KABUL (AFP) — Six NATO and two Afghan troops were killed in northeast Afghanistan after being ambushed by insurgents who inflicted one of their deadliest tolls for years, military officials said Saturday.

KABUL, Afghanistan – Six U.S. troops were killed when insurgents ambushed their foot patrol in the high mountains of eastern Afghanistan, officials said Saturday. The attack, the most lethal against American forces this year, made 2007 the deadliest for U.S. troops in Afghanistan since the 2001 invasion.

Substitute Friday prayers leader of Tehran Ayatollah Mohammad Emami Kashani said on Friday that production of nuclear bomb is religiously forbidden.

Georgia’s opposition accused a police colonel on Monday of poisoning anti-government demonstrators with adulterated wine but officials said the protesters were simply drunk.

Georgia’s president has declared a state of emergency over the entire country for 15 days in the wake of opposition protests against his rule. Mikhail Saakashvili also banned all news broadcasts except state-run television on Wednesday and expelled three Russian diplomats, accusing Moscow of fomenting unrest.

About 50,000 Iraqi refugees face an uncertain future in Lebanon which have no right of asylum, a UN commissioner for

Pakistan will hold elections in February and lift the state of emergency imposed by President Pervez Musharraf very soon, say officials.

Turkey’s leading pro-Kurdish party called on the government on Thursday to grant autonomy to the mainly Kurdish southeast as a solution to the violence that has plagued the

According to occupation sources, a group of Mujahideen have attacked patrol unit of Chechen murtads (apostated, national traitors) in Chechen capital Jokhar’s Yandarbiy (former Oktyabrsk) district.

Twenty-two Muslim Brotherhood members were arrested Thursday after clashing with police in a northern Nile Delta village, police officials said.The clash erupted in