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ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said on Friday the situation on the Indian border was fragile as U.S. vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived for talks aimed at easing strained ties between the South Asian neighbours.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said Friday the situation on the Indian border was fragile as U.S. vice president-elect Joe Biden arrived for talks aimed at easing strained ties between the South Asian neighbors.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese officials have apologized to a Belgian journalist who was beaten while trying to report on AIDS in central Henan province and offered some compensation for damaged and stolen possessions, his television station said.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Fire swept through a slum in the Pakistani city of Karachi early Friday killing 39 people, including 20 children, officials and witnesses said.

RAIPUR, India (Reuters) - Police scoured the jungles of a central Indian state looking for wounded Maoist rebels on Friday, a day after 15 rebels were killed in a fierce gunbattle with government forces, officials said.

HERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 10 civilians, a senior Afghan police officer and his bodyguard in southwest Afghanistan Friday, a provincial governor said.

KABUL (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed more than 10 civilians and a senior Afghan police officer and his bodyguard in southwest Afghanistan on Friday, a provincial governor said.

A 31-year-old man has drowned in floods that have hit Fiji in the past two days.

MOSCOW/KIEV (Reuters) - Europe sought a swift restoration of gas supplies on Friday after striking a deal with Moscow on monitoring gas shipments via Ukraine that have been halted by a pricing dispute with Kiev.