Peshawar, Sept. 3 : Coalition troops from across the Afghan border reportedly raided a Pakistani village on Wednesday, and according to the Governor of Pakistan''s North West Frontier Province (NWFP), Owais Ahmed Ghani, at least 20 people have been killed.

Ghani was quoted as saying in a statement that "Innocent citizens of Pakistan including women and children were martyred."

Kabul - A suicide bomber attacked a convoy of international troops in Kabul, killing only himself, while dozens of Taliban militants were killed in firefights with Afghan and international forces elsewhere, officials said Saturday.

A bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near a convoy of international forces in Pajhman, on the western outskirts of Kabul on Saturday morning, killing himself but causing no casualties among the NATO soldiers, provincial police chief Mohammad Ayoub Salangi said.

London, Aug 29 : Fears are mounting across the West that Russia may restrict oil deliveries to Western Europe in the coming days, in response to the threat of EU sanctions and NATO naval actions in the Black Sea.

Any such move would be a dramatic escalation of the Georgia crisis and play havoc with the oil markets, The Telegraph reported.

Reports have begun to circulate in Moscow that Russian oil companies are under orders from the Kremlin to prepare for a supply cut to Germany and Poland through the Druzhba (Friendship) pipeline. It is believed that executives from lead-producer LUKoil have been put on weekend alert.

Brussels - The deployment of four NATO warships in the Black Sea was planned more than a year ago and has nothing to do with the latest developments in nearby Georgia, the alliance said Thursday.

The statement from Brussels follows expressions of concern by Russian officials at what they call a "buildup" of NATO ships in the area.

"This deployment is routine in nature and has been planned for over a year, notification of the requirement to transit the Turkish Straits was given in June, well before the current Georgia crisis and is completely unrelated," NATO said.

Brussels - NATO's 26 member states on Wednesday called on Russia to reverse its recognition of the independence of two breakaway Georgian regions, warning Moscow that Georgia's security and stability were "important" to the alliance.

The North Atlantic Council, which brings together the ambassadors of NATO's 26 member states, "condemns the decision of the Russian Federation to extend recognition to the South Ossetia and Abkhazia regions of Georgia and calls upon Russia to reverse its decision," a statement from NATO's Brussels HQ said.

London, Aug 27 : The situation in Russia is reflective of the crisis on the eve of World War I according to Nato ambassador, Dmitry Rogozin.

According to the Mirror, Rogozin said that the current atmosphere reminded him of the situation in Europe in 1914.

The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has stated "We''re not afraid of anything, including the prospect of a Cold War," following the Kremlin’s declaration of South Ossetia and Abkhazia as sovereign countries