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联合国在阿富汗的发言人说，激进分子袭击首都喀布尔的一个国际宾馆，打死至少六名联合国工作人员，另有九人受伤。地方警察说，至少有三名穿着自杀性袭击背心的枪手星期三黎明前冲进这个院落，与安全部队进行了两个小时的激战，随后他们不是引爆了炸药，就是被击毙。塔利班的一名发言人之后宣布对袭击负责，并声称这是扰乱下个月总统决选的“第一步”。激进分子还向一家豪华酒店和总统官邸发射了火箭，但是没有造成伤亡。目击者说，火箭降落在塞丽娜酒店的地面上，但是没有发生爆炸。另一枚火箭袭击了总统官邸附近的一幢建筑。

报道：美国新阿富汗战略将重点保护城市

美国媒体报导称，奥巴马总统的高级顾问团倾向于一项新的阿富汗战争战略，新战略将侧重于保护阿富汗人口最多的十个城市。这项战略将通过无人驾驶侦察飞机和特种兵部队的突袭对偏远地区的激进分子继续施压，但美军将集中主力保护中心城市、主要道路和重要农田。据报道，奥巴马尚未对这项战略作出决定，但争论焦点已经转到了要保护这些地区需要增派多少兵力。

巴基斯坦白沙瓦市汽车炸弹爆炸已致至少43人死

巴基斯坦西北部城市白沙瓦一个人口密集的集市28日遭汽车炸弹袭击。当地医疗机构人员称，目前死亡人数已上升至43人。警方称：“爆炸威力巨大，几乎在城市每个角落都能听到爆炸声。”

美国务卿：将与巴基斯坦开展更广泛关系

美国国务卿希拉里克林顿已经抵达巴基斯坦首都，她承诺美国将与巴基斯坦开展新的更广泛的关系，不局限于过去仅仅是反恐活动方面的关系。希拉里在开始与巴基斯坦高层官员进行三天会谈时说，尽管打击恐怖主义仍是一个重点任务，美国也对改善巴基斯坦的教育和增强民主和民间机构感兴趣。

盖茨促中美建立持久军事对话

美国国防部长盖茨对到访五角大楼的中国中央军委副主席徐才厚说，中美军事关系非常重要，不能因偶尔发生的分歧和争议而受到干扰。盖茨与徐才厚的会晤持续了75分钟。这也是自2006年以来中国军方最高层次的访美之行。

发改委：将坚决抑制部分行业的产能过剩

中国国家发改委周二称，中国政府将坚决抑制部分行业的产能过剩，防止新兴产业投资一哄而起，凸显了政府抑制低效投资的决心。

发改委在其网站发布公告为政府经济刺激计划进行辩护。公告称，政府经济刺激计划支持了中小企业的发展，推动了经济结构调整，改善了人民生活。

分析人士则认为，中国政府的经济刺激计划及中国银行业忽视了中小企业和私营部门，注意力仅放在基础设施项目和对国有大型企业的贷款方面。

发改委在重申官方政策的同时还表示，中央投资要进一步向民生倾斜，推动经济结构调整和发展方式转变；政府将推出政策措施鼓励和促进民间投资、缓解中小企业融资难问题。

公告还称，当前经济运行中的积极因素不断增多，企稳向好势头日趋明显。

中国中小企业贷款份额缩水

监管机构称，截至2009年9月末，银行业金融机构中小企业人民币贷款余额为人民币14.1万亿元，同比增长28%。总体银行放贷9月增长34.2%。上述数据意味著中小企业贷款占中国贷款总额的36%，占企业贷款的45%。

中国央行行长周小川今年3月表示，2008年，中小企业贷款占企业贷款的52%。因此最新数据似乎表明，今年出现猛增的银行信贷事实上是朝大型国有企业倾斜，中小企业所占份额在不断缩水。

许多学者认为，中小企业获得的银行贷款比例实际上远远低于上述水平。大多数研究表明，中小企业无法获得太多的传统银行贷款，而银行的贷款负责人也对拿不出相关证明文件、账目不清楚的中小企业戒心很重。中国国际经济交流中心副理事长郑新立告诉记者，他认为中小企业只获得了8%的银行贷款。而且其中绝大部分可能都发放给了中型企业；他说，真正的小企业可能只占银行贷款的3%。

Brother of Afghan Leader Is Said to Be on C.I.A. Payroll

Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of the Afghan president and a suspected player in the country’s booming illegal opium trade, gets regular payments from the Central Intelligence Agency, and has for much of the past eight years, according to current and former American officials.

The agency pays Mr. Karzai for a variety of services, including helping to recruit an Afghan paramilitary force that operates at the C.I.A.’s direction in and around the southern city of Kandahar, Mr. Karzai’s home.

The financial ties and close working relationship between the intelligence agency and Mr. Karzai raise significant questions about America’s war strategy, which is currently under review at the White House.

The ties to Mr. Karzai have created deep divisions within the Obama administration. The critics say the ties complicate America’s increasingly tense relationship with President Hamid Karzai, who has struggled to build sustained popularity among Afghans and has long been portrayed by the Taliban as an American puppet. The C.I.A.’s practices also suggest that the United States is not doing everything in its power to stamp out the lucrative Afghan drug trade, a major source of revenue for the Taliban.

UN approves nuclear free resolution

The United Nations has approved a draft resolution proposed by the Islamic Republic of Iran on destruction of nuclear weapons under international supervision.

The resolution was ratified at the First Committee of the UN General Assembly despite the opposition of the United States and its allies.

Based on the resolution, the UN General Assembly calls upon all nuclear countries to comply fully with all commitments made regarding nuclear disarmament and nuclear non-proliferation and not to act in any way that might compromise either cause or lead to a new nuclear arms race.

It also asks member states to take the necessary measures to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons in all its aspects and to promote nuclear disarmament, with the objective of eliminating nuclear weapons.

The assembly stressed that Israel join the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and allow its nuclear installations to come under supervision of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

The United State, France, United Kingdom and Israel voted against the resolution.

Iraq to rebuild Saddam-era reactors

Iraq is reportedly lobbying for approval to rebuild its nuclear reactors, 19 years after their destruction by British and American war planes under Saddam Hussein.

The Iraqi government has approached the French nuclear industry about the reconstruction of at least one of the reactors that was bombed at the start of the first Persian Gulf war in 1991, British paper The Guardian said on Tuesday.

Baghdad has also contacted the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the United Nations to seek ways to extricate itself from resolutions that bar Iraq's resumption of its nuclear activity.

"We are co-operating with the IAEA and expanding and defining areas of research where we can implement nuclear technology for peaceful means," Science and Technology Minister Raid Fahmi told The Guardian.

The minister explained the decision was taken due to a mounting need for nuclear technology years after the US-led invasion of Iraq that left the country without an industry.

"This was raised several months ago with the relevant bodies," Fahmi said.

The Arab nation has 'only peaceful applications' in mind for a nuclear program, 'including the health sector, agriculture … and water treatment', he insisted.

Iraq originally had three reactors, known as Tamuz 1, Tamuz 2 and Tamuz 14, all located in the Tuwaitha nuclear research center south of Baghdad which also included a nuclear waste management facility. One of the three, a French-made reactor, was destroyed in a 1981 Israeli bombing raid.

Alleged possession of nuclear arms and weapons of mass destruction accounted in the most part for the 2003 invasion of Iraq led by the United States and Britain.

Old electricity networks and water distribution system, unproductive service sectors, including science and technology, and failure to meet the massive needs at home make relatively cheap and efficient nuclear energy an appealing alternative.