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ZIMBABWE Youngsters gather in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, to mark the 20th anniversary of the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child.
(Associated Press)
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AFGHANISTAN
At least 21 killed in separate attacks
A suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded at least 23 others Friday in a busy city square in western Afghanistan, while near Kabul a powerful former warlord narrowly escaped an assassination attempt, officials said.
The attacks came a day after President Hamid Karzai took the oath of office for a second term amid escalating violence across the country. Karzai said he has put national reconciliation with Taliban insurgents at the top of his agenda.
Lawmaker Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a former Northern Alliance leader who has been accused by Human Rights Watch of war crimes, was traveling in a convoy when a remote-controlled bomb beside the road exploded in the Paghman district north of the Afghan capital, police said. Five of Sayyaf's bodyguards were killed.
In the suicide attack earlier Friday in the western city of Farah, a bomber on a motorcycle blew himself up about 55 yards from the provincial governor's compound in a crowded square, Gov. Rohul Amin said. The dead included two children, he said.
Also Friday, three civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb in Khost province.
-- Associated Press
IRAN
Tehran urged to accept fuel plan
Representatives of six world powers, meeting in Brussels on Friday, urged Iran to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.
A European Union official said that at the meeting of senior diplomats from the U.N. Security Council's five permanent members plus Germany, there was no mention of imposing sanctions on Iran for its refusal to halt nuclear enrichment activities. But the diplomats said they were "disappointed" by Iran's failure to live up to understandings reached Oct. 1.
