UNITED NATIONS - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has strongly condemned the suicide attack on a UN office in Afghanistan's Herat province.

RAIPUR - A man was found murdered in Chhattisgarh's Maoist stronghold of Bastar region Saturday while normal life continued to remain hit on the second and final day of a shutdown by rebels, as buses did not ply and shops were closed.

KABUL - A NATO soldier and three civilians were killed in southern Afghanistan, while a journalist working for The New York Times newspaper was injured, officials said Saturday.

Moscow, Oct 23 (IANS/RIA Novosti) Two militants were killed in a shootout in Russia's volatile southern republic of Dagestan Saturday, police said.

KOLKATA - An Intelligence Branch (IB) officer and an NGO worker were abducted by the Maoists from West Bengal's Purulia district, police said Saturday.