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Ethnic Albanians welcome Bill Clinton in Pristina, Kosovo's capital.
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IRAQ
Bicycle bomb, other attacks kill 10, injure dozens more
A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq on Sunday, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said. The bloodshed comes as Iraqi lawmakers intensify negotiations over a new election law that many hope will hasten the end of political gridlock over control of oil-rich Kirkuk.
Iraqi police Maj. Muthana Khalid said a booby-trapped bicycle exploded at a popular fruit and vegetable market near Hillah, the capital of Iraq's Babil province, 60 miles south of Baghdad. Thirty-seven people were wounded in the attack, he said.
In the western city of Ramadi, two people -- including a policeman -- were killed when twin car bombs exploded minutes apart in the visitors' parking lot of the city's Traffic Police Directorate. Three people were killed when a bomb that was detonated remotely exploded on a bus as the vehicle approached a police checkpoint in the southern holy city of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, officials said.
-- Associated Press
PAKISTAN
Security forces kill at least 7 militants
Security forces fighting their way through the mountainous Taliban stronghold of Kaniguram killed at least seven militants and injured several, officials said. Meanwhile, Pakistan's foreign minister said the offensive in South Waziristan should end sooner than expected.
As part of the government's ramping up of its fight against the militants, it will offer bounties of up to 50 million rupees ($600,000) for each of the top three Taliban leaders, according to an official advertisement to be published Monday in Pakistani newspapers and obtained by the Associated Press.
But the recent successes of the campaign in South Waziristan -- and the optimism of Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi that it would soon achieve its objectives -- were offset by a string of anti-government attacks in other tribal regions. Militants on Saturday kidnapped and killed Jahangir Khan, a prominent pro-government activist, and blew up a girls' school in the Khyber tribal region.
-- Associated Press
