KOLKATA - Two activists, one each from the Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) and the Trinamool Congress, were killed Wednesday following a clash over a piece of land in West Bengal's North 24-Parganas district, police said.

ISLAMABAD - Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik said Wednesday that the Taliban are "mercenary killers and they are neither Islamic nor Pakistani", stressing that the country stands united against terrorism.

BERLIN - German intelligence agents have received evidence from the US that Al Qaeda has sent two to four terrorists to Germany and Britain via India and the UAE, media reported Wednesday.

KINSHASA - Rwandan Hutu rebels have shot dead 21 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Xinhua reported Wednesday.

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