Rocket attacks kill 2 NATO troops, 3 Afghans
KABUL, Afghanistan -- Rockets crashed into a U.S. base and a house Friday in a remote area of northeastern Afghanistan along the Pakistan border, killing two NATO service members and three civilians, officials said.
Sabawoon Hotak, a local spokesman for the U.S.-led coalition in eastern Afghanistan, said the two service members were killed and four others were lightly wounded when the rocket struck the base in the Nari district of Kunar province.
The heaviest fighting in the decade-long war is concentrated in the south and east of the country, although insurgents have opened new fronts in the north and west and continue to conduct suicide attacks in the capital, Kabul.
Provincial police chief Gen. Ewaz Mohammad Nazari said the other rocket hit a home in the Marawara district, killing three people and wounding six others, including a child. He said the rocket was fired from the direction of the Afghan-Pakistan border.
Yemeni troops kill 11 al-Qaida militants
SANAA, Yemen -- Government troops killed 11 al-Qaida fighters in southern Yemen on Friday, as the army battled its way into the outskirts of a key town under the militants' control, military officials said.
Yemeni troops moved in on Jaar in Abyan province, killing eight al-Qaida fighters in clashes about six miles north of the town.
In Abyan, a Yemeni warplane struck an al-Qaida checkpoint about 45 miles east of Zinjibar in an area known as Shoqra, killing three militants and wounding six, officials said.
Pro-EU candidate leads presidential polls in Serbia
BELGRADE, Serbia -- Serbs seem poised this weekend to re-elect a reformist who arrested Bosnian Serb general Ratko Mladic, rejecting a nationalist promising closer ties with Russia -- in a sign that the troubled Balkan nation is edging away from its 1990s war legacy.
Boris Tadic, who championed Serbia's bid to become a member of the European Union, was leading the polls against former right-wing extremist Tomislav Nikolic, days ahead of the key presidential runoff on Sunday.
Tadic was 0.5 percent ahead of Nikolic in the first round of voting on May 6, while Nikolic's Progressive Party won the most votes for Parliament.
Quebec passes law in effort to end protests
MONTREAL -- Quebec's provincial government passed an emergency law Friday that will shut some universities and impose harsh fines on protesters blocking students from attending classes as the government looks to end three months of demonstrations against tuition hikes.
The law risks inciting students, who called it an act of war.
Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Montreal on Thursday night as the government introduced the bill to quell the most sustained student protests in Canadian history.
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-- from wire reports
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