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TAIPEI (Reuters) - Japan on Monday turned back a Taiwan activist boat which approached a group of disputed islands in protest against a ship collision last week, the latest drama in a fast-escalating political dispute, officials said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Floods triggered by torrential rains have killed dozens of people across China, as officials struggle to move thousands of victims of last month's earthquake to escape the threat of landslides caused by downpours.

ACCRA (Reuters) - Weaving his yellow taxi through the traffic-choked streets of Accra, James Osie says Ghana's ruling party has grown fat on the money of the people.

WARSAW/EDINBURGH (Reuters) - Four years after Polish graphic designer Chris Rychter headed to Britain to find work and study as a citizen of the European Union, he and his wife have returned home.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday it was "extremely important" Israel allow three Palestinians to leave the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to take up prestigious U.S. fellowships.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Two weeks after breaking with his long-time church after pastors there made inflammatory and anti-American sermons, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama went to a new church on Sunday to discuss fatherhood.

HELSINKI (Reuters) - An 88-year-old man shot his two adult daughters and his wife dead in Ylitornio, northern Finland, before killing himself on Sunday, police said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Sunday Israel's settlement building was harming peace negotiations with the Palestinians.

SKOPJE (Reuters) - A huge police operation in Macedonia ensured a partial re-run of parliamentary elections on Sunday passed peacefully after the European Union warned that the country's membership bid was on the line.

YAOUNDE (Reuters) - Cameroonian authorities searching for six people abducted by armed pirates near the Nigerian border found five mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies, Cameroon's military headquarters said on Sunday.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will press Ireland this week on ways to overcome its rejection of an EU reform treaty, but Irish Prime Minister Brian Cowen said the bloc must also contribute to a solution.

AMARA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraq's government beefed up army and police units in the southern city of Amara on Sunday for a new crackdown on Shi'ite militias, witnesses said.

LONDON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush, scrutinized in books by former colleagues including a blistering critique by his ex-spokesman, is considering writing a memoir of his own.

GOZ-BEIDA, Chad (Reuters) - Chadian rebels mounting what they say is a new offensive against President Idriss Deby advanced deeper into the country from the east on Sunday, briefly occupying the town of Am-Dam, rebel spokesmen said.

PRISTINA (Reuters) - Kosovo's first constitution as an independent state came into force on Sunday, giving ethnic Albanians the right to executive powers held by the United Nations mission that has run the territory since 1999.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain's tax policies have given him an edge as the better man for the economy, various Wall Street experts said at this week's Reuters Investment Outlook Summit.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was quoted on Sunday as saying he would be willing to hand power to a ruling party ally when he was sure the country was safe from "sellouts" and from British interference.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday threatened to send troops into Pakistan to kill Taliban militants if they pursued cross-border attacks into Afghanistan.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon will soon form a national unity government in line with a Doha agreement to end the country's political crisis, Arab League chief Amr Moussa said on Sunday.

LONDON (Reuters) - Two months after an Israeli tank shell killed one of its cameramen in the Gaza Strip, Reuters has urged the army to release immediately the findings of its internal investigation in the interests of journalists' safety.