Iran said Sunday it has summoned "more people" for their alleged links to the BBC's Farsi service, more than a week after it said six were arrested suspected of gathering information for the channel.

"Important information has been obtained about those cooperating with and linked to BBC Farsi, and the ministry has summoned more people linked to this so-called media," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi was quoted by the state television website as saying.

Six Turkish soldiers and three Kurdish rebels died during an attack on a police station in the country's Kurd-dominated southeast, an official statement said on Sunday.

The Saturday evening attack in the village of Belenoluk in Siirt province also injured 11 others, the governorate said in a statement, adding that three "terrorists" perished in the gunbattle.

A suicide bomber on Sunday attacked a church in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation and the scene of a series of sectarian incidents in recent years, police said.

"I can confirm that there was a suicide bomb attack in Church Bethel Injil at 10.55," Central Java provincial police spokesman Djihartono told Agence France Presse.

Thirteen assailants and two soldiers were killed when a little-known Islamic militant group attacked a military outpost in the lawless southern Philippines on Sunday, the army said.

About 50 men attacked the Marine outpost on the strife-torn island of Jolo before dawn but the troops fought back, driving them off, said regional military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Randolph Cabangbang.

At least 80 people protesting in New York against the U.S. financial system and Wall Street practices were arrested Saturday in the first big crackdown since demonstrators began camping on city streets a week ago.

"About 80 arrests were made," a spokesman for the New York Police Department told Agence France Presse. Most of the detained protestors were accused of blocking traffic and government facilities, and resisting arrest.

A small aircraft taking tourists on a sightseeing trip around Mount Everest crashed in Nepal on Sunday, killing all 19 people on board, officials said.

The Buddha Air Beechcraft plane carrying 10 Indian passengers, three other foreign tourists, three locals and three Nepali crew crashed into a hillside in heavy rain and fog at Godavari, around 10 kilometers (six miles) from Kathmandu.

Pakistan's prime minister has turned on the U.S. over its allegations of links to the Haqqani terror network, saying the "blame game is self-defeating" and U.S. policy in Afghanistan is in "disarray.”

The two countries are key allies in the war against Islamist militants in Afghanistan, but their relationship is often troubled and plumbed new depths after the killing of Osama bin Laden in a covert U.S. raid in Pakistan in May.

The two U.S. hikers Iran recently released after holding in jail for more than two years are scheduled to arrive home on Sunday, a family spokeswoman told Agence France Presse.

Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer, both 29, plan to leave Oman on Saturday and are "expected to arrive on U.S. soil tomorrow," spokeswoman Samantha Topping told AFP, without specifying where they would land.

At least 15 militants were killed Saturday in a gunfight with troops in a restive northwestern Pakistani district, security officials said.

The day-long gun battle near Kharkai hills, in the Lower Dir district of the once Taliban-infested Swat Valley, started when troops were approaching a strategic peak to establish a post, a senior security official told Agence France Presse.

A Turkish court ordered a general, an admiral and two colonels held in custody for an alleged coup plot which has already seen dozens of top officers jailed, Anatolia news agency said Saturday.

It said the four serving officers are suspected of involvement in the plot dubbed Operation Sledgehammer against the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan.