Uzbekistan havoc enters fourth day

TASHKENT, Uzbekistan - Violence flared for a fourth day in this Central Asian country as a suspected Islamic militant blew himself up Wednesday night during a confrontation with police, according to local journalists and police.

Russia's ITAR-Tass news agency reported two hostages had been freed unharmed, citing police at the scene.

Unconfirmed reports of other explosions in the capital, Tashkent, spread throughout the evening as Uzbek authorities tried to restore order after a series of suicide bombings and attacks that have killed dozens.

MADRID - Spanish authorities issued international arrest warrants Wednesday for six fugitives in last month's train bombings.

Judge Juan del Olmo issued the warrants for five Moroccans and a Tunisian implicated in the bombings that killed 191 people March 11, court officials said. Three of the wanted men have relatives among the 21 detained suspects.

The suspects already in custody include the top plotters, several bombers and the bombmaker, a Moroccan with a university degree in chemistry who trained at an al-Qaida camp in Afghanistan, police say.

MANILA, The Philippines - The Philippine police said Wednesday that they had arrested two more people suspected of belonging to an Islamic extremist group that, according to the government, was plotting large-scale terror attacks here.

The police said that the two suspected militants are members of an Abu Sayyaf death squad intent on sowing terror in Manila, the capital. On Tuesday, President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo announced the arrest of four people suspected of being members of Abu Sayyaf who, the government said, were planning to attack shopping malls and Manila's railway system with explosives.

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