Pakistan suicide bombing kills anti-Taliban mayor (AP)
Afghan president: No corrupt officials in new govt (AP)
India PM invites world to invest in economy (AFP)
NATO, Afghanistan probe deadly 'friendly' strike (AFP)
Dalai Lama visits monastery despite China protest (AFP)
Cambodia announces Thaksin visit (AFP)
China to give Africa $10 billion in loans: Wen (AFP)
Sri Lanka reports first swine flu death (AFP)
Chinese premier pledges funds, aid to Africa (AP)
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AFP - A suicide car bomber struck near a busy livestock market in Pakistan's Peshawar city on Sunday, killing 12 people including a former Taliban sympathiser turned anti-militant mayor, police said.
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in a crowded market in northwestern Pakistan, killing an anti-Taliban mayor who had formed a militia to fight the militants and 11 other people, officials said.
AP - Afghan President Hamid Karzai, under fire from his international partners to clean up his administration, insisted Sunday there's no place for corrupt officials within his government.
AFP - India?s premier Manmohan Singh promised Sunday to step up financial reforms to drive economic growth as he rolled out the welcome mat for foreign investors.
AFP - Investigations were under way Sunday into the deaths of seven soldiers and police killed in what Afghan officials called a mis-targeted NATO air strike, one of the worst "friendly fire" incidents of an eight-year war.
AFP - The Dalai Lama visited a remote Tibetan monastery in northeast India on Sunday at the start of a trip that has infuriated China, which claims the surrounding Himalayan region as its own.
AFP - Fugitive former Thai premier Thaksin Shinawatra will visit Phnom Penh this week in his new role as economics adviser, the Cambodian PM said Sunday, further stoking a row with Thailand.
AFP - Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao pledged to give African countries 10 billion dollars in concessional loans as a two-day Forum on China-Africa Cooperation opened in Egypt on Sunday.
AFP - A 16-year-old Sri Lankan boy became the first victim in the country of influenza A(H1N1), or swine flu, doctors said Sunday.
AP - China's premier on Sunday pledged $10 billion in low interest loans to African nations over the next three years and said Beijing would cancel the government debts of some of the poorest of those countries, as the Asian powerhouse looked to deflect criticism that its investments in the continent were motivated purely by greed.
