BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Two Americans working for the U.S. government were killed in a bomb blast at a council office in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City on Tuesday, an embassy spokeswoman said.

BERLIN (Reuters) – German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged a conference of international donors on Tuesday to provide funds to strengthen Palestinian police and legal institutions.

BERLIN (Reuters) – Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said on Tuesday that Germany planned to increase the number of troops it can send to Afghanistan by 1,000 later this year.