PREAH VIHEAR, Cambodia -- Cambodia and Thailand will begin talks Monday aimed at resolving a lingering dispute over territory near an World Heritage Site temple, where more than 4,000 troops from the two sides have been deployed.

"Cambodia is not asking for U.N. intervention. We still stick to Prime Minister Hun Sen's instructions to try to solve the problem peacefully between the two sides," the minister said.

The conflict over territory surrounding the ancient Hindu temple escalated earlier this month when UNESCO approved Cambodia's application to have the complex named a World Heritage Site. Thai activists say the new status undermines Thailand's claim to the compound of a nearby Buddhist pagoda.

WARSAW, Poland -- Wanda Bulik was only 18 when a conductor approached her on a train during the height of World War II and asked her to take care of an abandoned 3-year-old Jewish boy found traveling alone.

Without hesitation, the young Catholic Pole gave up her English studies, convinced a young police officer who was in love with her to pose with her as the boy's parents and devoted the next four years to sheltering him from the Nazi Holocaust.

On Sunday, Bulik and more than 60 other Christian Poles who saved Jews were honored at a luncheon in Warsaw by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, a New York-based group devoted to helping such former rescuers in their old age.

Some 6,000 Poles have been honored by Israel's Yad Vashem memorial as Righteous Among the Nations -- more than from any other country -- and the foundation has been supporting them since 1986 with monthly stipends to pad their meager state pensions.

In recent years, it has also organized events like Sunday's to celebrate their heroism and remind them that they haven't been forgotten, despite the years of neglect during Poland's decades under communist rule.

BAGHDAD -- Iraq's election authority proposed Sunday to delay important provincial balloting in an apparent sign of frustration over a political impasse that has stalled preparations for voting planned for this fall.

The provincial election plan -- strongly backed by Washington -- would shift more political powers to regions and is viewed by Sunni Arabs as path to gain more influence over decisions by the Shiite-led government.

U.S. officials see the voting as another key step in national reconciliation.

But any prolonged setbacks could slow momentum for giving Sunnis a greater voice in political and security affairs -- considered essential to stabilize the country and maintain pressure on al-Qaida in Iraq and other militant factions.

LAREDO, Spain -- Five bombs exploded in northern Spain on Sunday causing damage but no injuries, officials said. A person, claiming to be speaking on behalf of Basque separatist group ETA, had phoned in warnings about four of the bombs.

The first detonated without warning around 5 a.m. outside a bank in the Basque town of Getxo, damaging a cash dispenser and breaking windows, the regional Interior Ministry said in Bilbao.

Five hours later, a caller warned the Basque fire service that four bombs would explode in Laredo and Noja in the neighboring province of Cantabria, the ministry said.

A bomb exploded in the sand next to Laredo's beach-front promenade at around 12:20 p.m. In Noja, two devices detonated at the beach, the first around 1 p.m., the second about an hour later near a lifeguard hut, and another bomb exploded at a golf course at about 3 p.m., according to Cantabria's regional Interior Ministry in Santander.

It had been raining and the beaches were virtually empty of people when police arrived to cordon off the areas.

Laredo and Noja have long, sandy beaches and are popular summertime destinations. Getxo, near the Basque port of Bilbao, is home to many business leaders.

KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces killed nine Afghan police Sunday, calling in airstrikes and fighting on the ground for four hours after both sides mistook the other for militants, Afghan officials said.

In a separate incident, NATO said it accidentally killed at least four Afghan civilians Saturday night. A NATO soldier also was killed in the east.

The two cases of accidental killings could further undercut popular support for the government and foreign forces operating here. President Hamid Karzai has pleaded with the U.S. and other nations fighting resurgent militants to avoid civilian casualties.

In the western province of Farah near the Iranian border, a convoy of foreign forces showed up in Anar Dara district and clashed with Afghan police, killing nine of them, said provincial Deputy Governor Younus Rasuli. He said the foreign troops had not informed local officials they were coming, and the police thought they were enemy fighters. The two sides fought from about midnight until 4 a.m. Sunday, and the foreign forces used airstrikes, Rasuli said.

The U.S.-led coalition said it was investigating the report. It said its forces, along with Afghan troops, had retaliated in defense against "a non-uniformed hostile force."

ROME -- A man beat his 4-year-old daughter's head against the stone base of a Rome monument in front of tourists and a police officer, leaving the child in a coma, police said Sunday.

Carabinieri Lt. Col. Antonello Casarsa said the man, identified as Frenchman Julien Monnet, 37, repeatedly struck the head of his daughter, Luna, against the stone of the Altar of the Nation -- a towering monument to Italy's war victims in Rome's Piazza Venezia -- after a traffic officer asked to see some identification.

Bambino Gesu pediatric hospital said the child was comatose with severe head injuries when she was admitted shortly before midnight.

"Her condition is stable but very critical," Daniela Perrotta, from the hospital's anesthesia department, told reporters outside the hospital.

A Canadian tourist had told police the man was acting strangely toward the child.

"He was holding the child in an unhealthy way. The child was crying and screaming," the traffic officer, Anna Esposito, told Italian state TV.

When Esposito approached the man, she said, the man quickened his step, then said something she couldn't understand when she asked him what he was doing.

"He was holding the girl by her arm and then started striking her [head] against the stone," Esposito said, looking shaken. The Canadian grabbed the child, Esposito said, while she struggled to hold the man and called for reinforcements.

"He was like a furious beast," Esposito said.

After the man was blocked by passers-by, he tried to break loose and strike his own head against the monument base, but onlookers stopped him, Casarsa said.

The man's backpack contained medicine indicating he was undergoing psychiatric treatment, Casarsa said.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan -- Security forces killed 15 militants and detained 60 others, the army said Sunday, in the first major action against insurgents under Pakistan's new government.

Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said five troops have been wounded in five days of fighting near the town of Hangu in the troubled northwest. Abbas said helicopter gunships were providing cover for troops on the ground.

The military began the operation on Wednesday, three days after armed supporters of Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud killed 17 troops in an ambush. Five militants were also killed in that clash.

The operation in Hangu, which borders on Pakistan's militant-plagued tribal belt, is the biggest against violent Islamic extremists since Pakistan's new government took charge after winning elections in February.

U.S. troops kill relatives of Iraq governor in raid

BAGHDAD -- The U.S. military says American soldiers have killed two armed relatives of a provincial governor during a raid against al-Qaida in Iraq.

The military says in a statement that the soldiers were acting in self-defense when they shot the relatives of Hamad Hammoud, governor of Salahuddin province. It says the slain men showed "hostile intent."

The raid happened Sunday in Beiji in northern Iraq. The deputy governor, Abdullah Hussein Jabarah, says the slain men were the son and nephew of the governor.

The U.S. military says a financier for al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and captured during the operation.