A sixth suspect was jailed and two senior regional officials were removed from office Friday as Turkish authorities expanded their investigation into the murder of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink.

A small homemade bomb exploded outside two adjacent bank branches in downtown Athens overnight, slightly damaging the banks but causing no injuries, police said Friday.

The BBC says former Russian security officer Aleksandr Litvinenko, who died two months ago in London, may have survived a first attempt to poison him with radioactive polonium-210 in mid-October.

Russian news agencies report that a local television journalist was found dead today in the far eastern city of Vladivostok.

Turkey's semiofficial Anatolia news agency has quoted a chief prosecutor as saying a teenager detained over the slaying of ethnic Armenian journalist Hrant Dink has confessed to the killing.

Former Federation Council member Igor Izmestyev was detained on January 16 in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, Russia's "Kommersant" daily reported today.

Russian Prosecutor-General Yury Chaika said today British investigators probing the death of former Russian intelligence officer Aleksandr Litvinenko have asked to return to Moscow.

Greek police are examining accounts from 10 people who witnessed an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Athens early Friday, state-run NET TV said Saturday.

U.S. President George Bush says he wishes Saddam Hussein's execution had been more dignified. VOA White House Correspondent Scott Stearns reports, Mr. Bush discussed the controversy surrounding that hanging with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

An Iraqi official says the person suspected to have secretly recorded video of Saddam Hussein's execution on a mobile phone camera has been arrested. Bush administration officials say the United States raised concerns about the manner of the execution.

Police in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, are reported to have found 45 dead bodies.

In Uganda, the government is reportedly blocking the release of a report of an investigation into the assassination of former rebel leader Andrew Kayira.