Cambodia
PHNOM PENH — The government has banned the import and sale of T-shirts bearing the image of Osama bin Laden, saying they encourage terrorism. The ban came after bin Laden shirts made in neighboring Thailand turned up at markets in two areas of northwestern Cambodia, Battambang and the border town of Poipet, an Interior Ministry spokesman said Tuesday.
China
BEIJING — Ten people were executed here Tuesday, including a pair of killers who battered their victims with iron bars, a state newspaper reported.
India
SRINAGAR — Military authorities accused Pakistan of violating a nearly 30-year-old peace agreement by what it said was unprovoked firing across a military control line dividing disputed Kashmir. It said an Indian and two Pakistani soldiers were killed on Monday in fresh exchange of fire between the two neighboring armies.
Kuwait
The wife of a Canadian man who was fatally shot last month has confessed to police that she and three accomplices were behind the attack, the interior minister said Tuesday. There were suspicions the Oct. 10 killing of aircraft technician Luc Ethier was related to the U.S. military operation in Afghanistan and retaliatory threats against Westerners living in this oil-rich state. Mary Jane Vitos, a Filipino national, was injured in the shooting and remains hospitalized. She and Ethier were married last year.
New Zealand
WELLINGTON — The government suspended imports of Californian table grapes after a poisonous black widow spider was discovered at a supermarket, raising to four the number found in shipments this year.
North Korea
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea said it wanted to improve ties with the United States, but indicated that it would not resume talks with Washington if they focused on the communist state's concentration of troops near South Korea.
Peru
LIMA — After weeks of slumping popularity ratings and widespread criticism that his salary was too high, Peru's president said Monday he is taking a retroactive pay cut. In remarks broadcast live on the radio, president Alejandro Toledo told high school students in Lima he is reducing his monthly salary by one-third, from $18,000 to $12,000.
Philippines
MANILA — The military warned it would quash any attempt by regional administrator Nur Misuari, a former Muslim rebel chief, to reassemble his forces and renew a war for an independent Islamic state.
Russia
MOSCOW — Nine bodies removed from the wreckage of the Kursk nuclear submarine were buried Tuesday in their home cities in ceremonies evoking painful memories of the disaster more than a year ago. Many of the sailors came from the western city of Kursk, namesake of the submarine, and eight bodies were buried there Tuesday. Another sailor was buried in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod. The Kursk exploded and sank on Aug. 12, 2000, during naval maneuvers in the Barents Sea, killing its entire crew of 118.
MOSCOW — Russian helicopter gunships rocketed Chechen separatist positions Monday after rebels killed two Russian officers in a wave of weekend fighting that overshadowed prospects for planned peace talks. Russian news agencies said the gunships pounded guerrilla hideouts in the North Caucasus region's mountainous south, killing at least a dozen people. Rebels attacked checkpoints and launched bomb attacks on Russian vehicles.
Saudi Arabia
RIYADH — The government will sign a U.N. anti-terrorism convention aimed at blocking the financial lifelines of global terrorist organizations, media reported Tuesday.
Spain
MADRID — A car bomb blamed on the armed Basque separatist group ETA exploded in Madrid on Tuesday, slightly injuring a government official believed to be its target and hurting 98 others, four of them seriously. The blast ripped through a residential street, spraying a 3-year old girl and her mother with metal fragments and destroying several cars parked nearby.
Vietnam
HANOI — Three people were killed and three injured last week when they set off an anti-tank mine while hunting for scrap, an official newspaper reported. Police in Ho Chi Minh City said the group of six unearthed a land mine left over from the Vietnam War in the province of Tay Ninh, about 38 miles northeast of Ho Chi Minh City. Explosions of ordnance left over from the war that ended in 1975 still kill and maim dozens of people each year, many children among them.