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In Iraq, a double-blast suicide bomber targeting a military checkpoint and labourers killed eight people in Fallujah.
Iraqi police and medics said twenty-eight other civilians were wounded in the blasts, which occurred within minutes of each other in the centre of Fallujah, 50 kilometres West of Baghdad.A police station chief said the bomber parked his explosives-packed vehicle near a military checkpoint in the centre of the city. The assailant then walked into a group of labourers and detonated his explosives vest. The car bomb exploded shortly afterwards, again without causing any military casualties.
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In India, at least 26 people including students were killed when a bus in which they were travelling fell into a river in the northwestern state of Rajasthan.
Reports say the accident happened this morning when a bus carrying students of a teacher's training college rammed into a stationary vehicle on a bridge and then fell off into the dry bed of the morel river in the Sawai Madhopur district.
There were about 62 people in the bus, mostly students. 34 injured passengers have been admitted to hospital.
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Nicolas Sarkozy's centre-right UMP Party appears to be heading for defeat in French regional elections.
Initial results suggest the opposition socialist party has taken a strong lead in the first round of voting. The outcome will be a major blow for Mr Sarkozy in the last nationwide poll before presidential and parliamentary elections due in 2012. Sunday's election took place with President Sarkozy's popularity rating at an all-time low and unemployment at 10%. The French leader had sought to play down the importance of the vote, insisting it was only about regional issues. Near complete results suggested the socialists were likely to emerge as the largest single party, and that the centre-left and greens would get more than half the vote.
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Afghan security forces shot dead five men wearing suicide vests and armed with guns as they tried to storm government buildings and a bazaar in eastern Afghanistan.
The Afghan interior ministry said the attack in the town of Barmal in Paktika appeared to be a similarly coordinated attempt to Saturday’s Kandahar attack that killed 35 people.
The ministry said three of today’s bombers were shot dead after they were identified and two others briefly exchanged fire with police before they were killed.
Meanwhile, the UN secretary general's new special envoy for Afghanistan, Staffan de Mistura, arrived in Kabul.
De Mistura, an Italian-Swedish diplomat who recently served as the top U.N. Envoy to Iraq, is tasked with leading the world body's efforts in Afghanistan. He takes over from Kai Eide of Norway, the outgoing special representative for the UN Secretary General in Afghanistan.
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In Occupied Kashmir, Veteran Kashmiri Hurriyet Leader, Syed Ali Gilani has said the matchless sacrifices of the Kashmiri people have centre-staged the Kashmir dispute at the international level.
According to Kashmir media service, Syed Ali Gilani addressing public gatherings at Nishat in Srinagar and in Magam Pattan said that India has not been able to suppress the Kashmiris’ genuine struggle for right to self-determination despite exhausting all its resources. He appealed to the people to frustrate the nefarious designs of the Indian intelligence agencies, to divide the people of the occupied territory on communal lines. Senior APHC leader, Agha Syed Hassan Al-Moosvi in a statement issued in Srinagar urged India to give up its intransigence and take steps to resolve the Kashmir dispute through negotiations. APHC leader, Ghulam Ahmed Mir in a statement in Jammu strongly denounced the illegal detention of Hurriyet Leaders and activists including Shabbir Ahmed Shah, Nayeem Ahmed Khan and Muhammad Ashraf Sehrai. An Indian trooper committed suicide by shooting himself with his service weapon at Mughal Maidan in Kishtwar. This raised the number of such deaths amongst the troops to 170 since January 2007. One trooper of Indian central reserve police force was killed and five others were injured in an attack in Srinagar while two pedestrians received injuries in an explosion in Sopore.
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