A bomb struck an Israeli bus near the nation's military headquarters in Tel Aviv on Wednesday, wounding 10 people and complicating major diplomatic efforts to forge a truce between Israel and Gaza's militant Hamas rulers. Ex-Mirror chief seals regional newspaper shake-up
LONDON (Reuters) – Daily Mail has agreed to sell its regional titles to a new company led by tabloid veteran David Montgomery in the biggest shake up of the British ne wspaper market for years. Under the plans, the new group will be called Local World and will reach a weekly newspaper audience of 6 million readers and 7 million online users, through its 107 print titles and 60 websites. Daily Mail will sell its titles to the new company for 52.5 million pounds ($83.6 million) and receive 39 percent of the new media group. … Kurdish fighters gather in disputed area in Iraq
A Kurdish commander says he has dispatched fighters to a disputed northern area as tensions mount between Iraq’s central government and the self-ruled autonomous region.
Bomb kills three, wounds five in Russia's North Caucasus
MAKHACHKALA, Russia (Reuters) – An improvised bomb killed two policemen and one civilian in Russia’s volatile North Caucasus on Wednesday and wounded five others, police said. The bomb went off in Dagestan, an internal mostly Muslim republic, which has been beset by violence blamed on insurgents seeking to create an Islamic state in the North Caucasus, more than a decade after Russian troops ousted a separatist government in neighboring Chechnya. …
Bomb blast kills 5 in southwest Pakistan
Pakistani officials say a bomb blast targeting an army vehicle has killed three soldiers and two civilians in the southwestern city of Quetta.
Greece's lenders fail again to clinch debt deal
BERLIN/ATHENS (Reuters) – International lenders failed for the second we ek to reach a deal to release emergency aid for Greece and will try again next Monday, but Germany signaled that major divisions remain. Euro zone finance ministers, the International Monetary Fund and the European Central Bank were unable to agree in 12 hours of overnight talks in Brussels on how to make the country's debt sustainable. They want a solution before paying the next urgently needed loan tranche to keep Greece afloat. … 
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