Bombings

A car bomb critically wounded the head of the state panel that licenses and disciplines doctors, detonating in his driveway as he was leaving for work, authorities said. West Memphis police said they had no idea why someone would target Dr. Trent P. Pierce, chairman of the Arkansas State Medical Board. Pierce, a family physician, lost one eye in the explosion and suffered severe burns to his face and shrapnel wounds.

Police clashed with leftist opponents of a march by about 6,000 right-wingers marking the anniversary of the Allied bombing of Dresden during World War II. A police spokesman said the leftists tipped over two police vehicles and threw bottles and rocks as authorities struggled to keep the two groups separated. Several police officers and demonstrators were injured and some people were detained, but details were not available, the spokesman said. A third group held a largely peaceful march in Dresden to mark the Feb. 13-14, 1945, bombings by British and American aircraft that killed an estimated 25,000 people.

A bomb killed four South Korean tourists and their guide, officials said, the latest such attack targeting foreigners visiting a country that has both famous historic sites and a strong Al Qaeda presence. The attack occurred as the tourists were posing for photographs near the ancient fortress city of Shibam, Yemeni security officials said. A Yemeni guide was also killed in the attack, which wounded four foreigners and an unspecified number of Yemenis.

An anti-Castro Cuban militant was indicted in connection with 1997 bombings that targeted tourist spots in Cuba. Luis Posada Carriles, a former CIA operative and U.S. Army soldier, was indicted by a federal grand jury in El Paso on 11 counts, including perjury. Posada, 81, had previously been indicted on six counts, including immigration fraud and lying to federal authorities in a bid to become a U.S. citizen. Cuban authorities have long accused him of orchestrating the bombings as well as a deadly 1976 bombing of a Cuban jetliner.

While Thai authorities are preoccupied with riots in the capital, a 5-year-old Muslim uprising in the south of the country is intensifying, and Thailand's troubled government and army are at odds over how to deal with it. The bombings, shootings and beheadings show no signs of quieting. Machine gun-mounted Humvees scour for roadside bombs, soldiers sweep through villages suspected of harboring the insurgents, and helicopters clatter above an idyllic, tropical landscape over which authorities have cast a security net more dense in terms of area and population than in Iraq.

Families of terrorism victims joined royalty and lawmakers to unveil a memorial of 52 steel pillars in London's Hyde Park -- one for each victim of the July 7, 2005, attacks on the city's transit system. "I believe the date of the London bombings is etched vividly on all our minds as a brutal intrusion into the lives of thousands of people," Prince Charles told those gathered for the event. Some relatives of those who died left a single white or red rose next to a memorial plaque as the names of all those killed were read aloud.

A bomb attached to a bicycle killed five people in southern Iraq, and at least five others were killed in violence across the country, police said. The bloodshed comes as Iraqi lawmakers intensify negotiations over a new election law that many hope will hasten the end of political gridlock over control of oil-rich Kirkuk. Police said a bicycle exploded at a produce market near Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad, killing five. Two people were killed in bombings in the western city of Ramadi, and three died in a blast in the southern city of Karbala.

Peace activists from across the nation gathered in Las Vegas to mark the 60th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. About 400 people attended a conference titled "Many Stories, One Vision for a Nuclear-Free World," which included speeches focused on peace and the elimination of nuclear weapons. Peace demonstrations were held at the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico, at the Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons lab in California and at the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn.

Bombing charges that could carry the death penalty for Unabomber suspect Theodore J. Kaczynski are likely to be brought in federal court here by the end of the month, according to federal law enforcement sources. Even before trial, the 54-year-old former UC Berkeley math professor is likely to be indicted in other states as well for crimes stemming from the Unabomber's coast-to-coast trail of violence.

Even before they searched Theodore J. Kaczynski's remote Montana cabin, federal agents had established a series of links between him and the series of Unabomber explosions, including a probable DNA match using saliva from two canceled postage stamps, according to court documents unsealed Thursday.