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DUBAI (Reuters) - Syria is not seeking nuclear weapons but wants to have access to atomic energy for peaceful purposes through a collective Arab project, President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Tuesday.

DJIBOUTI (Reuters) - Somali civil groups urged the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday to impose sanctions on political leaders opposed to peace talks and to call for the withdrawal of Ethiopian forces backing the interim government.

DUBAI (Reuters) - The prime minister of Iraq's Kurdish region said on Tuesday Kurds were willing to share power with Arabs in the city of Kirkuk -- a focus of rivalry between ethnic groups, largely because of its considerable oil wealth.

GROZNY, Russia (Reuters) - Authorities in the Chechen capital have dismantled a memorial to the victims of Soviet repression, triggering public outrage in the southern Russian region.

YANGON (Reuters) - International aid groups pressed Myanmar on Tuesday to stop closing cyclone relief camps as southeast Asian experts kicked off a mission to pin down the scale of the devastation a month after the storm.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's political problems are too complex to be resolved by a military coup, the country's top general said in an apparent admission that a bloodless 2006 putsch was a flop.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Israel must be prepared to return all Syrian lands occupied in the 1967 Middle East war as part of any peace deal between the two sides, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in remarks published on Tuesday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - No new South Korean president has fallen as far and as fast as Lee Myung-bak who marked 100 days in office on Tuesday with tumbling support and mass street protests that could weaken his ability to push economic reforms.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will press ahead with its nuclear program, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday, making clear the Islamic Republic would not bow to Western pressure and halt sensitive atomic work.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - A day after a bomb attack outside the Danish embassy, Pakistani investigators questioned residents and tested the residue of the explosives used, while suspicion for the blast fell on al Qaeda or its allies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Rep. James Clyburn of South Carolina, a Democratic Party superdelegate, backed Barack Obama on Tuesday for his party's presidential nomination.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - The African Union and United Nations are working to appoint a joint chief mediator to jumpstart efforts to bring peace to Sudan's Darfur region, U.N. Darfur envoy Jan Eliasson said on Monday.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Myung-bak said on Tuesday he would not allow imports of U.S. beef from cattle over 30 months without public support, bowing to street protests that have led to a fall in his popularity rating.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A New York-based human rights watchdog urged China on Tuesday to honor its commitment to improve its rights record before the Beijing Olympics by freeing some 130 Tiananmen-era prisoners.

ROME (Reuters) - A U.N. global food crisis summit will draw up an emergency plan on Wednesday to mobilize aid, reduce trade barriers and invest in farming in poor countries to stop the spread of hunger threatening nearly one billion people.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's president said on Monday Israel would soon disappear off the map and that the "satanic power" of the United States faced destruction, in his latest verbal attack on the Islamic Republic's arch-enemies.

PARIS (Reuters) - Seven children were killed when a train collided with a school bus at a level crossing in eastern France on Monday, French authorities said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, the sole surviving son of America's most famous political family, is "recuperating well" from brain surgery and should be released within a week from Duke University Medical Center, his office said on Tuesday.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas protested Jewish settlement growth near Jerusalem in talks on Monday with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who sought to show it was business-as-usual despite a corruption probe.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The U.N. atomic watchdog chief said on Monday Syria would let in top inspectors to examine allegations of a secret nuclear reactor, and demanded "full disclosure" by Iran over reports of covert atom bomb research.