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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas protested Jewish settlement growth near Jerusalem in talks on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who sought to show it was business-as-usual despite a corruption probe.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. nuclear watchdog chief said on Monday Iran seemed to be holding back information needed to clarify intelligence reports that it researched nuclear bombs in secret and he demanded "full disclosure" by Tehran.

YANGON (Reuters) - A large "Happy World" sign hangs above a dilapidated food market in Yangon, but on the streets shoppers are far from content.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq wants to discuss evidence of Iranian intervention in Iraq and the two countries' overall relationship during a visit to Tehran this week by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, a government spokesman said on Monday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A suspected suicide bomber blew up a car outside the Danish embassy in the Pakistani capital on Monday, killing six people and wounding 25, government officials said.

DURHAM, North Carolina (Reuters) - U.S. Sen. Edward Kennedy, a Democratic icon and a leading backer of presidential contender Barack Obama, had successful surgery on Monday to remove a malignant brain tumor and should suffer "no permanent neurological effects," his surgeon said.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic's arch-foes.

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council arrived in Djibouti on Monday to meet key players in Somalia's conflict to try to persuade the disparate factions to help end fighting in the Horn of Africa nation.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai army chief Anupong Paochinda told his top commanders on Monday the military would not intervene in a worsening political struggle, his spokeswoman said, as the stock market slid on speculation of another coup.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's ambassador to the United States, Yuri Ushakov, was recalled on Monday to take up a senior job in the government of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin.

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonia's ruling conservatives have won an overwhelming election victory but monitors on Monday criticized violence during voting that could delay the country's progress towards European Union membership.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - A Thai court began the formal trial on Monday of Canadian pedophile suspect Christopher Neil, seven months after he was arrested in a global manhunt triggered by "swirly face" images of abuse found on the Internet.

LONDON (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said on Monday he would stick to his principles over plans to detain terrorism suspects for longer prior to being charged despite the prospect of a humiliating defeat in parliament.

MIRANSHAH, Pakistan (Reuters) - At least one missile was fired at a house next to a mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Monday, almost completely destroying the building but killing no one, a resident of the area said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The organizers of this summer's Beijing Olympics on Monday reminded foreigners coming to China for the Games to behave, warning them that everything from protesting without permission to sleeping outdoors was banned.

LAME DEER, Montana (Reuters) - Often paid scant attention in U.S. presidential elections, Native Americans are taking an unusually high profile in the final stretch of the Democratic primary campaign.

YONGAN, China (Reuters) - Chin said on Monday it could guarantee there would be no epidemics in the earthquake zone, while some survivors complained their farmland was being bulldozed to make way for temporary housing.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Blasts at a multi-storey hotel in the Bangladesh capital injured more than 30 people overnight, police and fire authorities said on Monday, adding the explosions appeared to have been caused by gas leaking from a room heater.

COBIJA, Bolivia (Reuters) - Voters in eastern Bolivia overwhelmingly endorsed plans on Sunday for more autonomy for their regions in two referendums fiercely opposed by leftist President Evo Morales, whose call to boycott the balloting helped limit the turnout.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Sunday expressed dismay over the deployment of additional Russian troops to Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, adding that it has addressed its concern to Moscow.