Five more US-led troops have been killed in southern Afghanistan as the foreign death toll in the war-torn country nears two thousand.

Torrential rains in flood-hit Pakistan have hampered aid efforts and are threatening to deepen a crisis affecting 14 million people across the country.

Medical personnel at Medina Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, attend a child wounded by a mortar shell Monday, July 19, 2010.

Authorities in Pakistan have evacuated at least 500,000 people from at-risk areas in the south as the worst floods in living memory threatened the country’s farming heartland.

At least 31 people have been killed in the Pakistani city of Karachi after clashes broke out following the killing of a local politician, local media has reported.

A curfew has been enforced in Indian-administered Kashmir following clashes between residents and security forces that left nine people dead.Five people died on Sunday after security forces opened fire on pro-independence protesters while another four were killed after a crowd attacked a police station.

ZAHEDAN: The Iran government has banned on abroad travels of the leader of Sunni community of Iran and the head of Darululoom Zahedan University Shaikh Abdul Hameed.

Rescue workers in Pakistan are attempting to reach thousands of people stranded by the worst floods in the country’s history, as the death toll rose to more than 430.

The Taliban claim that US-led forces in Afghanistan created the explosion against a civilian bus to blame the group for the killing of innocent people of the country.

Remarks by David Cameron, the British prime minister, that Islamabad should not “promote the export of terror” have angered Pakistani officials.Cameron made the comments on Wednesday during a visit to promote increased trade with India, which has tense relations with neighbouring Pakistan.