Afghan official says Pakistan backing Taliban: An Afghan official
\naccused Pakistan on Monday of backing the re-emergence of the
\nfundamentalist Taliban militia, and of involvement in the murder
\nof two relatives of a provincial governor. A cousin and another
\nrelative of Kandahar Governor Gul Agha Sherzai were killed by
\nsuspected Taliban militants in the Pakistani border town of
\nChaman on Sunday, while his brother, Sharif Sherzai, was also
\ninjured. --Reuters<\/p>\n
Pakistan convicts four over U.S. consulate bombing: A Pakistan
\nanti-terrorism court convicted four men on Monday of organizing
\nlast year's suicide bomb attack on the U.S. consulate in the port
\ncity of Karachi, and handed death sentences to two of them. The
\nother two were sentenced to life in jail, while a fifth was
\nacquitted. Twelve Pakistanis were killed when suspected Islamic
\nmilitants packed a vehicle with explosives and rammed it into the
\nperimeter wall of the consulate on June 14. No foreigners or
\nconsulate staff were killed. -- Reuters<\/p>\n
EU mulls post-war role, urges U.S. to \"cool down\": EU foreign
\nministers met on Monday for the first time since the fall of
\nSaddam Hussein, seeking accord on how the divided bloc can come
\ntogether in a possible role in post-war Iraq. But as the
\nministers sought to mend rifts within the EU over Iraq,
\ncontinuing transatlantic tensions were underlined when EU foreign
\npolicy chief Javier Solana urged the U.S. to \"cool down\" its
\nwarnings to Syria. --AFP<\/p>\n
Ruling party takes early lead in Nigeria election: Nigeria's
\nruling party made a solid showing in legislative elections,
\naccording to partial returns on Monday. Yet more than two dozen
\npeople were killed during weekend balloting, seen as an important
\ntest for democracy in Africa's most populous nation. President
\nOlusegun Obasanjo's party won 69 seats in the House of
\nRepresentatives in returns released by Monday morning. Two main
\nopposition parties took 52. In the Senate, the ruling party took
\n22 seats compared to 10 for the opposition. In all, some 3,000
\ncandidates campaigned for 360 seats in the House of
\nRepresentatives and 109 in the Senate. --AP<\/p>\n
Saudi Arabia calls meeting of Iraq's neighbors: Saudi Arabia will
\nhost a meeting of Iraq's neighbors at foreign minister level on
\nFriday, the Saudi foreign minister said on Monday. Prince Saud
\nal-Faisal said the meeting would attempt to respond to \"the
\ncurrent circumstances in Iraq and their developments, which
\naffect the Iraqi people in particular, and have repercussions on
\nthe region as a whole.\" The prince was speaking to reporters at
\nRiyadh's airport after his return from a quick trip to Damascus,
\nwhere he held talks with Syrian President Bashar Assad. --AP<\/p>",
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