The German military says at least four of its soldiers, under the US command, have been killed in fierce clashes with Taliban militants in northern Afghanistan.

At least 73 civilians were killed when an army jet bombed a remote village in Pakistan’s tribal region of Khyber, a local official has told the BBC .He said the incident took place on Saturday but news was slow in being reported because of the inaccessibility of the region

Another strike by a US drone aircraft has killed at least 13 civilians and injured several others in Pakistan’s tribal region.

At least four civilians were killed and 18 others wounded when Nato forces fired at a bus in southern Kandahar province, sparking angry protests.Nato expressed its “deep regret” over the incident and said forces treated the injured at the scene.

Khartoum (Agencies) Sudanese were voting on Sunday in the country’s first multi-party elections since 1986, but the polls have been marred by an opposition boycott and accusations of fraud.

Another foreign soldier has been killed in Southern Afghanistan, bringing to 147 the number of US-led forces killed in the country this year.

Reports say at least 25 Afghan civilians have been killed in a NATO airstrike on a compound in Nahr-e-Saraj, a district in Helmand province.

The Sudan People’s Liberation Movement has said that it will partially boycott elections set for Sunday.

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai threatened over the weekend to quit the political process and join the Taliban if he continued to come under outside pressure to reform, according to several members of parliament.

Peshawar, PAKISTAN (Agencies) Militants using a car bomb and firing weapons attacked the U.S. consulate in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Monday hours after a suicide bomber killed 43 people elsewhere in the northwest, officials said.