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ABUJA (Reuters) - A senior U.N. official appointed by Nigeria to help end unrest in the oil-producing Niger Delta said on Tuesday he would seek a 90-day truce with militants as a first step towards formal peace talks.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, will not visit South Korea during a July trip to Japan for the Group of Eight summit, the White House said on Tuesday, after violent protests in Seoul over a U.S.-South Korean beef deal.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip fired several rockets into Israel on Tuesday, breaching a five-day-old ceasefire after Israeli troops killed a Palestinian militant leader in the occupied West Bank.

GUWAHATI, India (Reuters) - A powerful separatist group in India's restive northeast suffered a blow when half a dozen of its senior commanders decided to shun violence and declared a ceasefire, officials said on Tuesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Tibet will be reopened to foreign tourists from Wednesday, China's official Xinhua news agency said, after the region was shut off to foreign visitors following riots there in March.

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. and European negotiators have been given more time for World Trade Organisation-brokered talks to resolve a long-running clash over bananas, Geneva trade diplomats said on Tuesday.

YUMA, Arizona (Reuters) - Mexican migrant worker Fidel Castaneda hunkers down, brushes the sweat from his eyes and moves swiftly along the sun-blasted row cutting vines as the temperatures rises to 111 Fahrenheit (44 C).

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union on Tuesday hailed an agreement between Serbia's Socialist and Democratic parties as a real chance to establish a pro-European government in the Balkan country.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A bomb killed 10 people including two U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers at a council meeting in the Baghdad stronghold of Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr on Tuesday, officials said.

KABUL (Reuters) - Pakistan must stop militants crossing the border to attack targets in Afghanistan, otherwise the Kabul government will take action, Afghanistan's presidential spokesman said on Tuesday.

THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Prosecutors sought on Tuesday to get the first trial of the International Criminal Court back on track after judges suspended the case against a suspected Congolese militia leader in a blow to the new tribunal.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday new sanctions imposed on it by the European Union over its nuclear plans could hurt diplomatic efforts to resolve the row.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said on Tuesday that Germany planned to increase the number of troops it can send to Afghanistan by 1,000 later this year.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's government and its communist allies meet on Wednesday over a civilian nuclear deal with the United States, in talks that could decide if the controversial energy pact or the ruling coalition survives.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistani Taliban militants told rivals to collect the bodies of their men on Tuesday in a northwestern town the Taliban seized the previous day, a tribal elder said.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Koreans against U.S. beef imports should lay down their protest banners and give new quarantine checks on the products a chance, the president said on Tuesday, vowing to crack down on violent street rallies.

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli forces killed two Palestinians, including an Islamic Jihad commander, in the West Bank city of Nablus on Tuesday in the first fatal raid since a ceasefire took hold in the Gaza Strip last week.

SANTA BARBARA, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain is defending his decision to switch position in favor of U.S. offshore oil drilling as he seeks votes in environmentally conscious California.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The party of former Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif blamed President Pervez Musharraf on Tuesday for Sharif's disqualification from a by-election for a National Assembly seat.

ZHANJIANG, China (Reuters) - A Japanese warship steamed into a Chinese port on Tuesday, the first such visit since World War Two, in a military exchange aimed at putting relations between the former bitter enemies on a firmer footing.