Eurasia Press & News

KABUL (Reuters) – A roadside bomb killed four soldiers from the U.S.-led coalition force and an Afghan national in eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

CANBERRA (Reuters) – France on Wednesday asked its European allies to relax restrictions on troop deployment and operations in Afghanistan just a month after losing 10 soldiers in a Taliban ambush.

KARACHI (Reuters) -The Pakistani rupee weakened on Wednesday due to import payments, weak economic fundamentals and concern over tension with the United States over U.S. military attacks on militants in Pakistan.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Members of Israel’s ruling party began voting on Wednesday for a new leader to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has promised to resign following a corruption investigation in which he faces indictment.

A double car bomb attack on the US embassy in Yemen has killed at least 16 people, Yemeni officials say.

A double bombing in a west Baghdad business district has killed at least eight people and wounded another 20, Iraqi police say.

Three US soldiers have been charged with murder over the deaths of four Iraqis in Baghdad, the US army says.

A gunfight between rival Christian political groups in northern Lebanon has left two people dead and three wounded, security officials say.

Rescue workers have ended a search for survivors in a Cairo slum where 10 days earlier a landslide buried dozens of homes, killing at least 90 people.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Caucasus does not need NATO interference in the region in the wake of the recent conflict in Georgia.