The chief negotiator for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Monday he would hold no more talks with his Israeli counterpart after a meeting on Saturday failed to make progress on a joint policy document.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court dismissed on Monday five of the six petitions challenging President Pervez Musharraf’s re-election victory on October 6, the government’s top lawyer said.

A suicide bomber targeting an Afghan provincial governor killed six police bodyguards and the governor’s son on Monday, the provincial police chief said.