Islamabad - Jets from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization on Sunday bombed hills in Pakistan's Khyber tribal district, killing at least five people, Pakistani authorities quoting locals said.

The attack took place in Morga area in the remote Tirah valley, located close to the volatile Afghan border.

"The airstrike killed at least five people from the Qambar Khel tribe, while four or five more were wounded," an official in the area told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on condition of anonymity.

Gaza - Hamas will not implement a long-term truce with Israel for the time being, a senior official of the Islamist organization said Sunday.

The offer "was not cancelled," Mahmoud al-Zahar said, but added that there was "no room to implement it for the time being" since "there is no one to talk about this proposal with on the other (Israeli) side."

He said a long-term truce was "a project that can be developed when there are intentions."

Berlin - Riot police clashed with 700 protesters Sunday in the north of Germany as the anti-nuclear movement tried to disrupt a shipment of spent radioactive fuel to a long-term storage site.

Elsewhere, wiring and signal gear along German railway lines was set on fire. Though most of the attacks were anonymous, police said it was likely the sabotage was the work of anti-nuclear militants.

As during 10 previous shipments of waste to Gorleben, a small town south of Hamburg, protesters aimed to obstruct the freight train carrying the waste.

New Delhi - More than 6,000 high-ranking Muslim scholars and clerics from across India have put their name to a joint religious opinion, or fatwa, against terrorism issued by one of the world's most important centres of Islamic teaching, it emerged on Sunday.

The Darul Uloom in Deoband, north of Delhi, issued a fatwa on May 31 sharply condemning terrorist violence. Since then 6,000 scholars and clerics have endorsed the fatwa.

Dhaka - Bangladesh election authorities on Sunday extended the deadline for submission of nomination papers for the December general election by a week, in apparent response to requests by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party.

The deadline has been extended until November 20.

"Although the submission date has been extended, the election date will be unchanged," Election Commissioner Sohul Hossain told reporters after the meeting, saying that the election commission has made every preparation for December 18 balloting.

Bolzano, Italy - Some 3,500 marksmen have held a protest "against fascism" and have demanded that relics from the era of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini be removed from buildings in the city of Bolzano in the German-speaking part of northern Italy.

The protest, held Saturday, was the largest ever held in the area, Suedtirol Online reported Sunday.

The marksmen have been committed to defending their Tyrolean identity in South Tyrol, also known in Italy as Bolzano-Bozen, since 1919.