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NAIROBI (Reuters) - A Kenyan cabinet minister and assistant minister died on Tuesday along with two others when their light plane crashed near the Masai Mara game reserve, officials said.

AWJA, Iraq (Reuters) - The head of Saddam Hussein's tribe was killed by a bomb planted on his vehicle north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday voted against taking up a new energy package that would revoke $17 billion in tax breaks extended to big oil companies like Exxon Mobil Corp and slap a 25 percent windfall profits tax on firms that don't invest in new energy sources.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration is not to blame for a beef deal that has triggered widespread protests in South Korea and caused President Lee Myung-bak's popularity to plummet, a top U.S. official said on Tuesday.

INDIANAPOLIS (Reuters) - Some Southern Baptists feel they have no choice but to vote for a "liberal" in the November U.S. presidential election: presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the Constitutional Court must explain its decision to overturn a government-led reform allowing students to wear Muslim headscarves at university.

PARIS (Reuters) - Donor states, military powers and regional players will be seeking a more effective strategy for Afghanistan's development and security as well as pledging funds at a conference in Paris on Thursday.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Hundreds of Tibetan exiles scuffled with Nepali police on Tuesday during an anti-China rally in the streets of Kathmandu before 239 refugees were detained, police and witnesses said.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Over two-thirds of the detainees in the Guantanamo Bay prison are suffering from or at risk of mental problems because they are kept isolated in small cells with little light or fresh air, according to Human Rights Watch.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice visits the Middle East this weekend facing the reality that political turmoil in Israel and the Bush administration's dwindling time may dash hopes of an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal this year.

A year after Hamas Islamists seized control of the Gaza Strip, Abu Hafss is waiting impatiently to see a sword remove the hand of a thief or a woman stoned to death for adultery.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai rejected calls on Tuesday for a national unity government instead of a presidential runoff vote and said his party was sure to win the election despite government violence.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican White House candidate John McCain will promise on Tuesday to lower corporate tax rates if he wins the U.S. presidency and ease the tax burden on middle-class workers to help revive the faltering economy.

MADRID (Reuters) - Protesters marched in India, Hong Kong and Nepal over soaring oil prices on Tuesday and Spaniards stockpiled fuel and food, fearing shortages because of a truck drivers' strike that has halted deliveries.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials announced plans for more high-tech border fencing and rules making it harder for federal contractors to hire illegal workers, but said on Monday it would take another three years to declare victory in immigration control.

YENAKIYEVO, Ukraine (Reuters) - Rescuers have little chance of finding alive 12 miners missing after a gas explosion at a Ukrainian colliery, officials said on Tuesday.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Hardline Islamist leaders rejected a U.N.-brokered peace pact signed by the Somali government and some opposition figures, and vowed on Tuesday that war would continue.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta has released 15 activists arrested two weeks ago for trying to march to the house of detained democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, the former Burma's main opposition party said on Tuesday.

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Somalia's interim government and some opposition figures signed a peace deal on Monday that called for the rapid deployment of a robust U.N. stabilization force in the Horn of Africa nation.

SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes attacked northern Iraq on Monday, Iraqi security officials said on Tuesday, bombing a mountainous area that is home to rebel Kurdish separatists.