the New York Times

An unidentified man threw a hand grenade at the US embassy in the Montenegrin capital Podgorica late on Wednesday night, before committing suicide using another explosive device.

The embassy was closed at the time of the attack and local media reported that no one else was hurt and that there was no significant damage to the embassy's compound.

On Wednesday, 12 civilians were killed and 16 wounded in an American airstrike in Dasht-e-Bari, an area of the city Pul-e-Alam, the capital of Logar province, according to Afghan broadcaster 1TV.

US media also reported on the incident, saying that 11 civilians were killed, including eight women.

Veteran New York Times correspondent Rod Nordland was briefly detained by border officials in Turkey as he arrived on Jan. 17 at Istanbul's Ataturk Airport, before being forced to take a flight back to London, with no explanation given as to why he had been refused entry into the country.

FBI agents have arrested a Volkswagen executive on conspiracy charges in relation to the "diesel-gate" emissions-cheating scandal, The New York Times reported on Jan. 9.

The United States has sent a warning to Beijing about Chinese agents it says are operating covertly in the United States to pressure fugitives, including some suspected of corruption, to return to China, the New York Times reported on Aug. 16. 

Many Sephardic Jews in Turkey are now applying for Spanish citizenship in anticipation of a parliamentary bill expected to pass this month in Madrid, which would grant nationality to Jewish people who were expelled in 1492, during the Inquisition, according to a report by the New York Times on May 27.