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Pakistan: Bombs

PARACHINAR — Roadside bombs struck two vehicles in Pakistan's volatile northwest Sunday, killing a former irrigation minister and three others in one attack and two anti-Taliban tribal elders in the other.

Public officials and private citizens combatting the growing Taliban-led insurgency in Pakistan have been frequent targets in a wave of violence that has killed more than 600 people in the past two-and-a-half months.

Mexico: Capture

MEXICO CITY — The capture of a reputed kingpin following the death of his brother has knocked out most of a brutal drug trafficking dynasty after a Mexican crackdown on corruption stripped the Beltran Leyva cartel of many snitches within security forces.

Carlos Beltran Leyva was arrested in the Pacific coast state Sinaloa, where he and several of his brothers were born and allegedly started their gang. A judge ordered him held for at least 40 days while officials investigate possible charges of organized crime, the Attorney General's Office said in a statement Sunday.

His capture came just two weeks after his brother Arturo, known as "the boss of bosses" of the cartel, was killed in a shootout with marines at a luxury apartment in the city of Cuernavaca.

Serbia: Arrest

BELGRADE — Serbian police have arrested a war crimes suspect wanted for the killing of at least 19 civilians in eastern Bosnia and other atrocities of the 1992-95 war.

The war crimes prosecutor's office says Darko Jankovic was apprehended Sunday.

Spokesman Bruno Vekaric says Jankovic is "potentially linked to horrendous crimes," including the killing of Muslim civilians near the Bosnian town of Zvornik in 1992.

Switzerland: Avalanches

BERN — At least four people were killed in two separate avalanche incidents Sunday in the Swiss Alps, police said.

A group of skiers was hit by an avalanche shortly before midday in the Diemtig Valley about 25 miles south of the capital Bern, police in Bern canton said.

Rescuers who came to their aid were then hit by a second avalanche at the same spot, police said.

Tajikistan: Earthquake