Separate suicide blasts in southern Afghanistan have wounded a NATO soldier and eight policemen, officials and witnesses have said. A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden van near a NATO and Afghan military convoy outside the southern city of Kandahar, wounding a NATO soldier, officials and witness said Thursday. “There was a suicide attack outside Kandahar this morning,” interior ministry spokesman Yousuf Stanizai said. The desert city was the birthplace of the ousted Taliban regime. Full Story