Violent clashes between US-led forces and Taliban militants have left several people dead in the troubled southeastern Afghanistan.

Landslides have cut off large portions of Pakistan’s Swat Valley and hampered efforts to help the 15 million people affected by Pakistan’s worst flooding in decades.

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.