BBC News with Marion Marshall
Suicide bombers in the Afghan capital Kabul have attacked a police station close to the presidential palace. Nine people were killed. An interior ministry spokesman, Mohammad Seddiq Seddiqi, said order had been
restore
d.
"The national police managed to kill the terrorists very quickly and cleared the area, and have prevented them from
inflict
ing further harm on civilians. We are pleased that they were killed."
The attack came soon after President Hamid Karzai gave the first high-level official confirmation that the United States is taking part in talks with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Libyan rebels have accused the West of failing to deliver urgent financial aid and say they've run out of cash. The
complaint
came from the rebel oil and finance minister Ali Tarhouni. Paddy Clark reports.
Mr Tarhouni was speaking in a rare interview in the rebel-held city of Benghazi. He said that after months of fighting the rebels were running out of everything. Western nations either didn't understand, he said, or didn't care. However, he insisted that the rebels will find a way out of their difficulties and said they were talking to major oil companies on future cooperation, including the German firm Wintershall and France's Total. Mr Tarhouni emphasised that the rebels have been dying for their cause, and he was
adamant
that whatever the setbacks, they would never give up.