A Lebanese man who was serving a life sentence in Germany for the 1985 hijacking of a TWA jetliner and the killing of a US Navy diver has returned to Lebanon after German authorities paroled him, a Lebanese security official and the Hezbollah guerrilla group said today.

Two Yemenis suspected of belonging to Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaida network and arrested in Germany as part of a joint US-German terrorism investigation are to appear before a judge today, prosecutors in Frankfurt said.

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder’s justice minister was under fire today for comparing President George Bush’s methods to those of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler.