RAWALPINDI, Pakistan – Pakistani commandos stormed an office building yesterday and rescued 39 people taken hostage by suspected Taliban militants after a brazen attack on the army’s headquarters.
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LONDON – U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday that international powers would not wait forever for Iran to prove it was not developing nuclear bombs.
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MOSCOW – Opposition candidates and election observers said significant violations in regional votes across Russia yesterday showed President Dmitry Medvedev was failing to follow through on a promise to boost democracy.
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KABUL – The head of the United Nations mission in Afghanistan denied accusations yesterday that he had helped cover up election fraud, and said he still believed a result could be reached that Afghans would find credible.
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ISTANBUL – Turkey’s Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday that Armenia must withdraw from Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan to assure his parliament’s approval for a peace accord signed between Turkey and Armenia.
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JERUSALEM – A U.S. presidential envoy ended a Middle East shuttle mission yesterday with no sign of any imminent resumption of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
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RAMADI, Iraq – Three bombs killed at least 16 people and wounded scores more yesterday in Ramadi, capital of Iraq’s western Anbar province, officials said, in the latest in a string of attacks in the vast desert region.
