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title: "US judge postpones Lockerbie bombing trial citing new evidence"
description: "Most outlets reported the postponement of the Lockerbie bombing trial by a US federal judge, noting the judge's decision came days before the trial was set to begin. Arab News Pakistan led with the postponement and the judge’s action, while 24 News HD framed the delay as a response to new evidence. Both excerpts mention the accused as a Libyan man and the 1988 incident that killed 270 people, but no other specific details or angles are attributed to individual outlets."
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# US judge postpones Lockerbie bombing trial citing new evidence

entertainment · latest filing 25 Aug 2026, 3:16 PM PKT · 25 Aug 2026 · 2 articles from 2 outlets

**HarZaviya summary** — how 2 outlets covered this, generated automatically from their headlines and excerpts:

> Most outlets reported the postponement of the Lockerbie bombing trial by a US federal judge, noting the judge's decision came days before the trial was set to begin. Arab News Pakistan led with the postponement and the judge’s action, while 24 News HD framed the delay as a response to new evidence. Both excerpts mention the accused as a Libyan man and the 1988 incident that killed 270 people, but no other specific details or angles are attributed to individual outlets.

## Same story from 2 outlets

Each outlet's own headline, most recent first — read any at its source.

- **24 News HD** — [US delays Lockerbie bombing trial over new evidence](https://www.24newshd.tv/25-Aug-2026/us-delays-lockerbie-bombing-trial-new-evidence) · 25 Aug 2026, 3:16 PM PKT
  > A US federal judge postponed on Monday the trial of a Libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a Pan Am flight over Scotland in 1988, killing 270 people, citing new evidence.
- **Arab News Pakistan** — [Lockerbie bombing trial postponed by US judge days before start](https://www.arabnews.pk/node/2655772/world) · 25 Aug 2026, 10:08 AM PKT · 84% identical wording to the newest filing
  > WASHINGTON: A federal judge on Monday postponed the trial of the man authorities allege built the bomb that blew New York-bound Pan Am flight 103 out ​of the sky over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people in 1988. Jury selection had been scheduled to begin on Wednesday in the trial of Abu Agila Mohammad Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, a Libyan intelligence operative who prosecutors allege once confes...

2 articles from 2 outlets, 25 Aug 2026. Headlines and links belong to their outlets — HarZaviya links out and never copies article text.

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