A missile attack launched by a drone aircraft killed at least five people and wounded several more near a madrasa-run by pro-Al Qaeda Mujahideen in Pakistan's volatile Waziristan region, witnesses said.

The Russian Air Force is prepared to cooperate with Georgia in investigating the alleged violation of its airspace, Russia's Air Force commander said Saturday.

The president of the UN Security Council says the council wants more information before it holds an emergency meeting on Georgian allegations that Russia launched a missile attack on Georgian territory.

The commander of Russian peacekeeping forces in Georgia says Russian troops have not been able to identify the missile that landed in Georgian territory on August 6 near the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

The Iranian parliament called on its government to "harshly react" to a Russian proposal on the placement in Azerbaijan of a key component in a joint U.S.-Russian antimissile radar system.

U.S. President George W. Bush says Russia poses no threat to Europe, despite a warning by Moscow to target the continent if the United States deploys elements of a missile shield in Central Europe.

Poland and the United States have opened talks about a plan to station some U.S. anti-missile defenses in Poland. The talks Thursday in the Polish capital, Warsaw, involve a U.S. assistant secretary of state and follow lower-level discussions earlier in May.

Poland and the United States have opened formal talks on a controversial U.S. plan to place part of a U.S. missile defense system on Polish soil. A U.S. State Department senior advisor, Robert Loftis, met Monday in Warsaw with Polish defense officials.

Poland and the United States were opening their first formal talks Monday on Washington's contentious request to place part of a new missile defense system in Poland, the U.S. Embassy said.

A rocket attack this morning in the Afghan capital, Kabul, killed one man and wounded five people, including a small boy, RFE/RL's Radio Free Afghanistan reported. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry said the missile struck near a building complex in Kabul's east. It is not known who may have been behind the attack.

Russia warned that it could target some of the U.S. missile defense systems that Washington wants to deploy in Poland and Czech Republic, the Interfax news agency reported.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is trying to ease Russia's strong objections to Washington's plans to extend an anti-missile defense system into Central and Eastern Europe. VOA's Lisa McAdams reports Gates is meeting with Russian officials in Moscow.