The arrest of a Pakistani-born German citizen offers glimpses of the traffic into the tribal areas of Pakistan and the attempt by the authorities to monitor it.
AP - The U.S. military accused Iran on Sunday of smuggling surface-to-air missiles and other advanced weapons into Iraq for use against American troops. The new allegations came as Iraqi leaders condemned the latest U.S. detention of an Iranian in northern Iraq, saying the man was in their country on official business.
AP - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in New York to protests Sunday and said in a television interview that Iran was neither building a nuclear bomb nor headed to war with the United States.
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday his government is working very hard on peace talks with the Taliban that would draw the insurgents and their supporters "back to the fold."
The United Auto Workers union has set an 11 a.m. ET Monday strike deadline for its 73,000 members at General Motors, although talks between the union and the company were still ongoing. If there is a strike, it would be the nation's largest since August 2000.
The Iraqi government said it will file criminal charges against employees of security firm Blackwater USA who were involved a gun battle in Baghdad in which civilians were killed, an Iraqi Interior Ministry official said. Iraqi officials dispute Blackwater's claim that the guards were responding to an attack.