Gunfire and explosions rocked the capital of Guinea-Bissau early Friday as soldiers launched an apparent coup attempt.

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Guinea-Bissau troops in apparent coup

There is confusion over the whereabouts of Guinea-Bissau’s Prime Minister, Carlos Gomes Junior, after soldiers launched an apparent coup.

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Confusion over Guinea-Bissau PM

At least eight soldiers and three militants have been killed in an attack by militants on an army checkpoint in central Yemen, officials say.

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Attack in central Yemen kills 11

Pakistan’s military resumes a search for 135 people, including 124 soldiers, buried by an avalanche in the disputed Kashmir region.

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Pakistan avalanche search resumes

A leader of the Colombian left-wing Farc rebel group denies claims the movement has been weakened, as it kills six soldiers at a military checkpoint.

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Farc leader: ‘We’re not weakened’

An avalanche smashed into a Pakistani army base on a Himalayan glacier along the Indian border on Saturday, burying around 100 soldiers, the military said.

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Avalanche Buries 100 Pakistani Soldiers on Glacier

Tuareg rebels who overran much of northern Mali after disaffected soldiers toppled the government in the south declared an independent state called Azawad on Friday.

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Mali Rebels Proclaim Independent State in North

Seven Venezuelan soldiers on anti-drug operations are killed in a helicopter crash in Apure state.

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Venezuelan soldiers die in crash

Of attacks on French soldiers and Jewish school.

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Al Jazeera Has Video of Shootings

They are students at one of Russia’s elite military academies. But as Sergey Kozmin’s photographs from his “Girl Soldiers” show, they are also little girls.

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Lens Blog: Photos of an Elite Russian Military School for Young Girls

Former MP George Galloway claims six soldiers killed together in Afghanistan, including five from Yorkshire, “died in vain”.

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Bomb blast troops ‘died in vain’

CAMP BONIFAS, S. Korea — President Obama made his first visit to Korea’s demilitarized zone Sunday, telling U.S. troops that the contrast between South and North Korea “could not be starker.” Addressing 50 U.S. soldiers in the mess hall at this U.N. command post, Obama thanked them for their service at “freedom’s frontier” on the divided peninsula. Read full article > >

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Obama visits Korea’s demilitarized zone

That killed 24 Pakistani soldiers.

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No Charges in NATO Airstrike

The murder of four at a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, the worst act of anti-Semitic violence since 1982, was a tragedy. And yet, there was also an aspect of this killing which, up to now, has been largely overlooked. As the New York Times reported , French President Nicolas Sarkozy “has sent gendarmes and riot police officers to guard all Jewish and Muslim schools and places of worship until the killer is stopped.” Other media, pointing to the same gun being used in other murders over the past week or so, have speculated that the killer may be a serial killer – one whose victims also include French Muslim soldiers headed to Afghanistan. So here is the puzzle. French Jews and Muslims have made common cause against this extremist, even as Middle Eastern Jews and Muslims are at each others’ throats. So whether Jews and Muslims are allies or enemies seemingly depends on the quirks of geography. The same Muslim with whom I, a Jew, am allied in France becomes my fearsome enemy in the Middle East. This makes sense?

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Ending the Muslim-Jewish Blame Game

KABUL — The police officers had been told to be vigilant. They had been warned that protests could occur spontaneously and could again turn deadly, as they had for two days after U.S. military officials burned a pile of Korans . Read full article > >

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In Kabul, Afghan police sympathize with protesters angry over Koran burning