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PARIS (Reuters) - Freed Franco-Colombian hostage Ingrid Betancourt, a devout Catholic who prayed daily during six years in captivity, will visit the shrine of Lourdes in southwest France this week, a source close to her said on Monday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki raised the prospect on Monday of setting a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops as part of negotiations over a new security agreement with Washington.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - World leaders raised the prospect of more sanctions against Zimbabwe on Monday unless quick progress is made to end a political crisis after a violent election that extended President Robert Mugabe's 28-year rule.

MADRID (Reuters) - Eight people have been taken to hospital, mainly for bruising and concussion, on the first day of the annual bull running festival in the northern Spanish town of Pamplona on Monday, organizers said.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - Moscow and Washington should keep up dialogue despite failing to overcome differences on U.S. missile defense plans in Europe, a key irritant in ties, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Monday.

ROME (Reuters) - Italian trains, buses and subways ground to a halt on Monday as workers staged a nationwide strike to demand a renewal of their expired labor contracts.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's new government will focus on quick entry into the European Union, strengthening the country's economy and keeping Kosovo as a part of Serbia, Prime Minister designate Mirko Cvetkovic said on Monday.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A lawyer for a defendant in the Argentine "suitcase scandal" said a U.S. government witness has sworn that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was personally involved in the affair, according to a U.S. court filing.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will begin exhuming bodies of Hezbollah fighters on Monday ahead of a planned swap with the Lebanese guerrilla group, which is holding two soldiers, an Israeli military spokesman said.

OUTSIDE NILIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Israeli soldiers fired teargas and stun grenades on Monday to stifle protests against a West Bank barrier, declared illegal by the World Court four years ago this week.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian officials said six explosions struck on both sides of a de facto border between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region on Sunday, killing one person.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - World leaders head into the second day of the annual G8 summit preoccupied by soaring food and oil prices and deeply divided over how to tackle climate change.

BEIJING (Reuters) - With a month remaining until the opening ceremony of one of the most scrutinized Olympic Games in history, the time has come for Beijing to deliver on seven years of promises and billions of dollars spent.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China's stance on future talks with envoys of the Dalai Lama rests on how he answers demands not to disrupt next month's Beijing Olympics, an official said, highlighting intense anxieties about the Games.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The United Arab Emirates has cancelled almost $7 billion of debt including interest and arrears payments owed by Baghdad, becoming the first Gulf Arab country to forgive all of Iraq's debt.

TOYAKO, Japan (Reuters) - A British government report on food policy to be published on Monday says the link between demand for biofuels and rising world food prices needs to be more closely examined.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran's foreign minister on Sunday expressed optimism about what he said was a "new environment" for talks with major powers over its nuclear program.

MIAMI (Reuters) - A lawyer for a defendant in the Argentine "suitcase scandal" said a U.S. government witness has sworn that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was personally involved in the affair, according to a U.S. court filing.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel will begin exhuming the bodies of Hezbollah fighters buried in Israel ahead of a swap deal with the Lebanese guerrilla group, which is holding two Israeli soldiers, a military official said on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian dissident launched a campaign on Sunday in support of what he called political prisoners, demanding President Dmitry Medvedev free 25 people - including jailed oil boss Mikhail Khodorkovsky.