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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told parliament on Monday a full Israeli-Palestinian peace accord that includes Jerusalem was not within reach this year but said differences over borders and refugees were bridgeable.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. General Assembly on Monday unanimously confirmed South African judge Navanethem Pillay as the world body's new human rights chief, and activist groups urged her to be tough in her new post.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday projected the U.S. budget deficit will soar to a record of nearly half a trillion dollars in fiscal 2009 as a housing-led economic slowdown cuts into government revenues.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York Gov. David Paterson could order additional spending cuts to deal with mounting state deficits as Wall Street-related revenues decline, the New York Post reported on Monday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Presidential rivals Barack Obama and John McCain shifted the campaign focus back to the faltering U.S. economy on Monday, with Obama convening an all-star panel of advisers to help him hatch new approaches to a deepening problem.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The U.N.-AU peacekeeping force in Darfur risks becoming "the world's latest broken promise" unless it receives more international support and improves security with the troops it has, a group of 50 agencies said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration on Monday plans to project the U.S. budget deficit will soar to nearly half a trillion dollars in fiscal 2009 as the economic outlook darkens.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's highest court on Monday began considering whether to shut down the governing party for Islamist activities against a background of tension following two bomb attacks in Istanbul.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress towards a global trade deal ground to a halt on Monday as the United States clashed with China and India over access to their rapidly growing markets and key European Union states demanded better terms.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The United States will launch a pilot scheme on Friday which will require travelers covered by its visa waiver program to get prior Internet authorization before boarding flights to America.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Monday that Iran will seek "common ground" with the United States and five other world powers that have proposed incentives for Tehran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Progress towards a global trade deal ground to a halt on Monday as the United States clashed with China and India over access to their rapidly growing markets and key European Union states demanded better terms.

KABUL (Reuters) - Two French aid workers kidnapped in Afghanistan this month are fine and the government is doing all it can to secure their freedom, the interior minister said on Monday.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Resistance by India and China to opening up their markets to more imports has thrown global trade talks into their "gravest jeopardy" since their launch in 2001, a senior U.S. trade official said on Monday.

KIEV (Reuters) - Floods in western Ukraine have killed 22 people, destroyed homes, farmland and roads and prompted the evacuation of 20,000 residents, officials said on Monday.

ABUJA (Reuters) - Militants in Nigeria's Niger Delta said on Monday they had blown up two major oil pipelines belonging to Royal Dutch Shell, forcing the firm to halt some production and helping push world oil prices higher.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China expressed "deep concern" on Monday over a meeting last week between U.S. Republican presidential candidate John McCain and exiled Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama.

NABLUS, West Bank (Reuters) - Security forces loyal to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction rounded up dozens of Hamas activists, including university lecturers, in the occupied West Bank on Monday, Hamas sources said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three female suicide bombers killed 28 people and wounded 92 when they blew themselves up among Shi'ites walking through the streets of Baghdad on a religious pilgrimage on Monday, Iraqi police said.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's Constitutional Court began deliberating on Monday on whether to close the ruling AK Party on charges of seeking to introduce Islamic rule in the predominantly Muslim but officially secular state.