GUINEA: The main opposition coalition in Guinea has called for its members to withdraw from the country’s legislative body after the ruling military group missed a deadline for a return to democratic rule.

The Forces Vives de Guinee coalition group, which includes the country’s main opposition parties, called for its members to withdraw from the National Transitional Council in a statement late on Wednesday. 

PAKISTAN: A rocket attack struck a convoy of aid trucks carrying food and other relief supplies for hundreds of thousands of residents hit by sectarian violence in the restive north-west, officials said today.

There were no immediate reports of casualties in the attack in Bagan, a city in the Kurram district, where at least 130 people have died in recent months in clashes between rival Shi’ite and Sunni tribes.

BULGARIA: Bulgaria’s parliament today formally approved a coalition government led by the right-wing GERB party, which has pledged to restore financial stability and maintain cordial relations with the EU and Nato.

Lawmakers elected Rosen Zhelyazkov as prime minister to head a new government ahead of party leader Boyko Borissov, who led three governments between 2009 and 2021.

CAMBODIA: Two Cambodian de-miners were killed today as they attempted to remove an anti-tank mine left over from the country’s near three decades of war, authorities said.

The Cambodian Mines Action Centre said the two men, Pov Nepin and Ouen Channara, had been working to clear mines from a farmer's rice field in north-western Oddar Meanchey provinc, an area of heavy fighting between the government and insurgent Khmer Rouge forces in the 1980s.