Belgrade  - A day before the International Roma day, some 40 Roma aimed to spend another night outside Belgrade's city hall in an ongoing drama after their "unhygienic neighborhood" was torn down.

Roma families living in cardboard slums in the posh New Belgrade district were evicted from their houses last weekend and their homes - located in front of the new buildings built for the participants of the upcoming International Student Games - were torn down.

Jerusalem  - Israeli border policemen shot and fatally wounded an East Jerusalem Palestinian who tried to run them over during the demolition of a house in the village of Sur Bakher Tuesday afternoon.

The incident happened as border police and soldiers from the army's Home Front Command were destroying the home of a Sur Bakher resident who intentionally ran amok with a bulldozer and killed three people in West Jerusalem last July.

Kunduz, Afghanistan  - A German military base in Afghanistan came under rocket fire shortly after a visit by German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Monday.

Two missiles were fired at the facility in the northern city of Kunduz, just 20 minutes after the chancellor left, a government spokesman said in Berlin.

The missiles landed outside the perimeter fence and caused no casualties or damage.

L'Aquila, Italy  - The death toll from the heavy earthquake that struck central Italy early Monday had gone beyond 150, far higher than the last previous accounts, the Ansa news agency reported.

The temblor struck the ancient town of L'Aquila and the surrounding mountainous areas about 100 kilometres north-east of Rome in the early hours of Monday.

The agency cited hospitals in the quake-struck region north-east of the capital Rome in reporting the figure, which was well up on the previous toll of at least 90 people killed.

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