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By xxxevilgrinxxx | Published: November 14, 2009

Pakistan
A suicide car bomb devastated Pakistan’s main spy agency building in the northwest Friday, killing at least 7 people and striking at the heart of the institution overseeing much of the country’s anti-terror campaign. The blast in Peshawar was the latest in a string of bloody attacks on security forces, civilian and Western targets since the government launched an offensive in mid-October against militants in the border region of South Waziristan, where al-Qaida and Taliban leaders are believed to be hiding out. Security forces guarding the Inter-Services Intelligence agency building opened fire on the attacking vehicle to stop it, but the bomber was able to detonate his explosives, said an intelligence official.

*A suicide car bomber struck a convoy of civilian vehicles outside a U.S. military base in Kabul early on Friday. A damaged white civilian vehicle could be seen at the debris-strewn blast site on a main road about 100 yards from Camp Phoenix, a large U.S. military base also used by troops from other NATO countries near the airport.

Russia
A fire at a defence ministry arsenal on the outskirts of Ulyanovsk (about 900km (550 miles) south-east of the capital Moscow) caused blasts which shattered windows of nearby homes, local reports said.

Ecuador and Colombia
Ecuador and Colombia have reestablished their diplomatic ties that were severed last year on the heels of a cross-border raid by the Colombian military into Ecuadorean territory.

Honduras
The Honduran Supreme Court is considering ways to extricate the country from the crisis over the Nov. 29 presidential election, which is most likely to be declared invalid unless ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya is reinstated before the vote.