stationary
overnight, making landfalls twice all along our coast. The eye of the storm is drifting towards the west, northwest. We will continue to be affected in the southern part of our state by this storm throughout much of the day."
A gunman dressed in Afghan army uniform has shot dead three Nato soldiers in the southern Afghanistan. A US military official said the attacker was a member of the Afghan security forces. There's been a growing number of such attacks. More than 40 Nato soldiers have been killed by the Afghan colleagues so far this year, compared with 35 in the whole of last year. President Obama said last week that he was deeply concerned.
The United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, who's in the Iranian capital Tehran for the conference of
non-aligned
developing nations, has criticized Iran's record on human rights. Mr Ban was speaking after meeting the Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Mr Ban also called on Tehran to reassure the international community that Iran's nuclear program was peaceful.
Turkey, which is hosting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees, says it will
press ahead
with its call for the United Nations to set up a safe zone inside Syria. The Turkish foreign minister says he'll pursue the issue at the UN Security Council on Thursday. The Syrian President Bashar Assad has dismissed the idea as neither practical nor realistic.