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The attacks on police in the Punjabi capital Lahore and a car bomb in Kohat in the northwest came ahead of an expected military offensive against the Taliban in its South Waziristan stronghold on the Afghan border. Ten militants, some of them teenagers, were killed in the attacks on three police centres in Lahore. The violence, just days after a raid on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi, highlights the risk posed by militants to Punjab, Pakistans most economically important province. METRO World MEXICO: A poll has found Mexican adults curse an average of 20 times a day. One in 10 claimed they never curse at all, while upper class citizens reported swearing more than the poor. A photo of the Berlin Wall opening is projected on Berlin Cathedral to open the Festival of Lights Picture: Reuters Rwanda: A suspect accused of forming death squads and orchestrating the killings of thousands in 1994 has pleaded not guilty to war crimes. Idelphonse Nizeyimana is accused of ordering the murders of children, hospital patients and even an African queen. More than 500,000 members of the Tutsi minority and moderates from the Hutu majority were killed in the 1994 genocide. aMERICa: More than 6.7million people in California have signed up to take part in an earthquake drill billed as the largest such exercise in US history. Hospitals and fire departments will stage elaborate simulations with search-and-rescue missions and people posing as quake victims. The state faces a 46 per cent chance of being hit by a 7.5 or larger earthquake in the next 30 years. HOndURaS: Leader Roberto Micheletti has rejected a deal to resolve the crisis sparked by the ousting of President Manuel Zelaya (pictured). The central issue in negotiations is the reinstatement of Mr Zelaya, but Mr Micheletti has said the courts should decide the matter. nEtHERlandS: The UN war crimes tribunal says the trial of former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic will begin on October 26. Karadzic (pictured) is charged with masterminding Serb atrocities during the 1992-95 Bosnian war. He claims he is innocent of all charges. tHaIland: Concerns for the health of the king sparked a second day of frantic selling of foreign stocks in the countrys financial markets. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (pictured) has been in hospital since September when he was admitted with fever. He is now recovering from pneumonia. Hike up tHe band A musician performs in a delivery tricycle as part of the biennial contemporary arts festival Evento in the French city of Bordeaux Picture: AFP GUInEa: The International Criminal Court has launched a preliminary investigation into violence that erupted last month at a sports stadium in the west African nation. The inquiry is meant to establish whether offences were committed when presidential guard troops fired on the 50,000-strong crowd. A human rights group says 157 people were killed, although the government puts the death toll at 57. MOldOVa: A grenade explosion at a concert in the main square of the capital Chisinau has injured at least 40 people. The military grenade had been left in a box and exploded as the Russian pop group Bravo brought the concert to its climax. The former Soviet state has been in the grip of political instability after a pro-Western coalition committed to European integration won the July elections. SwItZERland: Film director Roman Polanski is finishing work on his latest film in a Zurich jail where he is fighting extradition to the US on a 1977 sex charge. Polanski (pictured) wants to finish the movie, The Ghost, in time for its premiere at the Berlin film festival in February. kidnap man forced to kill own brotherBy con dohErtyUGANDAN-led rebels are expanding their territory in northern Congo, com- mitting child abductions, rapes, and, in one instance, forcing a man to club his own brother to death, an international aid group claimed yesterday. Mdecins Sans Frontires says the vio- lence by members of a shadowy Ugandan rebel group called the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) started in a remote region of northern Congo last year and has since spread to other areas. Few other humani- tarian agencies are working in the area, which has few roads. The aid group, also known as Doctors Without Borders, presented a video of victims testimony at a news conference in South Africa. One man said he had been abducted with his brother, who tried to escape. He was forced to recapture his brother and club him to death. His name and the names of others who appeared in the video were withheld by MSF to protect them from possible re- prisals for speaking out. In the video, a 15-year-old girl and an 18-year-old woman described being cap- tured and raped. They told me they were going to make me someones wife, but I refused, and they hit me with a knife, the 18-year-old woman said. I was wounded in the leg. So I had to accept. Meinie Nicolai, MSFs operational di- rector, said her group could not address the political question of how to stop the violence. But she said: There needs to be respect for the civilian population. She added that the work was danger- ous: The security situation for humani- tarian workers is not easy. But were not saying its impossible. And the needs in the area are increasing. The mysterious LRA is notorious for mutilating victims and abducting chil- dren, forcing the boys to fight and the girls to become rebels concubines. It has been waging an insurgency in Uganda for more than 20 years, and the conflict spilled over into Congo five years ago. index.html2.html3.html4.html5.html6.html7.html8.html9.html10.html11.html12.html13.html14.html15.html16.html17.html18.html19.html20.html21.html22.html23.html