Two bombs have exploded in a busy central Baghdad square, killing six people and wounding about 20 others, police say.

Zagreb – Croatian police are bringing murder and conspiracy charges against five suspects in the high-profile killing last week of a newspaper editor and his murder chief.

RAMALLAH, Nov. 1 – Palestinian National Authority (PNA) forces launched a limited crackdown against Islamic Jihad supporters in northern West Bank, arresting its four activists, sources from the movement said.

GAZA, Nov. 1 – The Islamic Hamas movement on Saturday warned against Israel’s intention to retrieve its captive soldier by force.

GAZA, Nov. 1 – A Hamas advisor on Saturday accused rival Fatah movement of not being interested in Egypt’s efforts to broker a national reconciliation between the two movements.

BRUSSELS, Oct. 31 – The European Union condemned on Friday “in the strongest possible terms the acts of violence and brutality committed against Palestinian civilians by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.”

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and Libya are negotiating a deal under which Moscow would build nuclear research reactors for the North African state and supply fuel, officials said on Saturday.

TBILISI (Reuters) – Georgia’s parliament endorsed career diplomat Grigol Mgaloblishvili as prime minister on Saturday in a step billed by President Mikheil Saakashvili as the start of a reform drive.

ASADABAD, Afghanistan (Reuters) – U.S.-led coalition forces killed 25 militants, including a woman fighter, in separate raids aimed at a suspected al Qaeda commander and Taliban in Afghanistan, the U.S. military said Saturday.

QUETTA (Reuters) – Relief efforts in a Pakistani valley hit by a powerful earthquake this week are turning to preparing thousands of homeless for a freezing winter, officials said on Saturday, as aftershocks jolted survivors.