Briefly World

Afghans protest NATO raid,12 die

KABUL: Hundreds of protesters,angered by an overnight NATO raid they believed had killed four civilians,clashed Wednesday with security forces in a northern city. Twelve people died in fighting in city of Taloqan,officials said. Meanwhile,a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into a bus carrying police cadets in Nangarhar province,killing 13.

Cars burnt in N Ireland as queen visits South

BELFAST: Three vehicles were destroyed in Londonderry in a wave of arson attacks in Northern Ireland coinciding with the historic visit to Dublin by Queen Elizabeth. The Queens journey took her Wednesday to Croke Park site of a massacre where British troops killed 14 Irish civilians in 1920.

Director at Cannes makes Hitler quip

CANNES: Danish director Lars von Trier shook things up here by saying he sympathises with Adolf Hitler,thinks Israel is a pain and plans to make a porn flick with actor Kirsten Dunst. Von Triers remarks stirred up reporters after his apocalyptic drama Melancholia was screened. I wanted to be a Jew,and then found out that I was really a Nazi 8230;you know,my family was German, he said.