Twelve people killed in Aceh: At least 12 people, including a

Twelve people killed in Aceh: At least 12 people, including a soldier, were killed in the latest outbreak of violence in restive Aceh province from Wednesday to Thursday, official and humanitarian activists said. Seven male bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found lying on roadsides to the east of Sigli town, some 120 kilometers east of Banda Aceh, on Thursday morning, the coordinator for Coalition-Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) on Human Rights in Sigli, Muharizal Hasan, said. --JP

U.S. move prisoners to Cuba: The U.S. military will use unprecedented security, including chains and possibly sedation and hoods, as it flies al-Qaeda and Taliban prisoners from Afghanistan to a jail in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, defense officials said on Thursday. The initial transfer of dozens of hard-line, anti-western "detainees", among 371 already under U.S. control, to a jail at the U.S. Navy Base in Cuba will begin in groups of about 25 on Air Force military planes within days, officials told Reuters.

Nepal's bank freezes accounts linked to Maoists: Nepal's central bank, the Nepal Rastra Bank, has frozen the accounts of individuals and organizations linked to Maoist rebels, officials said Thursday. "To squeeze the financial source of the Maoist terrorists, the central bank has frozen the bank accounts of over a dozen individuals or some organizations in commercial banks, having links with the terrorists," the official said. --AFP