印度阿富汗战略伙伴关系被视为加深双方伙伴关系的重大步骤，印度是阿富汗最大的捐助国之一，主要在道路、医院和能源项目上进行投资。而在新的伙伴关系中，印度将在帮助训练阿富汗国家警察方面发挥更大作用。双方的安全行动可能令伊斯兰堡当局感到不舒服，因为巴基斯坦对印度在阿富汗扩张势力的目的表示怀疑。

The Islamic militant group al-Shabab says it carried out a suicide bombing in the Somali capital Mogadishu, which killed at least 70 people and injured 90 more. It's the deadliest single attack in the group's five-year history and one of the worst seen in Somalia in 20 years of civil war. A truck packed with explosives blew up near the Ministry of Higher Education, close to the centre of Mogadishu.

伊斯兰阿尔沙巴布事组织声称在索马里首都摩加迪沙发起自杀式炸弹袭击，至少70人死亡，90多人受伤。这是该组织五年历史中最凶猛的袭击，也是索马里20年内战中最残酷的袭击。一辆装有炸药的卡车在将近摩加迪沙市中心的高等教育部附近爆炸。

Archbishop Desmond Tutu has expressed anger at the news that the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, was calling off a visit to South Africa because he did not expect to get a visa. Archbishop Tutu had invited him to his 80th birthday celebrations. Archbishop Tutu accused the ANC government of behaving as badly as the apartheid system it had fought in the 1980s.