23 killed in Pak blast At least 23 people were killed and 40 others injured today when a suicide bomber struck at a meeting of tribal elders discussing ways to counter Taliban activities in Pakistan's troubled northwest, the latest in a series of terror attacks that have rocked the country.
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'Summon Mush to Parliament' Pakistani lawmakers on Friday demanded that former president Pervez Musharraf be summoned to depose before a joint sitting of the two houses of Parliament to explain the "rules of engagement" agreed upon with the US in the "war on terror" into which Pakistan entered during his regime.
N Korea, US near N-deal The United States and North Korea are near a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear deal, news reports said on Friday, while Japan said it could accept rewarding the North by taking it off a US terrorism blacklist.
Ahtisaari wins Nobel Peace Prize Finland's former president Martti Ahtisaari won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for a decade-long career of peacemaking around the globe from Namibia to Kosovo.
Setback for Serbia: Montenegro recognises Kosovo Serbia's former ally Montenegro has become the latest country to recognise Kosovo, as the European Union urged Pristina to deepen reforms while it awaited an international court's ruling on its secession from Belgrade.
Children run past statues of 1950-53 Korean war soldiers at a war museum in Seoul on Friday. The US and North Korea are near a compromise to save a crumbling nuclear deal. Reuters
