TEHRAN, Iran – A website supporting Iran’s reform movement says assailants have attacked the home of an opposition leader and wounded one of his bodyguards.
The report says Mahdi Karroubi’s guards had to fire in the air after the crowd broke down the door of the home on Thursday night after days of gatherings outside.
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LONDON – Prime Minister David Cameron took a few minutes out of his paternity leave to introduce his new daughter to Britain’s media.
Florence Rose Endellion Cameron was cradled in the arms of her mother, Samantha, for her first public appearance on Friday on the step of 10 Downing Street.
The little girl was born [...]

LOME, Togo – Togo’s opposition leader claims police tried to stop him from leading protesters through a police blockade in their attempt to protest the alleged rigging of this year’s presidential election.
Jean-Pierre Fabre says he and his supporters arrived at a church Wednesday where they planned to hold a prayer service and found the [...]

KABUL (Reuters) – Afghan President Hamid Karzai strongly condemned an air strike by NATO-led forces which he said killed 10 campaign workers for this month's election, a sour note as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates arrived for talks.
Civilian casualties caused by foreign forces while hunting militants have been a major source of tension between [...]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors have charged the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, Hakimullah Mehsud, in the plot that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December, the Justice Department said on Wednesday.
Mehsud, believed to be hiding in the tribal areas of Pakistan and head of the group known as [...]

BRUSSELS – Poland’s president says the rising cost of the war in Afghanistan is hampering a program to modernize the military.
Nonetheless, Bronislaw Komorowski says Poland remains committed to the NATO-led war effort.
Speaking after a meeting with the NATO secretary-general Wednesday, Komorowski said other NATO countries’ defense budgets also were strained because of the [...]

ROME (AFP) – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam.
Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to 500 young women hired and paid by an agency to [...]

ROME (AFP) – Libyan leader Moamer Kadhafi's visit to Rome to mark the second anniversary of a friendship treaty with former coloniser Italy stumbled into controversy Monday after he said Europe should convert to Islam.
Kadhafi made the comments on Sunday during a lecture to a group of 500 young women hired and paid by [...]

CHANGCHUN, China – North Korean leader Kim Jong Il left China’s northeastern city of Harbin on Monday in the latest leg of a secretive trip believed aimed at drumming up support for a succession plan involving his youngest son, news reports said.
Reporters have followed a 35-vehicle motorcade — apparently used by the reclusive Kim [...]

CHANGCHUN, China – North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il apparently headed home after a secretive and surprise trip that reportedly included a meeting with China’s top leader to appeal for diplomatic and financial support for a succession plan involving his youngest son.
Reporters have followed a motorcade — apparently used by the reclusive Kim — [...]