22 killed ahead of Philippine village polls
Manila:At least 22 candidates and supporters have been killed in election-related violence over the past month ahead of this week's village polls across the Philippines, police said on Sunday, underscoring the violent downside of one of Asia's most rambunctious democracies.
Colombian rebels release US hostage
Colombia: Colombia's FARC rebels on Sunday freed an American they were holding since June, the governments of Cuba and Norway said.The statement by the Cuban and Norwegian embassies in Bogota said that rebels have turned over 26-year-old Kevin Scott Sutay to a commission made up of representatives from their countries and the International Committee of the Red Cross in the nation's south. Sutay was later delivered to U.S.government representatives at the airport in the Colombian capital.
13 dead in n-lebanon violence: security
Tripoli(lebanon):The death toll from a week of clashes
in lebanon between supporters and opponents of Syria's regime has risen to 13, a security official saidon Sunday.
police: bomb kills 18 Afghan civilians
Kabul: Police say a roadside bomb has killed 18 civilians
and wounded five as they rode a small bus home after attending a wedding in a lawless district of eastern Afghanistan's Ghazni province.Deputy provincial police chief Col. Asadullah
Ensafi said the blast occurred
on Sunday in the Andar district as the bus travelled from one village to another.