MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia accused Georgia of sending warplanes into a Georgia’s separatist region of South Ossetia overnight, an allegation swiftly denied by Tbilisi.

GILGIT, Pakistan (Reuters) – A landslide triggered by torrential rain killed seven people and soldiers were searching for eight others buried under the rubble of their homes in a mountain village in northern Pakistan, police said on Wednesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) – A German-Afghan citizen has gone missing in Kabul and German officials believe he has been kidnapped, the Foreign Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday.

QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) – A bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded in a town in Pakistan’s insurgency racked province of Baluchistan on Wednesday, killing four people, police said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) – Pakistan’s 4-month-old civilian government has suspended a decree issued last month to put the military’s powerful and controversial spy agency under Interior Ministry control, according to an official statement.

MINGORA, Pakistan (Reuters) – Three Islamist militants were killed by their own explosives while planting a bomb at a girls’ school in Pakistan’s northwestern Swat valley on Wednesday, police said.

DUBAI (Reuters) – Al Qaeda’s North Africa wing said it was behind a deadly suicide bombing in Algeria on Sunday, according to a statement posted on the Internet on Wednesday.

BAQUBA, Iraq (Reuters) – In a video sold in Baghdad’s souks, a group of women draped in cartridge belts and clutching pistols and rifles explained why they had taken up arms against the U.S. military in Iraq.

TEHRAN (FNA) – The National Iranian Oil Company is to propose 15 project packs to the global market for investment.

TEHRAN (FNA) – Good relations between Iran and Azerbaijan have been conducive to the development of partnership and cooperation between the two sides’ border officials, the chief of the State Border Service of the Azerbaijan Republic said.