At least two soldiers were killed and three others wounded by a suicide blast in Pakistan-administered Kashmir. Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud claimed responsibility.
Defying a ban on protests, Mir Hossein Mousavi said threats would not stop him from pursuing his campaign to scrap the election results—as police carried out sweeps of opposition figures.
The largest mosque on the Indonesian island of Java has been blocked by local residents who fear the militant group Jemaah Islamiyah has been organizing and recruiting there.
An ambush on a convoy of Indonesia’s elite Mobile Brigade (Brimob) left one officer dead in restive West Papua following a wave of Brimob sweeps in which several villagers were killed.
Ex-Kosova prime minister Agim Ceku was reportedly released two days after he was arrested in Bulgaria on an international war crimes warrant—although he is being asked not to leave Bulgaria.
In response to Hugo Chávez’s expressions of support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Venezuela’s Revolutionary Marxist Current issued a statement in “solidarity with the Iranian masses.”
New bloody street clashes took place outside the parliament building in Tehran, amid reports that Zahra Rahnavard—wife of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi—has been arrested.
Diplomatic sources say Moscow brokered a long-sought deal granting the US continued access to Manas air base in Kyrgyzstan—apparently fearing Islamist militant incursions into Central Asia.
Militant cleric Sufi Mohammed, who brokered the failed Swat Valley peace deal, has been arrested and transferred to a “safehouse” in Peshawar, an unnamed official told Italy’s AKI news service.
A sharia court run by Somalia’s Shabab insurgents in Mogadishu sentenced four teenagers to each have a hand and a leg amputated as punishment for stealing cellphones.
A suicide bomber severely wounded Yunus Bek Yevkurov, president of Russia’s volatile southern republic of Ingushetia—an assassination attempt that undermines the Kremlin’s claim that it has brought stability to the restive North Caucasus. A car rigged with TNT exploded as… Read moreIngushetia: president wounded in suicide attack
Spanish police arrested three suspected ETA suspects in GuipĂşzcoa June 23. The Interior Ministry said the three formed an “armed commando” which was prepared to go into action immediately, but denied it was responsible for a June 19 car bomb… Read moreSpain: ETA cell busted?
