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JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's cabinet on Sunday approved the release of five Palestinian prisoners as part of a swap deal with the Lebanese Hezbollah guerrilla group that brought the bodies of two Israeli soldiers home.

KABUL (Reuters) - A roadside bomb struck a U.S.-led military convoy outside the Afghan capital on Sunday, killing one soldier and wounding another, the military said.

TIZI OUZOU, Algeria (Reuters) - A car bomb exploded near a police station in a town east of Algiers on Sunday, wounding 25 people including four policemen, the government of the OPEC member country said.

LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's embattled prime minister, Gordon Brown, suffered another blow on Sunday with the publication of a memo in which Tony Blair heaps scorn on his successor's performance in office.

MILAN (Reuters) - Concerns about China's human rights record and its polluted air have dampened public interest around the world in the Beijing Olympics, a research group said.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A car bomb killed eight people and wounded 14 others in a Sunni Arab area of Baghdad on Sunday, Iraqi police said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese and foreign citizens wishing to protest during the Beijing Olympics must apply five days beforehand and not harm China's vaguely defined "national interests", a Games security official said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce minister has called the collapse of trade liberalization talks a heavy blow, telling state media his country will brace for more trade friction and pursue closer regional cooperation.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Afghan President Hamid Karzai is due to arrive in India on Sunday to cement ties with New Delhi, just weeks after a suicide bombing at the Indian embassy in Kabul underscored the security tensions in the region.

Joe Bavier has reported on West and Central Africa for four years. He joined Reuters as Kinshasa correspondent in 2006. In the following story, he describes a trip to Central African Republic's porous eastern border with Sudan in the aftermath of a wave of raids by Uganda's rebel Lord's Resistance Army.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Struggling Japanese Prime Minister Fukuda's revamp of his cabinet has done little to improve the unpopular leader's image among voters, media surveys released on Sunday showed, fanning doubts over whether he can keep his job.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Pyongyang said on Sunday it would expel "unnecessary" South Korean staff from a mountain resort in the North, escalating tension over the killing of a South Korean tourist last month.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's unpopular young government is having second thoughts about the benefits of running the world's most wired society.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez, who has spent most of her first eight-months in office in a deep political crisis, defended her administration on Saturday and ruled out further cabinet changes.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Olympic sponsors are launching possibly the largest advertising and marketing campaign ever, aiming to etch their brands in the minds of a new generation of Chinese consumers for far beyond the upcoming Games.

SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - The last of 400 Russian soldiers sent by Moscow to repair a railway in Georgia's rebel region of Abkhazia began to pull out on Wednesday, ending a deployment which angered Tbilisi and its Western allies.

HARARE (Reuters) - An explosion rocked the main police station in Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Saturday, but there was no immediate word of any injuries.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Saturday it would not back down "one iota" in its nuclear row with major powers, voicing defiance on the day of an informal deadline set by the West over Tehran's disputed atomic ambitions.

MARSEILLE, France (Reuters) - Two French towns have banned bullfighting shows featuring a 10-year-old boy who has caused a sensation in Mexico, local authorities said on Saturday.