KHARTOUM, Oct 20, 2007 (AFP) - The African Union on Saturday confirmed that an attack took place on a Darfur refugee camp on Friday and called on all parties to exercise restraint ahead of peace talks in Libya next week.

'We can confirm that there was an attack in Kalma camp, near Nyala in south Darfur,' said Noureddine Mezni, African Union mission in Sudan (AMIS) spokesman.

He said an inquiry had been launched to determine who was behind the killings. The number of casualties was not immediately clear.

PARIS, Oct 19, 2007 (AFP) - Benazir Bhutto on Friday accused supporters of Pakistan's late military ruler Mohammed Zia ul-Haq for the bomb explosion that killed more than 130 people after her arrival at Karachi, in an interview to Paris-Match magazine.

'I know exactly who wants to kill me. It is dignitaries of the former regime of General Zia who are today behind the extremism and the fanaticism,' she said in an interview published on Paris-Match's Internet site.

WASHINGTON, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - The United States said Wednesday it was concerned over a spate of bloody violence in Sudan's Darfur region in recent weeks, including the latest killing of three UN truck drivers.

Two of the drivers from the UN World Food Programme (WFP) were killed Tuesday in south Darfur as they were returning from delivering supplies near the scene of an attack on an African Union base which killed 10 peacekeepers last month.

MOSCOW, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - The secessionist region of Abkhazia Wednesday accused Georgia of staging an attack on a border post, Russia's Ria-Novosti news agency reported.

A police official said the attack took place in the evening near the village of Taglan.

'A group of armed Georgians tried to capture a border post. Following an exchange of fire, our patrols repulsed the attack,' he said.

Abkhazia, a sliver of land between the Black Sea and the Caucasus mountains, broke away from Georgia after fierce fighting in 1992-93 and now has de facto independence.

KHARTOUM, Oct 17, 2007 (AFP) - The UN World Food Programme (WFP) on Wednesday condemned the killing of three of its truck drivers in the violence-stricken western Sudanese region of Darfur.

Two of the men were killed Tuesday in south Darfur as they were returning from delivering supplies near the scene of an attack on an African Union base which killed 10 peacekeepers last month, according to a WFP statement.

SRINAGAR, India, Oct 11, 2007 (AFP) - A fierce gun battle was raging in Indian Kashmir Thursday after Islamic militants attempted to storm a police camp in what appeared to be the boldest rebel attack in months, police said.

The crack of gunfire could be heard from the banks of the scenic Dal Lake near Srinagar, the urban hub of the anti-India revolt in the disputed region, as security forces battled an unknown number of Muslim fighters.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 10, 2007 (AFP) - A policeman was killed and four other people injured Wednesday when a bomb was hurled at a police vehicle in Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey's restive mainly Kurdish southeast, officials said.

A shop was also damaged in the attack, leaving two people injured.

The two other injured were police officers.

Some witnesses said the device hurled at the vehicle was a hand grenade.

It was not immediately known who was behind the attack.

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey, Oct 10, 2007 (AFP) - A policeman was killed and four other people injured Wednesday when a bomb was hurled at a police vehicle in Diyarbakir, the largest city of Turkey's restive mainly Kurdish southeast, officials said.

A shop was also damaged in the attack, leaving two people injured.

The two other injured were police officers.

Some witnesses said the device hurled at the vehicle was a hand grenade.

It was not immediately known who was behind the attack.

COLOMBO, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - Authorities in the Maldives investigating a bomb attack on foreign tourists have arrested at least 50 local people following violent clashes with Islamic radicals, the government said Tuesday.

Security forces and police overpowered '70 masked men wearing red helmets, armed with wooden planks, spears, swords, bricks, iron rods and catapults' outside a prayer centre on Himandhoo island, a government statement said.

COLOMBO, Oct 9, 2007 (AFP) - Authorities in the Maldives investigating a bomb attack on foreign tourists have arrested at least 50 local people following violent clashes with Islamic radicals, the government said Tuesday.

Security forces and police overpowered '70 masked men wearing red helmets, armed with wooden planks, spears, swords, bricks, iron rods and catapults' outside a prayer centre on one island, a government statement said.