Russia's foreign ministry said Tuesday it had summoned the US embassador for an explanation following the detention in Moscow of an alleged American CIA spy. A foreign ministry spokeswoman said US Ambassador Michael McFaul will be summoned on Wednesday after the brief detention of a US agent identified as Ryan C. Fogle. zak/sjw

Investigators are pursuing other "persons of interest" who may be linked to the deadly bombings at the Boston Marathon, US lawmakers said Sunday. "There are still persons of interest in the United States that the FBI would like to have conversations with," Representative Mike Rogers, Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told ABC's "This Week." He declined to provide a number. Dutch Ruppersberger, the top Democrat on the committee, concurred, telling ABC: "We're looking at phone calls before and after the bombing."

A secret deal between the ISI and the CIA over drone strikes is the subject of a new book by Mark Mazzeti, “Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army and a War at the Ends of the Earth”. The Pakistan army would agree to the strikes but first the CIA had to kill their enemy number one, Nek Muhammad, the elusive militant who had been carrying out deadly attacks against the army. The CIA kills him in 2004 and as a result is allowed to start the drone programme, says the book.

Two persons including a police official were injured in exchange of fire during CIA’s raid on a house here Wednesday.According to details CIA police conducted a raid on a house in Kachra road on the outskirts here today. An exchange of fire took place between CIA and proclaimed offender. In exchange of fire a Police official Abdul Qadir and proclaimed offender Allah Noor were injured.