Sri Lanka’s navy sank two large ships it said were transporting arms for Tamil Tiger rebels. The blazing vessels and the crew disappeared under the waves after a series of explosions. The incident follows a year-long series of land and sea clashes.
The six-nation agreement on shutting down North Korea’s nuclear arms programme is “on schedule” after negotiators agreed on some key implementation details in talks. An agreement was also reached in the row over funds frozen by the US.
Indian Maoist rebels, suspected of killing 55 police officers in an attack last week, called for a strike across four eastern states to protest against the shooting of 14 villagers by the police.
Bangladesh police formally charged Tareque Rahman, a detained son of Bangladesh’s most recent prime minister, Begum Khaleda Zia, with extortion.
Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia voted in a parliamentary election run-off after a poll two weeks ago failed to form a new assembly.
Montenegrin police took the unusual step of detaining several relatives of Bosnia Serb war crimes fugitive Radovan Karadzic, questioning them about his whereabouts.
Turkey’s coast guard detained a ship with 184 Turks, Iraqis and Palestinians aboard trying to reach the European Union illegally via the Greek island of Lesbos.
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