International Monetary Fund is warning any mishandling of the Greek debt crisis could hurt Europe's (financial) future. IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn said today the world's confidence in the Euro-Zone is at risk and that every day that countries delay helping Greece makes the situation worse. Strauss-Kahn traveled to Berlin with European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet for talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on the Greek debt (crisis). Greece has already asked to access a joint European Union-IMF aid package worth as much as $60 billion. But some European officials said today the cost of the bailout could eventually jump to about $160 billion over three years. At least 12 civilians, including women and children, have been killed by a roadside bomb in eastern Afghanistan. Officials said the improvised bomb struck a passenger (vehicle) today in the Tani district of Khost province. In southern Afghanistan, officials say a tribal leader was killed today in the Arghandab district of Kandahar province. Afghan citizens and officials have marked the 18th anniversary of the end of a Soviet-backed Communist regime that ruled Afghanistan. Afghan leaders held a military parade and a (ceremony) at a stadium in Kabul today. Police say a suicide car bomber has attacked a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least four police (officers). Authorities say the attacker blew up his car today at a checkpoint on the outskirts of Peshawar. At least eight people were wounded in the blast. An Egyptian court has sentenced 26 men to prison on charges of plotting attacks on tourists and commercial sites. The men were accused of belonging to a cell of the Lebanese (militant) group, Hezbollah. VOA's Elizabeth Arrott has more from Cairo. The prisoners maintained their innocence throughout the trial, saying they were just trying to help Hamas, the Hezbollah ally in the Palestinian Gaza Strip across the Egyptian border. But prosecutors argued successfully that the men had spied on ships in the Suez Canal and on tourist sites with the aim of launching strikes against them. Those convicted include Egyptian, Palestinian, Lebanese and Sudanese citizens. Four were tried in absentia and remain at large. When the defendants were arrested one year ago, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah conceded he’d sent an operative to organize a small cell in Egypt, but (denied) there were plans for attacks inside the country. Expectation in Egypt was high that the sentences might have been harsher with at least some of the defendants sentenced to death, given the seriousness of the charges and the political atmosphere surrounding them. The alleged (targets) of the plots, tourism and the canal, are major revenue earners. Elizabeth Arrott, VOA News, Cairo. The Somali insurgent group al-Shabab has issued what is believed to be a threat to the editor of VOA's Somali service and his counterpart at the BBC. Speaking at a Mogadishu mosque last Friday, an al-Shabab official labeled VOA editor Abdi Yabarow and BBC editor Yusuf Gara Omar as murtadeen, or one who abandons the Islamic faith. The official apparently did not make a direct call for (violence), but al-Shabab loyalists have been known to target people labeled as murtadeen. At least one soldier is dead, at least 15 wounded after a confrontation outside Bangkok. As we hear from VOA's Ron Corben. The outbreak of violence between anti-government Red Shirt protesters and military (occurred) at mid-afternoon on Wednesday, when a Red Shirt protest convoy of some 100 vehicles and motorbikes was confronted by army barricades in the suburbs north of Bangkok. Up to 2,000 protesters had left the main rally site near a major retail and hotel district, aiming to travel to Bangkok's outskirts. The Red Shirts said they were preparing to expand their protests beyond the main site at the Rajaprasong intersection, where they have been camped since April 4. Reports said riot squads fired into the air in a bid to push the protesters back. But when several protesters moved in to remove barbed wire, (soldiers) fired directly at the protesters. Troops had been told to use rubber bullets but had the authority to use live ammunition for self-defense. Protesters were reported firing home-made bamboo rockets at the troops. Ron Corben for VOA News, Bangkok. On Wall Street, US stock indices are mixed at this hour. I'm David DeForest, VOA News. More news on the Internet at voanews.com.