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KABUL — The Afghan government expelled two senior European diplomats Thursday over accusations that they held unauthorized meetings with Taliban militants, officials said.

The diplomats had traveled to Musa Qala, a former Taliban stronghold in southern Helmand province on Monday, where they met with local leaders, said Aleem Siddique, a spokesman for the U.N. mission.

After that trip, the two were accused of meeting with Taliban militants and were told to leave the country.

President Hamid Karzai's spokesman, Humayun Hamid-zada, has said the two were "involved in some activities that were not their jobs."

An official at EU headquarters in Brussels confirmed that Michael Semple, the acting head of the European Union mission, was expelled. Mervyn Patterson was also expelled. He worked for the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, Siddique said .

NOUAKCHOTT — Three soldiers manning a checkpoint at the entrance to a military base were killed Thursday by unknown assailants in Mauritania's northern desert, a military official said.

The attack outside the town of Ghallawiya followed the Christmas Eve slaying of four French tourists who were picnicking by the roadside near Aleg, a town 150 miles east of Nouakchott, said Lt. Col. Mohamed Lemine Ould Taleb, a military spokesman.

The government of this moderate Islamic republic on the western edge of the Sahara Desert blamed the murders on a terrorist "sleeper cell" affiliated with al-Qaida.

OSLO — Amy Winehouse has been summoned to appear in court in Bergen after appealing her fine for marijuana possession, according to Liv Karlsen, Bergen police spokeswoman .

British singer Winehouse, 24, and her husband, Blake Fielder-Civil, 25, were arrested in Bergen on Oct. 18 and held overnight on charges of illegal drug possession. They were released the next day after paying fines of $715 each on charges of possessing about a quarter-ounce of marijuana, and continued on a European tour.

NEW DELHI — Hindu extremists torched nearly a dozen churches and the home of a Christian leader Thursday, defying a curfew imposed to quell three days of religious violence in eastern India. Christians retaliated by setting fire to several homes belonging to Hindus.

On Thursday, a mob of Hindus burned down the house of Radhakant Nayak, a member of India's upper house of parliament and a Christian leader in the area, Nayak told the CNN-IBN news channel.

Also, 11 churches were ransacked and burned in Kandhamal district of Orissa state, the Press Trust of India said.

Meanwhile, in the village of Brahmangaon, a group of Christians burned down several Hindu homes in an apparent retaliation for the attack on churches. Angry Hindus then burned down the village police station, complaining of a lack of protection, a local police official said,

PARIS — France asked Chad on Thursday to hand over six French charity workers convicted and sentenced to eight years of forced labor for trying to kidnap 103 children from the Central African country.

The six workers from the charity group Zoe's Ark, charged with fraud and kidnapping, were convicted and sentenced Wednesday by a court in Chad's capital, N'Djamena.