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DHAKA (Reuters) - A call for national unity by the party of detained former Bangladesh prime minister Begum Khaleda Zia was immediately rebuffed on Friday by its main rival in a sign the country's political cracks are as wide as ever.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan boosted security in the capital Islamabad and neighboring Rawalpindi on Friday where three vehicles laden with explosives were intercepted just days after a deadly attack on the Danish embassy.

YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's junta attacked "unscrupulous" citizens and foreign media on Friday for presenting a false picture of the devastation left by Cyclone Nargis as experts began mapping the extent of the disaster.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK Party accused the country's top court on Friday of violating the constitution by overturning a government-led reform that lifted a ban on Muslim headscarves at universities.

CHENGDU (Reuters) - China readied on Friday to ease pressure on a swollen "quake lake" threatening hundreds of thousands of people downstream in the southwestern province of Sichuan as the water level quickly rises toward a man-made sluice.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police detained opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai on Friday for the second time this week after blocking him from reaching a campaign rally for the June 27 presidential run-off vote.

COLOMBO (Reuters) - Two bomb attacks on buses in Sri Lanka killed at least 22 people on Friday, security officials said, the latest in a series of assaults by suspected Tamil Tiger rebels on the country's transport system.

JUBA, Sudan (Reuters) - Rheumy-eyed Chief Joseph Lokoi has lived through two civil wars in south Sudan, but the scars covering his body are not the relics of battle.

EL FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.

GAZA/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip welcomed on Thursday what he called a "new spirit" of dialogue from the Palestinian president but it was unclear how far the rival factions were moving to end a year-old schism.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe indefinitely suspended all work by aid groups on Thursday and police held a group of U.S. and British diplomats for several hours after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential vote.

GAZA/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - The leader of Hamas in the Gaza Strip welcomed on Thursday what he called a "new spirit" of dialogue from the Palestinian president but it was unclear how far the rival factions were moving to end a year-old schism.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is freezing the assets of three Gulf-based militants on Thursday, saying they provided financial and material support to al Qaeda.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev made energy a key focus of his first trip to western Europe on Thursday, promising Germany closer energy cooperation and offering Europe more say in Russian oil and gas deliveries.

KINSHASA (Reuters) - The United Nations, European Union and United States on Thursday condemned a Rwandan rebel attack on a refugee camp in east Congo as a "terrorist act" and said those responsible must be brought to justice.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean police detained U.S. and British diplomats for several hours on Thursday, slashing the tires of their cars after they visited victims of political violence ahead of a presidential vote.

EL FASHER, Sudan (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court prosecutor said on Thursday he would seek new indictments next month against top officials, accusing Sudan's "entire state apparatus" of involvement in crimes in Darfur.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev suggested on Thursday that Europe needed a new comprehensive security pact to address key issues dividing the continent.

VIENNA (Reuters) - Iran said on Thursday it had given U.N. investigators more than 200 pages of answers to questions about intelligence reports that it secretly researched how to make atom bombs and declared "the matter is over".

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's ruling AK party appeared to move a step closer to being shut down on Thursday when the Constitutional Court overturned a reform that would have allowed women to wear Islamic headscarves in universities.