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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. weapons restrictions meant to keep firearms and other equipment out of China were eased on Monday so that athletes and television crews can use them during the Beijing Olympic Games.

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.

INDEPENDENCE, Missouri (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama rejected questions about his patriotism on Monday even as he drew fire for a supporter's attack on Republican rival John McCain's military record.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Unisys Corp has lost its job running the mammoth technology system that manages the U.S. Transportation Security Administration's data operations, an account the company says brings it about $225 million per year.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Envoys from six countries plan to meet in Beijing next week to discuss how to advance an accord under which North Korea promised to abandon its nuclear weapons and programs, a U.S. official said on Monday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's biggest bond fund manager anticipates that Barack Obama will be the next U.S. president, and warns that he will face stern economic circumstances.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson will reveal more details about his accelerated plans for the Federal Reserve to assume a larger regulatory role in maintaining financial system stability in a speech in London on Wednesday.

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.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will spend an additional $1.25 billion on international food aid donations this year and next as donor countries seek to blunt the effects of soaring food prices on the world's poor.

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.

LONDON (Reuters) - Private companies could have a greater role in providing state-funded health treatment in Britain under plans to be announced on Monday after a review of the 60-year-old National Health Service.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A move for the United States to lift a Cold War-era restriction on trade with Russia when it joins the World Trade Organization (WTO) will face opposition in Congress, U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson said on Monday.

DHARAMSALA, India (Reuters) - Senior envoys of the Dalai Lama arrived in China on Monday to meet the government over the issue of Tibet, the Tibetan government-in-exile said, amid pressure on China to open up dialogue as the Olympics approach.