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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. and South Korean trade officials pressed ahead on Tuesday with negotiations that Seoul hopes will result in new limits to a recent deal to reopen South Korea's market to U.S. beef exports.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The armies of feuding Horn of Africa neighbors Ethiopia and Eritrea are "less than a football pitch" apart, risking a catastrophic new war on their border, a think-tank warned on Tuesday.

WARSAW (Reuters) - The United States is talking with Lithuania about possibly installing part of a planned missile shield there if negotiations with Poland do not succeed, Warsaw's chief negotiator on missile defense said on Tuesday.

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey's top court will hold its first hearings in early July in a case aimed at outlawing the ruling AK Party for Islamist activities, a court source said on Tuesday.

MALABO (Reuters) - British mercenary Simon Mann, one of Africa's last "dogs of war", went on trial in Equatorial Guinea on Tuesday and the prosecution asked he be jailed for nearly 32 years for his role in a failed 2004 coup plot.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday set aside a former Bush administration official's conviction for lying and obstructing justice over his links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, and ordered a new trial.

LONDON (Reuters) - A British woman who called herself the "lyrical terrorist" and wrote a poem about beheading a hostage, won an appeal against a criminal conviction in London on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill will visit Japan and China this week for talks with officials from their governments and South Korea on curtailing North Korea's nuclear weapons plans, the State Department said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate was expected to vote as soon as Tuesday on a housing market rescue bill to refinance distressed mortgages and create a new regulator for Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, sources close to Senate talks said.

KIEV (Reuters) - NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said on Tuesday he would try to persuade all NATO members to back the idea of extending to Ukraine a Membership Action Plan (MAP), a step to joining the military alliance.

GAZA (Reuters) - An Egyptian-brokered ceasefire between Israel and Hamas will begin on Thursday, a Palestinian official said, after Israeli air strikes killed six militants in the Gaza Strip.

MALABO (Reuters) - Equatorial Guinea's state prosecutor asked a court on Tuesday to sentence British mercenary Simon Mann to nearly 32 years in prison for his role in a failed 2004 coup.

MILAN (Reuters) - Lawyers for Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi sought on Tuesday the removal of a judge trying him and British lawyer David Mills for graft, after Berlusconi accused the court of political bias.

GAZA (Reuters) - Envoys from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah faction visited the Gaza Strip on Tuesday to brief members there on his bid for reconciliation with the territory's Islamist Hamas rulers, officials said.

HARARE (Reuters) - A United Nations envoy met Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday to discuss the political crisis and the violence marring campaigning for this month's presidential election run-off.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Tuesday to create a smaller, more mobile and better equipped army able to respond to modern day threats ranging from terrorism to computer attacks.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain called on Tuesday for energy conservation and an end to a ban on U.S. oil and natural gas exploration to help curb the nation's "dangerous" dependence on foreign oil.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Hundreds of families fled their homes in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday as foreign and Afghan forces prepare to drive out Taliban insurgents who have overrun several villages, officials and witnesses said.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Tuesday uranium enrichment was its "red line" and would continue, despite an enhanced offer of incentives from big powers to stop activity the West fears could yield nuclear bombs.

KASHGAR, China (Reuters) - China locked down the far-western former Silk Road city of Kashgar on Tuesday in preparation for the passage of the Olympic torch relay through the sensitive region populated by ethnic-minority Muslim Uighurs.