World highlights

¤ A suicide bomber killed 35 Pakistani soldiers at an army training ground in an attack the military said was linked to a bloody army assault on a militant camp last week. The blast, the most serious militant attack against the Pakistani military, took place in the town of Dargai, in North West Frontier Province.

¤ Sri Lanka's Tamil Tiger rebels said 45 civilians were killed and 125 hurt when army artillery fire hit a camp for internally displaced, as renewed civil war deepens. The military said the Tigers had been firing at military camps in the restive east since early morning, wounding five soldiers, and that troops had retaliated with artillery and mortar fire, but had no details of any civilian casualties.

¤ The US ambassador in Baghdad said President George W. Bush would work with Democrats to achieve success in Iraq, but Iraqis were doubtful Democrat election gains would bring any respite from violence. Seeking to reassure Iraqi leaders there would be no major policy change after Bush's Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives, envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said: "The president is the architect of US foreign policy."

¤ Kyrgyzstan's parliament voted to adopt a new constitution reducing the president's powers, defusing a political crisis that had threatened the Central Asian state's fragile stability. "The constitution of the Kyrgyz parliament has been adopted," parliament speaker Marat Sultanov said after the 67 members of parliament present in the 75-seat chamber passed the vote in two readings.