revive

faith in the Libyan judiciary. He said it's crucial that the Libyan state shows that the new Libya will guarantee international standards in prosecuting alleged criminals.

The Bolivian President Evo Morales has nationalised a Spanish-owned electric power company. Mr Morales ordered the military to take over the subsidiary of the Spanish power company REE, which owns and runs around three quarters of Bolivia's power grid. He said he was

expropriating

the company because it had failed to invest sufficiently in Bolivia.

A court in New York has found a Bosnian-born American citizen guilty of plotting to bomb the city's subway network in 2009. The court heard that Adis Medunjanin was persuaded to carry out a suicide attack after receiving training with al-Qaeda in Pakistan. He was convicted in part on the basis of evidence given by two co-conspirators who

pleaded guilty

and are awaiting sentencing.

The former head of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, has had his application for diplomatic

immunity

thrown out by a judge in New York. Mr Strauss-Kahn will now face a civil trial in a case filed by a hotel maid who alleges he sexually assaulted her. Criminal charges were dropped when doubts emerged about the consistency of the evidence.

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There's been a second day of shooting in the Malian capital Bamako between rival groups of soldiers. The leaders of a coup which overthrew President Amadou Toumani Toure in March say they have fought off an attempted takeover. They say the main barracks of the presidential guard has been overrun and the troops there have fled.