Croatian authorities withheld for one year information that may have led to an earlier arrest of a fugitive general, now standing trial before a United Nations war crimes court, a newspaper reports. In April 2004, the state’s attorney’s office, the police and secret services all had information that then-fugitive general, …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – War is “no solution” to stop Pakistan-based militants from launching anti-India attacks, India said on Thursday, while Pakistan vowed to act against militants added to a U.N. terrorist list after the Mumbai attacks.

KIRKUK, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed at least 46 people and wounded around 100 on Thursday in a crowded restaurant near Iraq’s ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, shattering the calm during a major Muslim holiday, police said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Thursday Pakistan would comply with the U.N. Security Council decision of listing four leaders of an outlawed militant group blamed by India and the U.S. for the Mumbai attacks.

MADRID (Reuters) – Youths in the Spanish cities of Madrid and Barcelona attacked a police station and a bank on Wednesday night following protests over the shooting by Greek police of a teenager in Athens, Spanish police said on Thursday.

ATHENS (Reuters) – Greek high school students attacked police stations around Athens with stones and firebombs on Thursday, injuring one bystander, in a sixth day of rioting sparked by the shooting of a teenager, police said. “An elderly bystander was taken to hospital after he was hit by a rock,” …

NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India wants Pakistan to hand over 40 people it believes are behind militant attacks and other crimes, India’s foreign minister said on Thursday, but ruled out military action against its neighbor as a solution. “We have given them lists of 40 persons not one, not 20 …

New tactics are emerging in protests over the shooting of a teenager in Greece. In what students say is organised action, a group of about 100 young people surrounded the office of the Mayor of Athens. Elsewhere, demonstrators gathered outside the main prison in the capital and a college building.

Demonstrations against the response of the Greek police have spread well outside the country’s border. In Italy, police blocked off roads around the Greek embassy as protestors tried to gather. The Greek police have been violent and cowardly said demonstrators from the Italian communists and some anarchist parties.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Gazprom Neft, Russia’s fifth largest crude oil producer company and the oil arm of gas export monopoly Gazprom, has voiced interest in developing oil fields in southern Iran. Displaying an interest to win the Iranians’ consent on its wholesale participation in developing the fields, Boris Zilbermints, Deputy General …