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Pakistan's president has appealed for international help, saying his country cannot deal with the aftermath of the massive earthquake on its own.

Nearly 2,000 people are confirmed dead in Pakistan after the strong quake that also hit north India and Afghanistan.

The Bosnian Serb government has drawn up a list of 19,473 Serb soldiers who operated in the region of Srebrenica at the time of the massacre there in 1995.

Britain claims Iran is responsible for the explosions which have caused the deaths of all eight UK soldiers killed in Iraq this year.

Iraq's electoral law has been changed in a way that will make it harder for Iraqis to reject the draft constitution. The United Nations has criticised these changes.

Muslim countries have been urged to set up an Islamic common market as a way of boosting trade and development.

EU foreign ministers have reached a deal clearing the way for accession talks with Turkey to begin, EU officials have said.

US soldiers have embarked on a major assault on al-Qaeda-linked militants in western Iraq, the US military says.

At least two bombs exploded almost simultaneously on Saturday in the tourist resort island of Bali in Indonesia, killing at least 22 people and wounding about 50 others, officials said.

The Delhi High Court has begun to hear a petition challenging a proposed Indian government ban on images of smoking in films and on television.