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Yash Vyas, 6, lies on a bed in a ward of the Civil Hospital in Ahmadabad, India, late Saturday, July 26, 2008. Yash lost his father Dushyant Vyas and his brother Rohan was injured in Saturday's blasts. At least 29 people were killed and 88 wounded when a series of small explosions hit the western city on Saturday, a top official said. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)

Sixteen bombs hit India's Ahmedabad, 29 killed

Sat Jul 26, 2:25 PM ET

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - At least 16 small bombs exploded in the Indian city of Ahmedabad on Saturday, killing at least 29 people and wounding 88, a day after another set of blasts in the country's IT hub, officials said.

  • Bosnian Serbs hold up pictures of Radovan Karadzic in his wartime stronghold of Pale, near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo July 26, 2008. Karadzic, who had been indicted for genocide during the Bosnia wars, was captured in Belgrade earlier this week after 11 years in hiding. (Danilo Krstanovic/Reuters)
    Bosnian Serbs pray for Karadzic, say charges unjust Sat Jul 26, 9:03 AM ET

    PALE, Bosnia (Reuters) - Hundreds of people gathered to pray for Radovan Karadzic across the Serb half of Bosnia on Saturday, holding vigils inside churches or marching in protest at his arrest on war crimes charges.

  • Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani speaks during a televised address to the nation on state-run television in Islamabad July 19, 2008. (/Press Information Department/Handout/Reuters)
    War on terror is Pakistan's own war: prime minister Sat Jul 26, 3:06 AM ET

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan is fighting al Qaeda and the Taliban for its own interests, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Saturday as he embarked on his first official visit to the United States.

  • A file photo taken in April 2008 shows Berge Sisar, a liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) tanker from which gunmen kidnapped eight foreign oil workers off Nigeria's Niger Delta early on July 26, 2008. (Handout/Reuters)
    Nigerian gunmen release 8 expats but others still held Sat Jul 26, 5:06 PM ET

    LAGOS (Reuters) - Gunmen in Nigeria released eight foreign oil workers seized from a vessel off the Niger Delta on Saturday but eight other people abducted in separate incidents were still being held, security officials said.

  • A Thai soldier stands guard in a Thai village bordering Cambodia's Preah Vihear Temple July 26, 2008. (Sukree Sukplang/Reuters)
    Cambodians vote amid Thai temple stand-off 1 hour, 45 minutes ago

    PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodians went to the polls on Sunday in an election overshadowed by a row with neighboring Thailand over a 900-year-old temple that has inflamed nationalist passions and led to troop build-ups on the border.

  • Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice speaks at a news conference at Government House in Auckland July 26, 2008. (Nigel Marple/Reuters)
    Rice tells Fiji to hold elections on time 7 minutes ago

    APIA, Samoa (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice pressed Fiji in a meeting of Pacific foreign ministers in Samoa on Saturday to ensure the country's military rulers held elections as promised in March 2009.

  • Palestinians pray next to the bodies of Hamas militants after they were killed in a bomb explosion at a major junction in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip July 26, 2008. A bomb exploded next to a car used by the armed wing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip on Friday, killing three gunmen and a girl, the ruling Palestinian Islamist group and medical officials said. (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)
    Hamas seizes Abbas-run agency in Gaza crackdown Sat Jul 26, 3:21 PM ET

    GAZA (Reuters) - Hamas security forces stormed the office of a Palestinian news agency run by President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday and arrested dozens from his Fatah faction in their biggest crackdown since seizing Gaza, Fatah sources said.

  • World Trade Organization (WTO) Director-General Pascal Lamy smiles before an informal session of the Trade Negociation Committee at the WTO headquarters in Geneva July 21, 2008. (Denis Balibouse/Reuters)
    U.S. ready to talk about temporary visas at WTO Sat Jul 26, 3:43 PM ET

    GENEVA (Reuters) - The United States, responding to a key demand of developing countries, said on Saturday it would discuss giving more temporary access to foreign professionals, injecting renewed optimism into world trade talks.

  • Yemen Qaeda group claims attack on police station Sat Jul 26, 5:34 PM ET

    DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group has claimed responsibility for an attack on a police station that killed two people and injured 18 others in Yemen's Hadramout province.

  • Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani speaks during a televised address to the nation on state-run television in Islamabad July 19, 2008. Gilani put the military's main spy agency under the control of the Interior Ministry on Saturday, a move seen as asserting civilian authority over the powerful intelligence network. (/Press Information Department/Handout/Reuters)
    Pakistan puts spy agency under civilian control Sat Jul 26, 2:38 PM ET

    ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani put the military's main spy agency under the control of the Interior Ministry on Saturday, a move seen as asserting civilian authority over the intelligence network.

  • Sri Lankan soldiers patrol in Vidattaltivu, northwestern Mannar July 24, 2008. Sri Lankan troops killed at least 22 Tamil Tiger rebels in fresh fighting in the far north of the island on Friday, the military said, as government forces continue their push against the rebels' northern stronghold. Picture taken July 24, 2008. (Stringer/Reuters)
    Sri Lanka fighting kills 74, mostly rebels Sat Jul 26, 11:05 AM ET

    COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan troops continued their offensive against Tamil Tiger rebels in two days of fighting in the north that killed 66 Tigers and eight soldiers, the military said on Saturday.

