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TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran delivered a letter to world powers on Tuesday but gave no concrete reply to a demand to freeze its nuclear activity, a defiant step the United States said amounted to "obfuscation" and could lead to more sanctions.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Treasury said on Tuesday it blacklisted 14 Mexican companies and 17 people it said were tied to a drug kingpin associated with the fractured Sinaloa cartel in Mexico.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior officials from major powers will hold a conference call on Wednesday to discuss Iran's response to an offer to give up sensitive nuclear work in exchange for incentives, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday.

KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda formally accused senior French officials on Tuesday of involvement in its 1994 genocide and called for them to be put on trial.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashir al-Assad held talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a Turkish beach resort on Tuesday to discuss regional peace efforts, a government source said.

MINSK (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador to Belarus, asked by authorities to leave Minsk during a row over sanctions, has been given a new job with international responsibility for human rights, the U.S. embassy said on Tuesday.

KARACHI (Reuters) - Pakistan has demanded consular access to a Pakistani woman with suspected links to al Qaeda who is due to be arraigned in New York on Tuesday on charges of attempting to murder U.S. troops and FBI agents in Afghanistan.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawmakers overseeing antitrust matters in the U.S. Senate urged the Bush administration on Monday to investigate a proposal for UPS Inc to fly packages in North America for Deutsche Post express unit DHL.

AVNEVI, Georgia (Reuters) - Georgia on Tuesday denied preparing for war in its breakaway South Ossetia region following deadly weekend clashes that have raised fears of a new war in the Caucasus.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African judge said on Tuesday he would decide next month on ruling party leader Jacob Zuma's bid to have a graft case against him dismissed.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Some of the most desperate refugees stranded in the Iraqi desert will move to Iceland and Sweden under a resettlement program announced on Tuesday by the United Nations refugee agency.

BISHKEK (Reuters) - Kyrgyzstan's police raided an apartment rented by U.S. officials and seized dozens of firearms before finding out that the Americans were training Kyrgyz secret services, the government said on Tuesday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush and South Korean President Lee Myung-bak will try to move beyond past differences on Wednesday and focus on ridding the Korean peninsula of nuclear weapons and promoting free trade.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashir al-Assad will hold talks with Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan at a Turkish beach resort on Tuesday to discuss regional peace efforts, a government source said.

TEHRAN/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran delivered a letter to world powers on Tuesday but gave no concrete reply to a demand to freeze its nuclear activity, a defiant step the United States said amounted to "obfuscation" and could lead to more sanctions.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African judge said on Tuesday he was considering reserving judgment on ruling party leader Jacob Zuma's bid to have a graft case that could stop him becoming president dismissed.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The Olympic torch arrived in China's capital on Tuesday after a jubilant reception in the quake-ravaged southwest, as Beijing tries to choreograph a happy ending to its troubled international tour.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party and the opposition are close to a power-sharing deal that would turn Robert Mugabe into a ceremonial president, a South African newspaper reported on Tuesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Clutching a bunch of blood red roses, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin joined hundreds of elderly Russians on Tuesday laying flowers at the foot of Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn's open coffin.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet in Jerusalem on Wednesday, a week after Olmert threw U.S.-sponsored peace talks into limbo by announcing that he would step down.