Sana'a, Yemen  - A total of 16 suspected al-Qaeda terrorists will go on trial in Sana'a next week for a string of attacks including the killing of two Belgian tourists, a court source revealed Friday.

The 16 defendants comprise 11 Yemenis, four Syrians and a Saudi national of Yemeni origin, and will be charged with plotting attacks against foreigners, Western interests, vital state installations and oil facilities in Yemen.

Among the charges the group will face is the attack on Belgian tourists in the south-eastern province of Hadhramout in January 2008, the source, who asked anonymity, told Deutsche Presse Agentur dpa.

Brussels - US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton discussed the future of detainees in the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison with European Union officials in Brussels on Friday in the highest-level talks to date on the subject.

"I thanked the EU for working with us to determine a policy regarding detainees from Guantanamo ... If we determine that it would be appropriate for a particular detainee to be relocated, we will discuss that with our friends and partners, like the EU," she said.

Brussels - Russia could join a controversial US plan to deploy missile-defence systems in Europe which has provoked outrage in Moscow, US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said on Friday just hours before a meeting with her Russian counterpart.

"We believe that Russia and the US have the opportunity to cooperate on missile defence - on joint research, joint development, and even eventually, assuming we can reach such an agreement, joint deployment," Clinton said after talks with European Union officials in Brussels.

Brussels, Mar. 6 : Perturbed by the recent terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, US Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton has said that the situation in Pakistan is threatening, as it is facing serious internal security challenges.

Talking to NATO foreign ministers in a meeting here, Clinton compared the Lahore attack with the terror attacks on Mumbai, and termed it as an `eerie replica'of the 26/11 incident.

Brussels - NATO on Wednesday welcomed the rejection by the Afghan Independent Election Committee of calls for early elections, saying the scheduled August 20 date would give the alliance enough time to provide the necessary security during the vote.

While it is a "100 per cent Afghan decision," NATO and its secretary general "welcome this decision by the Independent Election Committee," said NATO spokesman James Appathurai.