SEPANG, April 16 — Police have confirmed a minor explosion involving a car at a petrol station near the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) yesterday was not a criminal act or sabotage.

DAMASCUS, Feb 4 — A car bomb killed at least 20 people in the northern Syrian city of Manbij yesterday, the Syrian presidency said, marking the second attack there in three days and the country's deadliest since Bashar al-Assad was toppled from power in December.