Rival Lebanese leaders say they can agree on a new president in a step seen as vital to defusing a deep political crisis but “everything could still go wrong”, Italy’s foreign minister said on Saturday.

Two Canadian soldiers with the international force in Afghanistan were killed with their interpreter when their armored vehicle hit a homemade bomb on Saturday, the Canadian army said.Here are the figures for foreign military deaths in Afghanistan since the Taliban government was toppled in 2001:

Iraq urged Turkey on Saturday to give it time to implement measures aimed at restricting the movements of Kurdish separatist rebels, a day after Iraq’s president said a Turkish incursion was now “almost inevitable”.