PAKISTAN: An officer who was critically wounded in a roadside bombing that targeted police assigned to protect polio vaccination workers in north-west Pakistan died in a hospital today, raising the death toll from the attack, claimed by the Pakistani Taliban, to seven.

Police said at least three officers remained in critical condition after Monday’s bombing in the district of Mamund, a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan.

IRAN: A Danish appeals court today upheld guilty verdicts for three members of an Iranian separatist group convicted of promoting terror in Iran and gathering information for an unnamed Saudi intelligence service.