In brief: Remains may be casualty of war

HANOI, Vietnam – U.S. officials have sent what are believed to be the remains of an American serviceman killed during the Vietnam War to the United States for identification.

Spokesman Ron Ward of the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command detachment in Hanoi said today that the remains were recovered in the past month in southern Binh Phuoc province near the Cambodian border. They are believed to be those of a serviceman killed in a plane crash.

A repatriation ceremony took place Monday at Danang International Airport.

According to the U.S. office, since the war ended in 1975, 684 sets of remains have been repatriated from Vietnam. Another 1,678 U.S. servicemen are still unaccounted for throughout Southeast Asia, 1,287 of those in Vietnam.

Gadhafi’s son to face trial in Libya

TRIPOLI, Libya – Moammar Gadhafi’s son and former heir apparent Seif al-Islam will be put on trial inside Libya and there will be a verdict before mid-June, a Libyan official said Monday.

The decision comes despite appeals by rights groups to Libyan authorities to hand him over to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for trial, amid fears that he may not get a fair trial in Libya.

Seif al-Islam had been held until now by his captors, ex-rebels from the town of Zintan, one of dozens of militias across the country operating outside government control. For months, the Zintan militia refused to give him up to Tripoli’s officials.

Seven policemen injured in blast

MANAMA, Bahrain – An explosion injured at least seven Bahraini policemen Monday in an area hit by frequent clashes between security forces and anti-government protesters in the Gulf kingdom, officials said.

The country’s Interior Ministry said the explosion occurred in Ekar, a mostly rural area south of the capital Manama. At least three of the policemen received critical injuries, it said.

Nearly 50 people have died in Bahrain’s unrest since February 2011.