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.

The Palestinian prime minister and the Israeli defence minister will announce a number of economic projects that could create tens of thousands of jobs for Palestinians and give a sense of progress on the ground, international Mideast envoy Tony Blair said Sunday. Among the projects will be a Turkish-sponsored industrial …