World Highlights

¤ Pakistani tribesmen yesterday displayed parts of a US-marked missile they said hit a house and killed two boys, a possible explanation for a blast there which the government says killed a top al Qaeda commander. The death of Abu Hamza Rabia would be...

¤ Pakistani tribesmen yesterday displayed parts of a US-marked missile they said hit a house and killed two boys, a possible explanation for a blast there which the government says killed a top al Qaeda commander. The death of Abu Hamza Rabia would be a coup for Pakistan and the US which describe him as al Qaeda's chief of international operations.

¤ Kazakhs voted yesterday in an election almost certain to return President Nursultan Nazarbayev to power for another seven years, but the opposition said they saw signs of fraud.

¤ Six people including two militants were wounded in a clash involving Syrian security forces in the northern city of Aleppo yesterday.

¤ Police in Bangladesh have detained nearly 70 suspected Islamist militants overnight, police said yesterday, amid bickering between the government and opposition over the threat to democracy in the Muslim country.

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