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Another US-led airstrike has killed several civilians in Afghanistan's troubled south, amid growing public discontent over such attacks.

Afghan provincial officials say at least a dozen people were also injured in the fatal attack, which took place in Kandahar Province on Wednesday, a press TV correspondent reported.

Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has won the backing of the influential Greens party following the inconclusive elections in August.

Greens lawmaker Adam Bandt will back Gillard's Labor party in the parliament after she offered to set up a climate change committee.

Multiple bomb explosions at a Shia Muslim gathering in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have left at least 28 people dead and 200 others wounded.

Three bombs went off in quick succession during a crowded mourning procession in the Karbla Game Shah area of Lahore on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Multiple bomb explosions at a Shia Muslim gathering in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore have left at least 17 people dead and 125 others wounded.

Three bombs went off in quick succession during a crowded mourning procession in the Karbla Game Shah area of Lahore on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Hundreds of Pakistani flood victims have blocked a highway in the worst-hit province of Sindh, protesting the slow pace of aid deliveries to their relief camps.

About 500 people blocked the main road between Karachi and Thatta for three hours on Wednesday, calling on the Islamabad government to provide food and shelter for them.

US prosecutors have charged Hakimullah Mehsud, the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, with organising an attack that killed seven CIA employees at an American base in Afghanistan last December.

The US Justice department said on Wednesday that Mehsud, believed to be in the tribal areas of Pakistan, was charged with conspiracy to kill Americans overseas and to use a weapon of mass destruction.

Nearly 100 Afghan asylum seekers have broken out of an immigration detention center in Darwin, Australia and staged a peaceful protest pleading for protection.

The asylum seekers held signs made from bed sheets reading Please help us and Show us mercy .

A provincial Afghan official and his driver have been targeted in a bombing attack in Afghanistan's southern province of Kandahar, police say.

The incident occurred on Wednesday when a remote-controlled bomb mounted on a motorbike went off, hitting Mohammed Hassan Temori, head of Kandahar's hajj and Islamic affairs.

The American death toll in Afghanistan this year has reached the highest annual rate since the start of the US-led invasion of the country nearly nine years ago.

A total of 323 US soldiers have so far been killed in Afghanistan during 2010, compared to 317 in 2009, according to figures published by the independent icasualties.org website, quoted by AFP.

As Nick Clegg makes a surprise visit to British troops in Afghanistan's Helmand Province, he confirms plans to have troops out of Afghanistan by 2015.

The Press Association reported that the deputy prime minister stated to British troops at Camp Bastion base, “what I have seen today is a complete transformation of the military effort that I first saw when I visited two years ago,” adding that the coalition government is set on having all British combat troops out by 2015.