A parked car bomb in central Baghdad killed 10 people and wounded 66 on Friday, police said.

Israeli troops killed a member of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’s security force near the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah on Friday, Palestinian security sources and the army said.

Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday his party would boycott a January 8 general election because of the assassination of another opposition leader, Benazir Bhutto.