WORLD BRIEFS

Iran

Confessions in scientist killings

Iranian state television on Sunday broadcast purported confessions by more than a dozen suspects in connection with the killing of five nuclear scientists since 2010. The broadcast showed some of the suspects re-enacting the assassinations in different districts of the capital Tehran. Iran says the attacks are part of a covert campaign by Israel and the West to sabotage its nuclear program, which the U.S. and its allies suspect is aimed at producing nuclear weapons. Iran denies that suspicion.

Spain

Terror suspects charged

Two Russians suspected of plotting a terror attack in Europe were charged in Spain on Sunday with belonging to an unnamed terror organization and possession of explosives, and placed in indefinite detention. The court named the Russians of Chechen descent as Eldar Magomedov and Mohamed Ankari Adamov and said there was evidence linking them with "belonging to or forming part of a terrorist organization." The terror group was not specified, but Spanish authorities previously said it was al-Qaida.

>Afghanistan

Taliban ambush kills 6

Taliban insurgents killed two New Zealand soldiers and four Afghan intelligence officers Saturday in an ambush in the central province of Bamiyan. The intelligence officers had received a report of explosives stockpiled in the Baghak area of Shibar district and mounted an operation to seize them, said Abdul Rahman Ahmadi, spokesman for Bamiyan's governor. Ten intelligence officers, an Afghan police officer and a civilian were wounded.

-- AP