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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur risks becoming "the world's latest broken promise" unless it receives more international support and improves security with the troops it has, a group of 50 agencies said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday plans to project the U.S. budget deficit will soar to nearly half a trillion dollars in fiscal 2009 as the economic outlook darkens.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's highest court on Monday began considering whether to shut down the governing party for Islamist activities against a background of tension following two bomb attacks in Istanbul.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress towards a global trade deal ground to a halt on Monday as the United States clashed with China and India over access to their rapidly growing markets and key European Union states demanded better terms.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will launch a pilot scheme on Friday which will require travelers covered by its visa waiver program to get prior Internet authorization before boarding flights to America.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Iran will seek "common ground" with the United States and five other world powers that have proposed incentives for Tehran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress towards a global trade deal ground to a halt on Monday as the United States clashed with China and India over access to their rapidly growing markets and key European Union states demanded better terms.

KABUL (Reuters) - Two French aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan this month are fine and the government is doing all it can to secure their freedom, the interior minister said on Monday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Resistance by India and China to opening up their markets to more imports has thrown global trade talks into their "gravest jeopardy" since their launch in 2001, a senior U.S. trade official said on Monday.

KIEV (Reuters) - Floods in western Ukraine have killed 22 people, destroyed homes, farmland and roads and prompted the evacuation of 20,000 residents, officials said on Monday.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta said on Monday they had blown up two major oil pipelines belonging to Royal Dutch Shell, forcing the firm to halt some production and helping push world oil prices higher.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed "deep concern" on Monday over a meeting last week between U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction rounded up dozens of Hamas activists, including university lecturers, in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Hamas sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three female suicide bombers killed 28 people and wounded 92 when they blew themselves up among Shi'ites walking through the streets of Baghdad on a religious pilgrimage on Monday, Iraqi police said.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Constitutional Court began deliberating on Monday on whether to close the ruling AK Party on charges of seeking to introduce Islamic rule in the predominantly Muslim but officially secular state.

KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear accusations that the cabinet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra breached lottery laws, a decision that may force three current cabinet ministers to resign.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will convene an all-star panel of advisers on Monday as he shifts his campaign focus from world affairs to the top issue for American voters -- the faltering U.S. economy.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The legal team of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal to delay his extradition to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic's brother said on Sunday.

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - Thailand's new foreign minister started talks with his Cambodian counterpart on Monday to defuse a row over a 900-year-old temple that has raised fears of a military clash between the southeast Asian neighbors.