  • Italian govt faces uproar over migrant emergency Sat Jul 26, 11:40 AM ET

    ROME (Reuters) - Italy's right-wing government on Saturday defended its decision to declare a nationwide state of emergency to deal with an influx of illegal immigrants after sharp criticism of the move.

  • A boy walks past grafitti in Santiago de Cuba July 25, 2008. President Raul Castro returns to the birthplace of the Cuban revolution this week for a speech that will be watched for news on what some consider another, quieter revolution now taking place on the socialist island. Castro's speech, to be given in the eastern city of Santiago on Saturday, will mark the 55th anniversary of the July 26, 1953 rebel assault which Fidel Castro led on the nearby Moncada army barracks. The graffiti reads, 'Neighborhood for neighborhood, revolution'. (Claudia Daut/Reuters)
    Cubans anticipate news on reforms in Castro speech Sat Jul 26, 9:33 AM ET

    HAVANA (Reuters) - President Raul Castro will mark the 55th anniversary of the start of the Cuban revolution on Saturday with a speech to a nation waiting to hear how far and how fast he plans to go in reforming the island's struggling state-run economy.

  • A grieving parent is assisted by relatives as she cries in front of the rubble of the Beichuan Number One Middle School, located around 150 km (93 miles) north of Chengdu in Sichuan Province June 12, 2008, where around 700 children died during last month's massive earthquake. Couples whose only child was killed or seriously injured in the May 12 Sichuan province earthquake may have another, winning an exemption from China's strict family planning rules, the China Daily said on Saturday. (David Gray/Reuters)
    Parents of China quake victims can have second child Sat Jul 26, 8:37 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Couples whose only child was killed or seriously injured in the May 12 Sichuan province earthquake may have another, winning an exemption from China's strict family planning rules, the China Daily said on Saturday.

  • U.S. Missionary Steven Godbold (C) stands with U.S. Ambassador Louis Nigro (L) and Chad's Foreign Minister Moussa Faki Mahamat after being freed, by Chad's rebel Movement for Democracy and Justice in Chad (MDJT), in N'djamena, July 26, 2008. Godbold, who was captured by rebels in October while helping a local organisation transport equipment to drill water wells, was freed late on Thursday, The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM), based in Wheaton, Illinois, said in a statement. (Moumine Ngarmbassa/Reuters)
    Freed U.S. hostage was Chad rebels' "guest of honor" Sat Jul 26, 12:51 PM ET

    N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Freed U.S. missionary Steven Godbold expressed relief to be on his way home on Saturday but said Chadian rebels had treated him as "guest of honor" during his nine months as a hostage deep in the Sahara.

  • Lebanese soldiers in armoured personnel carriers patrol a street in Tripoli after clashes between Sunni Muslim supporters of the government and Alawite gunmen close to the Shi'ite Hezbollah-led opposition in Tripoli, northern Lebanon July 26, 2008. Rival sectarian factions clashed in Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli on Saturday for a second consecutive day and medical sources said the death toll from the fighting rose to eight. (Omar Ibrahim/Reuters)
    Lebanese army deploys to halt second day of clashes Sat Jul 26, 9:53 AM ET

    TRIPOLI, Lebanon (Reuters) - The Lebanese army deployed on Saturday to halt two days of heavy sectarian fighting in the northern city of Tripoli which medical sources said had killed nine people.

  • Max Mosley, president of the International Automobile Federation (FIA), Formula One's governing body, leaves the High Court in central London July 24, 2008. Mosley won damages in a British court on Thursday as a judge ruled that a tabloid newspaper violated his privacy by publishing details of his part in a sado-masochistic orgy. (Andrew Winning/Reuters)
    Dominatrix "sorry" for racing chief orgy row Sat Jul 26, 7:50 AM ET

    LONDON (Reuters) - The woman who filmed motor racing chief Max Mosley taking part in a sado-masochistic orgy and sold the story to a British tabloid newspaper has apologized for the trouble it caused.

  • Gunmen kidnap eight expats off oil vessel in Nigeria Sat Jul 26, 9:49 AM ET

    LAGOS (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped eight foreign oil workers from a vessel off Nigeria's Niger Delta early on Saturday, bringing to 16 the number of industry workers seized in the past 48 hours, security sources said.

  • Police inspect the scene of a bus explosion in Kunming, Yunnan province July 21, 2008. (China Daily/Reuters)
    China denies group's claim of role in bus bombings Sat Jul 26, 6:12 AM ET

    BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese authorities denied claims by a group calling itself the Turkistan Islamic Party that it was responsible for deadly bus explosions in Shanghai and Yunnan province ahead of the Olympic Games, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Saturday.

  • Iran to hang 30 for murder, other crimes: report Sat Jul 26, 8:02 AM ET

    TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran plans to execute 30 people in the capital Tehran on Sunday for murder, drug smuggling and other crimes, newspapers reported on Saturday.