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A leader of the ruling General People’s Congress (GPC) party told AFP that Saleh was “lightly wounded in the back of his head.”

In an audio statement broadcast late Friday on state television, Saleh who was being treated at the defence ministry hospital in Sanaa said, “I am well, in good health,” and added that the bombardment had killed seven people.

Opposition groups called for the “immediate resignation of President Bashar al-Assad from all functions he occupies,” in a joint declaration at the end of a two-day meeting in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort of Antalya.

They urged the holding of “parliamentary and presidential elections within a period that will not exceed one year” following Assad’s ouster and vowed to work “to bring down the regime.”

Blatter, 75, was given a free run at another four-year term following the withdrawal on Sunday of Asian football chief Mohamed bin Hammam, who was later suspended amid claims he tried to bribe voters with cash-filled envelopes.

Delegates at FIFA’s 61st congress returned Blatter by a landslide of 186 votes out of 203 after an 11th-hour call for a postponement of the election by England’s Football Association ended in a crushing defeat.

“Ratko Mladic was today transferred to the Tribunal’s custody,” the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) said in a statement.

“Mladic … has been admitted to the UN detention unit in The Hague.”

Breaching the 2.0 C (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) threshold sharply increases risk of severe climate impacts, including flooding, storms, rising sea levels and species extinction, scientists have warned.

“Energy-related carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions in 2010 were the highest in history,” the Paris-based IEA said in a statement posted on its website.

Reacting to the alleged deaths of 10 children, two women and two men in an air strike on Saturday in the southern province of Helmand, Karzai said such incidents were “murdering of Afghanistan’s children and women.”

“The president called this incident a great mistake and the murdering of Afghanistan’s children and women, and on behalf of the Afghan people gives his last warning to the US troops and US officials in this regard,” his office said, adding that he “strongly condemned” the killings.

The attacker struck shortly after a meeting at the office regarding security in Taloqan, the capital of Takhar province, had finished. The Taliban claimed responsibility in what was its latest example of high-profile target selection.

The police chief, General Mohammed Daoud Daoud, was a key figure in Afghanistan’s recent history. A former military commander of Ahmad Shah Massoud’s Northern Alliance, he oversaw the siege of Kunduz, the final major battle of the US-led invasion that followed the September 11 attacks in 2001.

The ruling came amid pleas from Mladic’s family that he was too ill to be transferred to the UN court in The Hague and that he was not guilty of organising the Srebrenica massacre — the worst single atrocity in Europe since World War II — and the 44-month siege of Sarajevo.

“It has been established that Ratko Mladic’s health condition makes him fit to stand trial… We have decided the conditions for transfer have been met,” Judge Maja Kovacevic told reporters outside Serbia’s special war crimes court.

President Boris Tadic said the 69-year-old had been detained by Serbian security forces, and predicted that the capture would foster reconciliation within the war-torn Balkans.

“Today, early in the morning, we arrested Ratko Mladic,” he told reporters.