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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.

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.

KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - In a backstreet of the old Silk Road city of Kashgar, Chinese authorities have been spray-painting signs on dusty mud brick walls to warn against what it says is a new enemy -- the Islamic Liberation Party.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court agreed on Monday to hear accusations that the cabinet of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra breached lottery laws, a decision that may force three current cabinet ministers to resign.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The legal team of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal to delay his extradition to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic's brother said on Sunday.

SIEM REAP, Cambodia (Reuters) - Thailand's new foreign minister started talks with his Cambodian counterpart on Monday to defuse a row over a 900-year-old temple that has raised fears of a military clash between the southeast Asian neighbors.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran executed 29 convicted drug smugglers and other criminals in Tehran's Evin prison at dawn on Sunday, state media reported, following an expanded crackdown on crime in the Islamic Republic.

WANA, Pakistan (Reuters) - A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani madrasa killed six people, including foreigners, on Monday in tribal lands regarded as an al Qaeda and Taliban hotbed, intelligence officials said.

AHMEDABAD, India (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday visited victims of bombings that killed 45 people in a communally sensitive city, as calls grew for his government to beef up its intelligence apparatus.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China need not worry too much about speculative capital flooding into or out of the country as the sums involved are not huge, a senior government economist said in remarks published on Monday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Bombs killed 15 people and wounded around 140 in Istanbul late on Sunday, just hours ahead of a court case over banning the governing party that has plunged Turkey into political turmoil.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - The legal team of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic has filed an appeal to delay his extradition to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, Karadzic's brother said on Sunday.

ROME (Reuters) - A Nigerian migrant's account of how his two children were thrown overboard after dying of thirst on their voyage to Italy has added fuel to a debate on whether illegal immigration is out of control.

PRETORIA (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling party and opposition factions are continuing with negotiations to resolve the political crisis, South African President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Former Darfur rebels on Sunday accused Sudan's army of a second attack on their forces since President Omar Hassan al-Bashir called for a new initiative for peace.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Gunmen opened fire on Shi'ite pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven, as thousands made their way to a revered shrine in the Iraqi capital, police said.

SALZBURG, Austria (Reuters) - The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic showed Belgrade's willingness to recognize its international obligations, and more arrests could follow, the Serbian prime minister said on Sunday.

KIEV (Reuters) - Floods described by a senior government official as the worst in a century have killed 13 people in western Ukraine and four in neighboring Romania, officials said on Sunday.