Gaza - Extending an olive branch to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas ahead of unity talks in Cairo next month, the Islamic Hamas movement released 17 members of the president's Fatah movement it had detained in the Gaza Strip in July.

The 17 were among dozens of Fatah activists arrested by Hamas police after a car bomb killed five Hamas members in Western Gaza City in late July.

Stockholm - Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt hosted Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Thursday, and discussed the fallout of the recent war between Georgia and Russia.

Reinfeldt noted that Sweden has pledged large sums to Georgia and contributed personnel to a European Union monitoring team.

The Swedish premier told reporters that Stockholm did not feel Russia had fulfilled all the terms in agreements signed after the August war between the Caucasus nation and Russia.

Vatican City - Secret Vatican archives on Pope Pius XII's controversial World War II pontificate will not be made public for at least another "six or seven years," the papal spokesman said Thursday.

"Before then, it is unrealistic to think (they) will be made accessible to researchers," Father Federico Lombardi was quoted as saying by the ANSA news agency.

Jammu, Oct 30 : At least six persons were killed and 29 others injured today in a tragic road accident in Doda District of Jammu and Kashmir.

The accident occurred about six kilometers from Doda town when a passenger bus plunged down a 250 foot deep ravine on the bank of river Chenab on its way to Doda.

The overcrowded private bus had left Kishtawar for Doda at around 2 p. m. and veered off the highway while approaching Doda.

Six persons were reportedly killed on the spot, while 29 others were injured, 10 of them critically.