LONDON (Reuters) – A British soldier was killed in a firefight with Taliban militants in southern Afghanistan, Britain’s Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday. The soldier, from the 2nd Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, was on a routine patrol in Helmand province when his unit was attacked on Tuesday. He …

THE HAGUE (Reuters) – War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will appear before the U.N. war crimes tribunal in The Hague for the first time on Thursday, the court said, and will be asked to enter a plea to the charges against him.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – More than 25 Taliban militants and five Pakistani soldiers have been killed in a fierce clash in the troubled Swat valley in the northwest, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey’s highest court could decide as soon as Wednesday whether to ban the ruling AK Party for Islamist activities, Radikal and Sabah newspapers said.

SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) – Russia has started to withdraw soldiers it sent to repair railways in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia, a spokesman for the troops said on Wednesday.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) – Militants shot and killed an Afghan woman accused of being a U.S. spy in Pakistan’s North Waziristan region, and dumped her body in a sewer, a witness and intelligence officials said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic has been extradited to The Hague to face charges of genocide at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia over his actions during the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

(Reuters) – Bosnian Serb wartime President Radovan Karadzic was transferred on Wednesday to the custody of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) in The Hague to face charges of planning and ordering genocide in the 1992-95 Bosnia war.

CANBERRA (Reuters) – Australia will offer military advisers to Pakistan to train security forces to fight Taliban and al Qaeda militants taking sanctuary there from neighboring Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday.

(Reuters) – War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic arrived in the Netherlands on Wednesday to face trial at The Hague on charges of genocide for his actions in the 1992-95 Bosnia war. Karadzic spent 11 years on the run before his arrest in Serbia.