Kabul, Aug 9, 2006 - US-led soldiers and warplanes killed 15 Taliban militants who attacked a coalition compound with rockets and rifles in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, the coalition said Wednesday.
Brussels, Aug 9, 2006 - EU competition regulators are taking a look into the commercial practices of Japanese electronics giants Sony and Toshiba in their battle over DVD formats, a European Commission spokeswoman said Wednesday.
Geneva, Aug 9, 2006 - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged half a billion dollars to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB and Malaria, the Fund announced on Wednesday.
Juba, Sudan, Aug 9, 2006 - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels on Wednesday stormed out of peace talks with the government demanding that the latter declare a ceasefire to help efforts to end their two-decade civil war, apparently putting the peace efforts in jeopardy, officials said.
Sidon, Lebanon, Aug 9, 2006 - An Israeli warship shelled the Palestinian refugee camp of Ain el-Helweh in south Lebanon Wednesday, killing two people and wounding 16, including seven children, police said.
Brussels, Aug 9, 2006 - France, Italy and Portugal answered a Spanish appeal Wednesday for help from its EU partners to put out blazes ravaging its western Galicia region, the European Commission said.
Gaza City, Aug 9, 2006 - Two Palestinians were killed and five others wounded Wednesday in an Israeli air strike on a site used as a training camp by armed groups, witnesses and medical sources said.
Kinshasa, Aug 9, 2006 - The Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday denied a British press report that it sold uranium to Iran.
Dire Dawa, Ethiopia, Aug 9, 2006 - Rescue workers have recovered at least 22 bodies in their search for hundreds of people missing from weekend flash floods that devastated an Ethiopian town, officials said Wednesday.
Kathmandu, Aug 9, 2006 - Maoist rebels and the Nepal government said Wednesday they had settled a dispute over monitoring each other's fighters and weapons, a move which revives their peace process and power-sharing plans.
Marsabit, Kenya, Aug 9, 2006 - At least six people have drowned and hundreds displaced after flash floods swept through villages in northern Kenya in the last three days, officials said on Wednesday.
London, Aug 9, 2006 - Britain will participate in the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, the Foreign Office said Wednesday.
Ottawa, Aug 9, 2006 - UN special envoy for AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis, on Wednesday called for rich nations to cancel the debts of the world's poorest countries to help fight against AIDS and HIV infections.
Tirana, Aug 9, 2006 - Several earthquakes measuring up to 4.7 on the Richter scale have hit Albania in the past few days, the country's main seismologist center in the capital Tirana said Wednesday.
Juba, Sudan, Aug 9, 2006 - Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army rebels on Wednesday stormed out of peace talks and demanded that the government joins it in declaring a ceasefire, threatening fragile peace efforts, officials said.
Madrid, Aug 9, 2006 - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero broke off his holiday Wednesday to see for himself the devastation caused by more than 100 forest fires in the northwest of the country, as police investigated claims that arsonists are responsible.
