BAGHDAD - AT LEAST 25 people were killed and 50 wounded in a suicide bomb attack as a Kurdish family was receiving condolences northeast of the Iraqi capital on Monday, local officials said.

The attack took place in Jalawla, 130 kilometres from Baghdad.

ISLAMABAD - A GOVERNMENT official says a suicide bomber has blown himself up close to a police station in the Pakistani capital, killing himself and two officers.

The blast late Monday was heard throughout downtown Islamabad.

SIDON (Lebanon) - A TOP Palestinian official and three other people were killed in a roadside bombing outside a restive refugee camp in southern Lebanon on Monday.

Senior Palestine Liberation Organisation official Kamal Medhat, two of his bodyguards and another Palestinian official were travelling in a convoy when the bomb exploded at the entrance to the Mieh Mieh camp near the coastal town of Sidon, an army spokesman told AFP.