palestinian refuge camp after another day of intense fighting around the Nahr el-Bared camp. A spokesman for the Islamic group Fatah Islam said they could not even contemplate surrender. On Saturday the Lebanese Prime minister Fouad Siniora described Fatah Islam as a terrorist gang. And Lebanese troops again pounded the refugee camp with artillery and mortars. The Lebanese finance minister Jihad Azour told the BBC that the army was taking great care of civilians.
The army is trying to use surgical interventions in order to solve this problem. There is, they are group of terrorists that taking all the camp under, you know, their siege and therefore now the army is trying to achieve two objectives - to solve the issue without be, without having heavy casualties from the army side, as well also from the civilian side, which is not an easy task.

Militants in southern Nigeria say they are halting attacks on oil installations in the Niger Delta region for a month to allow talks with President Olusegun Obasanjo 's new government on the grievances of the people in the area. Alex Last reports from Lagos.
Militant attacks on oil installations in the past year have cut production by a quarter, a significant figure given that Nigeria is Africa's largest oil producer. When it comes to the kidnapping of foreign oil workers, more than 100 have been taken so far this year, the militants are no longer the main culprits, most have been taken by other armed groups and criminal gangs, attracted by the large ransoms they can receive. So kidnapping has become a big Business with its own momentum.

Police are out in force in the northern German city of Rostock, bracing themselves for more violence after clashes broke out during a march by anti-globalization protestors on Saturday. The demonstration was being held in the run-up to the G8 summit due to start on Wednesday. Resdana More has been following the protests.
For several hours there were running battles between hundreds of demonstrators and police officers at the harbor. Police use water cannon and tear gas to break up the crowd. According to the authorities, up to 2000 far-left militants came here to Rostock to create trouble. Earlier the demonstration started peacefully, dozens of different groups including anti-globolization activists and environmental campaigners march from the train station down towards the waterfront.

Thousand of people demonstrated on the streets in Pakistan on Saturday in support of the suspended chief justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. He traveled from Islamabad where rallies were officially banned to Abutabad, 60 km away to address the gathering of lawyers. Mr Chaudhry was suspended by the Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf in March for alleged misconduct.

Jamaican police are under intense pressure to clarify the cause of death of a Pakistan's cricket coach Bob Woolmer . Mr. Woolmer was found dead in his hotel room in Jamaica in March, just after Pakistan had been knocked out of the world cup. Police in Britain asked to assist in the investigation have passed on the findings of a British pathologist, who thinks Bob Woolmer may have died of natural causes and not been murdered.

Horse racing, and one of the most world's great flat races, the Derby at Epsom, England, has been won by the heavily backed favorite authorized at 5:4. The race was a personal triumph for the popular Italy born jockey Frankie Dettori , who finally won the classic at his 15th attempt.