United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has urged Cuba to
build on
its decision to release up to 52 political prisoners, first of whom were freed last week. Mr. Ban said the UN expected Cuba to do more to establish the rule of law and respect human rights, and it urged it to take further
reconciliatory
measures.
The British Prime Minister David Cameron has again said the Scotland's decision to release the Lockerbie bomber, Abdel Baset al-Megrahi , last year was wrong. Mr. Cameron told the BBC that he personally saw no case for freeing him. Mr. al-Megrahi / was sent to Libya, because he had terminal cancer, cancer that he is still alive. Here's Rob Watson.
David Cameron strongly criticized the decision to free al-Megrahi at the time / he was released from prison last August. That he's done so again
ahead of
his visit to Washington and New York may well help Mr. Cameron in a country where feelings are running high so close to the one-year anniversary of the Libyan's release. Lockerbie and BP's alleged role in
lobby
ing for al-Megrahi's release are likely to feature in Mr. Cameron's talks in the US.
We've just heard that the US official responsible for the clean-up of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, Thad Allen, has said the
seepage
near to the fractured well is not related to the testing of the cap by BP.
As a result
, he is allowing the testing of the cap on the well to be continued for another 24 hours.