ANKARA, Turkey -- Turkish warplanes have bombed Kurdish rebel bases in northern Iraq, the military said yesterday, two days after rebels killed 15 soldiers in an attack staged partly from Iraqi soil.

The military's deputy chief accused leaders in northern Iraq of tolerating the rebels.

"We don't receive any kind of support from the local administration in the northern part of Iraq," Turkey's Gen. Hasan Igsiz said. "Our expectation from them is to accept that the terrorist organization is a terrorist organization and eliminate the support provided to it."

The general also said northern Iraqi leaders should block the rebels from using local roads and hospitals.

The Turkish military says it needs Iraqi help to halt the rebel infiltration from bases across the long and mountainous border.

BANGKOK, Thailand -- Thai police arrested a key protest leader and one-time Bangkok mayor yesterday on charges of insurrection in a continuing crackdown against an anti-government movement that spearheaded the ouster of a prime minister last month.

Chamlong Srimuang was seen being hauled away by police at a polling station where an election for the city's top job was beginning. Police Col. Sarathon Pradit confirmed that Mr. Chamlong had been arrested.

Police on Aug. 27 issued arrest warrants for nine members of the People's Alliance for Democracy, the anti-government group that orchestrated mass street demonstrations that virtually paralyzed the government of Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej last month.

Exit polls yesterday showed Apirak Kosayodhin, the leader of Thailand's opposition Democrat Party, won re-election yesterday as governor of Bangkok, leading by a large margin over Prapas Chongsa-nguan of the ruling People's Power Party and Chuwit Kamolvisit, former owner of a string of massage parlors.

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- The Taliban are furious about the latest apparent U.S. missile strike in Pakistan, indicating a senior militant may be among two dozen people killed, officials and residents said yesterday.

The attack Friday on the North Waziristan tribal region was believed to have killed several Arab fighters but government officials have been notably quiet.

The U.S. has ramped up cross-border strikes that target alleged al-Qaida and Taliban hideouts in Pakistan's tribal regions bordering Afghanistan. Pakistani leaders have condemned the attacks as violations of their country's sovereignty.

Pakistan's chief army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas said at least 20 people died in the attack, eight of them foreign militants.

Extremists based in Pakistan's border regions have been blamed for attacks on American and NATO forces in Afghanistan and for violence inside Pakistan. Al-Qaida leaders including Osama bin Laden are believed to be hiding somewhere in the lawless tribal regions along the border.

ALGIERS, Algeria -- A baby was found alive by rescuers after spending four days in a pool of mud following flash floods that killed at least 41 people in central Algeria this week, a local official said yesterday.

The state-run APS news agency said the 4-month-old baby appeared in good health after being discovered late Saturday and had been handed to a family while authorities looked for its parents.

The reported rescue came as authorities confirmed at least 41 deaths in the floods.