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INDIA
Blast in Indian Kashmir Kills at Least 10 Troops
A bomb exploded near an army convoy in Indian Kashmir on Saturday, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding 14 others, a police official said.
Hizbul Mujaheddin, Indian Kashmir's largest rebel group, asserted responsibility for the attack in a telephone call to a local news agency.
The Himalayan region of Kashmir is divided between India and Pakistan and is claimed by both.
BRITAIN
Militia Says Hostage Dies
A Shiite militia that claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of five Britons in Iraq more than a year ago said one of its hostages committed suicide, a British newspaper reported.
The Sunday Times of London published what it said was a statement in a video it obtained from the group through an intermediary in Iraq.
The video, available late Saturday on the Times Web site, shows an Arabic-language statement claiming that one of the hostages -- identified only as Jason -- killed himself May 25.
The newspaper said the statement blamed the British government for ignoring previous statements that the kidnappers and the captives have made. In the past, the militia has demanded that all British forces be withdrawn from Iraq and that Iraqis held by U.S.-led forces be freed.
CHINA
Police Kill 2 in Yunnan
Chinese police killed two people in a clash with local residents in Menglian county, a rubber-farming area in southwestern China's Yunnan province with a large ethnic minority population, the official New China News Agency said Saturday.
The police fired baton guns after they were attacked by about 400 residents, the agency said. Thirteen policemen and a resident were injured in the incident.
