Wolesi Jirga or the lower house of Afghan National Assembly has decided to send a fact finding commission to the southern Kandahar province and investigate civilian casualties inflicted by NATO airstrikes in Panjwai district, a state-run newspaper reported Tuesday.

Nepali government and guerillas have reached a concrete understanding on arms management following the several rounds of informal talks between the two sides, local media on Tuesday.

Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov was re-elected in a run-off election against Volen Siderov, leader of the nationalist Attack party, Bulgaria's Central Electoral Commission announced on Monday.

Two American soldiers were killed in Baghdad in two attacks on Monday, the U.S. military said on Tuesday.

Vietnam welcomes the unanimous decision of the Asian group in the United Nations which endorsed Vietnam to be the only candidate of the continent for the post of UN Security Council (UNSC) non-permanent member in 2008-2009 term, said a Vietnamese spokesperson.

The Nepali government has recently decided to release 50 million Nepali rupees (684,931 US dollars) to support logistics for the proposed Metropolitan Police in the capital Kathmandu Valley, a leading newspaper, The Kathmandu Post reported on Tuesday.

The Plenary session of the on-going Myanmar constitutional national convention has adopted detailed basic principles for three chapters to be included in drafting a new state constitution.

Greece and South Africa on Monday signed a bilateral scientific and technological cooperation agreement.

The total amount of money in corruption cases and economic wrongdoings detected in Vietnam's ministries, sectors and localities nationwide so far this year has been nearly 510 million U.S. dollars, local media reported Tuesday. The money includes 7,909 billion Vietnamese dong (VND) (497.4 million dollars), 9.6 million dollars, and over 0.5 million euro ( more than 0.6 million dollars), of which 421.8 billion VND (26.5 million dollars) and 4.2 million dollars) were detected in corruption cases in nine ministries and sectors, Young People newspaper quoted a report of the Government Inspectorate as saying.

The UN special envoy to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) confirmed on Monday that a UN helicopter made a forced landing in the country's northeastern district of Ituri but there were no casualties.