KABUL (Reuters) – Abdul Wahid was asleep in England when he received a panicked phone call. “Buy a plane ticket and hurry to Kabul!” his brother’s voice said.

GAZA (Reuters) – Bomb blasts rocked a cafe and a Hamas politician’s home in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing at least one Palestinian in one of the biggest flare-ups in internal violence since Islamists seized the enclave a year ago.

ROME (Reuters) – Italy on Thursday returned 13 ancient Iraqi artifacts that had been smuggled out of the country after the U.S.-led invasion.