DEADLY BLAST: Police say a bomb ripped through a crowded morning rush-hour passenger bus Friday in a suburb of Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, killing at least 21 people and wounding another 47. A military spokesman accused the Tamil Tiger rebels of detonating the bomb.
AFGHAN MIRE: Australian Defense Minister Joel Fitzgibbon said that 10,000 more soldiers are needed in Afghanistan to quell a resurgent Taliban, and Europe’s unwillingness to commit more troops is likely to leave the task to Washington.
ABKHAZIA WARNING: The European Parliament said that Russia’s peacekeeping mission in the Georgian breakaway region of Abkhazia is no longer neutral and the terms of its deployment must be changed. The European Union assembly demanded that the EU’s 27 governments agree to send their own mission to Abkhazia.
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