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A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying Pakistani security personnel in the restive Khyber tribal region on Wednesday...

Suicide bomber kills 13 in Pakistan

Peshawar: A suicide bomber struck a vehicle carrying Pakistani security personnel in the restive Khyber tribal region on Wednesday,killing 13 people,including nine security personnel,and injuring eight others. The bomber,who was on foot,was hiding in a roadside market in Jamrud sub-division of Khyber Agency.

Hakimullahs aide Qari may be dead

PESHAWAR: Slain Tehrik-e-Taliban chief Hakimullah Mehsuds close aide Qari Hussain,one of his potential successors and trainer of suicide bombers,may have also died in the same US drone attack that killed the top militant commander,Interior Minister Rehman Malik said on Wednesday.

Britain discloses data on terror prisoner

LONDON: Britains government on Wednesday disclosed once-secret information on the treatment of a former Guantanamo Bay detainee who says he was tortured in US custody,losing a long court battle to keep the material classified. The paragraphs say Mohamed was subjected to cruel,inhuman and degrading treatment by the United States authorities,including sleep deprivation,shackling and threats resulting in mental stress and suffering.

Iraqi journalist freed after 17 months

Baghdad: The US military in Iraq on Wednesday freed an Iraqi freelance journalist working for the Thomson Reuters media group after holding him for 17 months without charge,the company said. How can I describe my feelings? This is like being born again, Reuters quoted 33-year-old Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed as saying,adding that he was greeted emotionally by his family.

Israeli planes flying into Lebanon skies

LONDON: Israeli aircraft are making daily incursions into Lebanese air space,creating a very dangerous situation,Lebanons Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri said in an interview broadcast on Wednesday. We hear a lot of Israeli threats day in and day out,and not only threats, Hariri told the BBC. We see whats happening on the ground and in our air space and what8217;s happening all the time during the past two months every day we have Israeli war planes entering Lebanese air space, he said.

Accept defeat: Yanukovych to PM

Moscow: Political instability loomed large over Ukraine as pro-West Premier Yulia Tymoshenko refused to conceded defeat even after a preliminary presidential poll count on Wednesday showed her being narrowly defeated by the pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych,who won the presidential polls with slim margin on Wednesday asked his rival,Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat and quit her job,even as the firebrand leader of the 2004 west-sponsored Orange Revolution has demanded recount of votes.