An ex-leader of a militant group that claimed responsibility for a dual car bombing that killed 12 in Nigeria has been arrested in Johannesburg.

An ex-leader of a militant group that claimed responsibility for a dual car bombing that killed 12 in Nigeria has been arrested in Johannesburg.

The young Nigerian man who allegedly tried to bring down a trans-Atlantic flight broke off contact from his worried parents only a few months before the attack, they said today in a statement.

A CAR exploded outside the Russian military’s headquarters in South Ossetia yesterday, killing six people and wounding four, the government of the Moscow-backed separatist region in Georgia said.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko today dismissed his Cabinet amid swirling allegations of corruption, saying members of the fragile coalition formed after last year’s Orange Revolution had turned on one another.

President Viktor Yushchenko, introducing Ukraine’s new security chief, told the discredited State Security Service today that it should get out of politics and commerce and concentrate on fighting corruption and winning the people’s trust.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry lashed out at Britain’s Channel 4 television, which was scheduled to broadcast a videotaped interview with Chechen rebel leader Shamil Basayev today.

Ukraine’s top security service denied today that it had any involvement with the poisoning of opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko (pictured), the leading candidate in Boxing Day’s rerun for the presidency.