International efforts to pull India and Pakistan back from the edge of nuclear war appeared to stall again today as the Indian premier refused to hold talks with Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf.

Russian engineers are constructing a pontoon bridge across the Pyandzh River to transport humanitarian aid to Afghanistan.

Four-thousand Taliban troops are giving themselves up to an opposition commander, claims the Afghan Embassy.

Afghanistan’s opposition Northern Alliance and the country’s Taliban rulers have reportedly clashed near the border with Tajikistan as the alliance attempts to gain territory following daylight attacks by the US today.