VILNIUS, Oct 4, 2007 (AFP) - The Scandinavian airline SAS has offered compensation to passengers whose plane crash-landed in Lithuania in September due to a landing gear fault, a report said here Thursday.

SAS has written to all 48 passengers, offering them 2,000 euros (2,800 dollars) and two free tickets, the daily Lietuvos Rytas said.

Remigijus Kirstukas, a Lithuanian mayor who was on the ill-fated aircraft, told the newspaper that SAS had also agreed to cover medical expenses related to the accident.

BANGKOK, Sept 19, 2007 (AFP) - Relatives of each of the 89 people who died when a Thai passenger jet crashed in Phuket will receive at least 130,000 dollars in compensation, the transport ministry said Wednesday.

One-Two-Go, operators of the jet which crashed in bad weather Sunday, has insurance worth 300 million dollars with Lloyd's of London, the airline and the transport ministry said.

SEOUL, Aug 21, 2007 (AFP) - A court here Tuesday ordered the South Korean government to pay almost 26 million dollars' compensation to families of eight pro-democracy activists executed on fabricated treason charges three decades ago.

The bereaved families will receive a total 24.5 billion won (25.6 million dollars), court officials said, with each receiving up to 3.3 billion won.

'We welcome the court's verdict in the name of the bereaved families and history,' the plaintiffs said in a statement.

RABAT, Aug 3, 2007 (AFP) - Morocco has finished paying out more than 140 million euros in compensation to victims of human rights abuses under the iron-fisted rule of former king Hassan II, an official said Friday.

'We announce that we have practically completed the individual compensation process for victims and those entitled,' said Ahmed Herzenni, president of the Moroccan Consultative Council on Human Rights.

A total of 23,676 people receieved compensation of about 1.56 billion dirhams (140 million euros, 193 million dollars), in a process that began in the 1990s.

SYDNEY, Aug 1, 2007 (AFP) - An Aborigine removed from his family as a baby in 1958 has won compensation in a landmark court case over Australia's 'stolen generation' scandal, the national broadcaster reported Wednesday.

Bruce Trevorrow was awarded damages of 525,000 dollars (448,717 US dollars) in the first such case to have succeeded, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation said.

On Christmas Day in 1957, 13-month-old Trevorrow was taken to hospital with stomach pains. When he recovered he was put into foster care without his parents knowing.

LAGOS, July 31, 2007 (AFP) - A Nigerian court in Lagos has ordered the country's electricity company to pay a woman 17.9 million naira (138,000 dollars) in damages for an accident, local media reported Tuesday.

Rebecca Elugbaju was awarded the cost over a 2002 accident which led to the amputation of her left leg.

Oyindamola Olomojobi, judge of a federal high court, said she found the electricity company, Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) guilty of negligence of 'its duties and operations.'

TRIPOLI, July 24, 2007 (AFP) - Libyan Foreign Minister Abdel Rahman Shalgham on Tuesday said that both the European Union and France had contributed to the compensation funds for the families of children infected with AIDS.

'Everyone has paid into the fund, including the European Union and France. They have covered the sum delivered so far and more on top,' Shalgham told a press conference.