World - AFP

JAKARTA (AFP) - Indonesian police confirmed regional terror outfit Jemaah Islamiyah as the culprits behind twin suicide blasts at Jakarta hotels, and said one of the bombers had been identified.

MUMBAI (AFP) - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was due in the Indian capital hoping to narrow a wide gap with her hosts on fighting climate change ahead of a high-stakes conference later in the year.

PHUKET, Thailand (AFP) - Asian foreign ministers will gather Sunday ahead of the continent's biggest security dialogue, under the shadow of the Jakarta bomb attacks and North Korea's nuclear programme.

SAN JOSE (AFP) - The rival parties in the Honduran political conflict have agreed to continue searching for a negotiated solution Sunday, after Costa Rican President Oscar Arias proposed a detailed plan for settling the three-week-old crisis.

TEHRAN (AFP) - A group of Iranian hardliners raised objections on Sunday to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's decision to appoint close aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as the country's new first vice president.

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, in a newspaper interview published Sunday, that US-led forces in Afghanistan must show progress by next summer to avoid the public perception that the conflict has become unwinnable.

MEXICO CITY (AFP) - Ten policemen were arrested in the western state of Michoacan in connection with the murder of 12 federal police whose bodies were found piled next to a road, prosecutors said.

BEIJING (AFP) - Members of a British student group quarantined by Chinese authorities over swine flu were "shocked" by their detention but were being treated well, a teacher said.

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Two astronauts from the US shuttle Endeavour late Saturday successfully completed the first of five scheduled spacewalks aimed at completing a Japanese laboratory at the International Space Station, NASA said.

MOSCOW (AFP) - One woman was killed and three people were wounded when unknown assailants opened fire on the house of a police troops chief in Russia's restive Caucasian republic of Ingushetia, Russian news agencies reported early Sunday.