Car bombing kills 12, including 3 Americans
KABUL, Afghanistan – A suicide car bomber attacked a NATO convoy traveling through a crowded neighborhood in Afghanistan’s capital Saturday, killing at least 12 people, including three American civilian contractors for the international military force, authorities said.
The Taliban quickly denied it was behind the attack in Kabul’s Macrorayan neighborhood. The attack struck near the private Shinozada hospital, the sound of the powerful blast roaring throughout the capital. Ambulances and Afghan security forces quickly surrounded the blast site, blocking access off from about half a mile away.
The bombing killed at least 11 Afghan civilians and one foreigner and wounded 66, said Wahidullah Mayar, a Health Ministry spokesman. In a statement, NATO said one of the Americans was killed in the blast, while the two others later died of their wounds. The contractors were not named.
Talks between Koreas adjourned till Sunday
PYONGYANG, North Korea – The first high-level talks in nearly a year between South Korea and North Korea were adjourned after stretching into the early hours of Sunday, as the rivals looked to defuse mounting tensions that have pushed them to the brink of a possible military confrontation.
The delegates agreed to resume the meeting at 3 p.m. Sunday South Korean time (0600 GMT, 2 a.m. EDT), said Seoul’s presidential spokesman, Min Kyung-wook. Min did not disclose any other details about the talks which adjourned at 4:15 a.m. Sunday.
The closed-door meeting in the border village of Panmunjom, where the armistice ending fighting in the Korean War was agreed to in 1953, began at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, shortly after a deadline set by North Korea for the South to dismantle loudspeakers broadcasting anti-North Korean propaganda at their border.
North Korea declared that its front-line troops were in full war readiness and prepared to go to battle if Seoul did not back down.
Migrants rush from Greece to Macedonia
GEVGELIJA, Macedonia – Thousands of rain-soaked migrants Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades, and dozens of people were injured in the border clashes.
By the end of the day, everyone got across, including several hundred migrants, mostly elderly and children, who had remained on the Greek side of the border.
Thousands then boarded trains and buses that took them up north to the border with Serbia from where they will attempt to enter European Union-member Hungary.
Associated Press
