A new round of NATO airstrikes rattled the suburbs of the Libyan capital on July 17 as Muammar Gaddafi vowed never to leave his country.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will pay a brief visit this month to the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen for talks on the complex relationship between the Pacific nations, her spokesman said.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh vowed on July 14 to bring to justice those behind triple bomb attacks on India's financial capital Mumbai, and police questioned members of a home-grown Islamist militant group.

Five people were killed and 15 others injured on Thursday in a suicide bomb attack in Kandahar city, the capital of southern Afghan province of Kandahar.

The IMF joined Germany on July 13 in pushing for private sector investors to help cut Greece's debt mountain as the euro zone sought to break an impasse on how and when to grant the country urgent aid.

Three serial blasts rocked India's financial hub Mumbai at around 7:00 p.m. Wednesday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 113 others, said the local government which believed it is a terror attack that reminded of the 2008 terror attack killing 166.

Japan's centre-left Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Wednesday that the country must gradually reduce its reliance on atomic power with the eventual goal of becoming nuclear-free.

US Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on Wednesday forecast a moderate surge in growth later this year, but said the Fed is ready with new stimulus measures if the economy continues to stall.

Russia said there was little hope of finding any more people alive on July 11 after an overloaded tourist boat sank in the Volga River, killing 128 people in Russia's worst river accident in three decades.

 

 

An earthquake of 6.2 magnitude struck the Philippines on Tuesday, the US Geological Survey said, although there was no immediate tsunami warning.

More than 100 people were missing and feared drowned after a tourist boat sank in Russia's Volga river on Sunday, said emergency services officials and survivors.

Thousands of demonstrators, including Islamists, held rallies in Rabat and Casablanca Sunday to demand greater political reform and social justice in Morocco.

A strong earthquake of magnitude 7.1 off north-eastern Japan has triggered a tsunami warning, reports say.