ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – A suicide bomber killed himself and three other people in Pakistan on Thursday in an attack aimed at a prominent ethnic Pashtun politician, police said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Piracy in the Gulf of Aden has cost shippers between $18-30 million so far this year in ransoms and is threatening global business, British think-tank Chatham House said on Thursday.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is in St Petersburg in Russia, helping to mend ties between the two countries.