WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s last communist leader, General Wojciech Jaruzelski, told a court on Thursday his decision in 1981 to declare martial law was a necessary “evil” that averted disaster and prepared the way for democracy.

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.