BANGKOK – Thai and Cambodian soldiers fought with rockets, guns and tanks yesterday in a third day of clashes over disputed territory surrounding a 900-year-old Hindu temple, the area’s worst fighting in years.
– – – –
JUBA, Sudan – A mutiny by Sudanese troops refusing to leave the south ahead of its expected independence has spread through towns in an oil-producing state, with at least 50 people killed in the past four days, officials said.
– – – –
TEHRAN – Two Americans held in Iran for the last 18 months on suspicion of espionage pleaded not guilty in court on Sunday on the first day of their closed-door trial, state television reported.
– – – –
MUNICH – The president of Afghanistan said yesterday he would announce the start of a process to transfer responsibility for security to Afghan forces from international forces on March 21.
– – – –
MOSCOW – A manhunt is under way for two residents of Russia’s Muslim Ingushetia region who law enforcement officers believe coordinated the bombing of Moscow’s Domodedovo airport two weeks ago, Interfax reported yesterday.
– – – –
TUNIS – Tunisia’s interior minister has suspended all activities of the former ruling party to prevent a breakdown in security, an Interior Ministry source said yesterday.
– – – –
BAGHDAD – Hundreds of Iraqis took part in scattered demonstrations yesterday, calling for an improvement in basic services and the resignation of local government officials as unrest sweeps much of the Arab world.
– – – –
DHAKA – Angry investors took to the streets of the Bangladeshi capital yesterday after the stock exchange suffered another dramatic fall, the latest of a series of collapses that forced halts in trading several times last month.
– – – –
SEOUL – North and South Korean military officers will meet this week at a truce village on their heavily fortified border in a test of a pledge by the North to ease tension after a major security crisis last year.
