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MINSK (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Belarus, asked by authorities to leave Minsk during a row over sanctions, has been given a new job with international responsibility for human rights, the U.S. embassy said on Tuesday.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with suspected links to al Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder U.S. troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers overseeing antitrust matters in the U.S. Senate urged the Bush administration on Monday to investigate a proposal for UPS Inc to fly packages in North America for Deutsche Post express unit DHL.

AVNEVI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia on Tuesday denied preparing for war in its breakaway South Ossetia region following deadly weekend clashes that have raised fears of a new war in the Caucasus.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African judge said on Tuesday he would decide next month on ruling party leader Jacob Zuma's bid to have a graft case against him dismissed.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Some of the most desperate refugees stranded in the Iraqi desert will move to Iceland and Sweden under a resettlement program announced on Tuesday by the United Nations refugee agency.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's police raided an apartment rented by U.S. officials and seized dozens of firearms before finding out that the Americans were training Kyrgyz secret services, the government said on Tuesday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will try to move beyond past differences on Wednesday and focus on ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and promoting free trade.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashir al-Assad will hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a Turkish beach resort on Tuesday to discuss regional peace efforts, a government source said.

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran delivered a letter to world powers on Tuesday but gave no concrete reply to a demand to freeze its nuclear activity, a defiant step the United States said amounted to "obfuscation" and could lead to more sanctions.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African judge said on Tuesday he was considering reserving judgment on ruling party leader Jacob Zuma's bid to have a graft case that could stop him becoming president dismissed.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Olympic torch arrived in China's capital on Tuesday after a jubilant reception in the quake-ravaged southwest, as Beijing tries to choreograph a happy ending to its troubled international tour.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition are close to a power-sharing deal that would turn Robert Mugabe into a ceremonial president, a South African newspaper reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Clutching a bunch of blood red roses, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined hundreds of elderly Russians on Tuesday laying flowers at the foot of Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's open coffin.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Wednesday, a week after Olmert threw U.S.-sponsored peace talks into limbo by announcing that he would step down.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British newspaper said on Tuesday British soldiers in Iraq had been prevented from coming to the aid of American and Iraqi allies during battles in Basra because of a deal with the Mehdi Army militia.

DUBAI (Reuters) - A top cardiologist has warned television viewers in the United Arab Emirates to try to stay calm during the Olympics because they were particularly vulnerable to suffering heart attacks while watching sports.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda ruled out on Tuesday a visit to Tokyo's Yasakuni shrine, seen by many in Asia as a symbol of Japan's past militarism, on the August 15 anniversary of the country's surrender in World War Two.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush offered a mixed assessment of China's role in the world but said in an interview published on Tuesday it is "important to engage" the Chinese.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif said a meeting set for Tuesday with the head of the ruling party, Asif Ali Zardari, should be decisive for the future of their fractured four month-old coalition.