World datelines

Afghanistan

KABUL — A senior NATO official likened the tactics of Taliban militants who hide among civilians to those of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Tuesday. U.S. and Afghan forces killed an al-Qaida suspect disguised as a woman during a raid.

Brazil

BRASILIA — Former Paraguayan dictator Gen. Alfredo Stroessner, 93, has dropped to under 100 pounds and is in fragile condition in the intensive care ward of a Brazilian hospital, suffering from pneumonia, doctors said Tuesday.

Britain

LONDON — The 306 British soldiers who were executed by the military for cowardice during World War I will be pardoned, the Defense Ministry said Tuesday, following a lengthy campaign by the family of one such soldier.

China

BEIJING — The death toll from China's strongest typhoon in five decades jumped to 295 on Tuesday and was expected to climb higher as scores of bodies of fishermen and sailors were found at sea, a state news agency reported.

Egypt

CAIRO — Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz, 94, has been moved to intensive care at a Cairo hospital, an official said Tuesday, describing his condition as "unstable."

Germany

BERLIN — The head of Germany's main Jewish organization has criticized writer Guenter Grass for waiting decades to reveal that he had served during World War II in the Waffen-SS, the Nazis' dreaded military force.

India

NEW DELHI — India deployed tens of thousands of police to patrol major cities and posted sharpshooters on rooftops Tuesday as the country marked 59 years of independence under a terror alert.

Indonesia

BANDA ACEH — Thousands of protesters accused Indonesia's government Tuesday of failing to deliver on promises made when separatist rebels signed an agreement a year ago to end decades of fighting in Aceh province.

Japan