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KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday he was shelving plans to contest a parliamentary by-election due to a "political conspiracy" behind a young aide's accusation of homosexual assault.

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somali gunmen have kidnapped two local workers with an Italian charity in the latest attack on humanitarian staff in the Horn of Africa nation, locals and foreign aid sources said on Tuesday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - The African Union called on Tuesday for a national unity government in Zimbabwe after the widely condemned re-election of President Robert Mugabe in a violent poll ruled unfair by monitors.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - World Youth Day in Sydney this month is the Catholic church's Woodstock, five days of love, peace and Christianity overseen by the Pope, but civil liberties leaders say police will be using "repugnant" anti-protest powers.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea's prime minister said on Tuesday that violent street rallies against a U.S. beef import deal are harming the country's international credibility and driving investors away.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's main communist party said it would discuss the timing of withdrawal from the government over the civilian nuclear deal with the United States due to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's trip to a G8 summit.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq opened its giant oilfields to foreign firms on Monday, putting British and U.S. companies in pole position five years after U.S.-led troops invaded the country to oust Saddam Hussein.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China resumed fence-mending talks with envoys of Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, on Tuesday in a move that could burnish its international image weeks before the Chinese capital hosts the Olympics.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Iraqi government sued dozens of companies, including oil giant Chevron Corp., for more than $10 billion on Monday, saying they paid kickbacks to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's government under the U.N. oil-for-food program.

SANTIAGO (Reuters) - A Chilean judge on Monday added two life terms to the jail time of Augusto Pinochet's secret police chief for the murder of a former army chief and his wife in Argentina, the toughest penalty for dictatorship-era abuses to date.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Monday, putting further strain on a ceasefire brokered by Egypt.

LIMA (Reuters) - Peru's disgraced former President Alberto Fujimori should not be held responsible for human rights crimes committed during his time in office, the man who ran his feared counterinsurgency network said on Monday.

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt (Reuters) - Sudan could tip into "freefall" unless the international community helps to resolve its multiple crises, Britain's minister for Africa said on the sidelines of an African summit on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A Canadian who says he was whisked off a plane in New York and sent illegally to Syria where he was tortured for a year lost his case against the U.S. government on Monday on a technicality.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian prosecutors have brought new charges against jailed former oil businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his legal team said on Monday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian President Alvaro Uribe deepened his feud with the courts on Monday by going ahead with plans for a referendum aimed at rerunning the 2006 election in which he won a second term.

WARSAW (Reuters) - Nearly 70 years after most of his family was wiped out in the Holocaust, Shmuel Glitzenstein is proudly fulfilling what he knows they would have wanted.

TOULOUSE, France (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy blamed "unacceptable negligence" on Monday for an accident at the weekend in which a soldier fired live ammunition instead of blanks, wounding 17 people.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Five Iraqi appeals court judges escaped assassination attempts on Monday when bombs exploded outside their homes in eastern Baghdad, an apparent attempt to intimidate the court, police and a judicial official said.

GAZA (Reuters) - A Palestinian journalist said from his hospital bed on Monday that he was abused and injured by Israeli security personnel on his way home to the Gaza Strip after receiving a journalism award in Britain.