India says findings implicate Pakistan

India’s foreign ministry said authorities have handed over evidence to Pakistan linking the deadly Mumbai attacks to Pakistani “elements.”

India has blamed the November attacks that killed 164 people on Pakistani-based militants, but Pakistan has denied the accusations saying India had yet to provide definitive proof.

An official statement says Foreign Secretary Shivshankar Menon has given evidence to the Pakistani High Commissioner in New Delhi today that links the attacks to “elements in Pakistan.”

The evidence included material from the interrogation of the lone surviving gunman, details of conversations between the gunmen and their alleged handlers in Pakistan, recovered weapons and data satellite phones.

Mogadishu, Somalia

Kidnappers set journalists free

Two foreign journalists – a Briton and a Spaniard – were released in good health Sunday after nearly six weeks in captivity in Somalia, officials said.

The journalists, reporter Colin Freeman, 39, of the Sunday Telegraph and freelance photographer Jose Cendon, 34, were working on a piracy story when they were kidnapped Nov. 26.

A story published on the Sunday Telegraph’s Web site quoted Freeman as saying the pair “are absolutely fine. … We’ve absolutely no problems at all ether physically or mentally.”

Berlin

Four WWII bombs found near houses

Experts disposed of four unexploded World War II bombs in a western German city in an operation Sunday that prompted authorities to evacuate some 15,000 residents.

The bombs were found near empty houses in Osnabrueck, some of which once accommodated families of British soldiers stationed in Germany, city spokesman Sven Juergensen said.

The devices, believed to have been dropped by British planes during wartime raids, were located with the help of aerial photographs. Two of them were defused, and the other two destroyed in controlled explosions.

Authorities decided to evacuate 15,000 people from the surrounding district as a precaution.