Chechen mujahideen under Commander Zaurbek Avdorkhanov ambushed a Russian convoy with three army-trucks in the District of Nozhay-Yurt in Southern Chechnya´s mountains.The trucks were full with Russian soldiers. As a result of the fierce attack 9 Russian soldiers were killed and 11 more wounded. On the Chechen side 2 fighters …

At least one man was dead and 50 people were missing after a boat with 200 aboard sank in the Bay of Bengal, police said on Sunday.

Pakistani troops, backed by helicopter gunships and artillery, have begun a ground offensive against pro-Taliban militants in a troubled northwestern valley, killing at least 30 of them, the military said on Sunday.