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BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi'ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama admitted on Tuesday he was wrong to say his uncle helped liberate the Nazis' Auschwitz concentration camp after Republicans said Soviet troops freed the camp.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Drug traffickers killed seven Mexican policemen on Tuesday, the latest slayings in a wave of police murders as the army wages a battle against cartels.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's parliamentary majority coalition agreed on Tuesday to nominate Prime Minister Fouad Siniora to form the country's first government under newly elected President Michel Suleiman.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraq's main Sunni Arab political bloc said on Wednesday it had suspended talks to rejoin the Shi'ite-led government after a disagreement with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki over a cabinet post.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Much more needs to be done to prevent the killing and displacement of civilians in places such as Darfur, Somalia, Israel and Columbia, U.N. humanitarian affairs chief John Holmes said on Tuesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading U.S. senator on Tuesday pressed the top futures market regulator for more information about speculation by big investment funds in crude oil futures and other energy markets.

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday dismissed Israeli demands that Syria abandon an alliance with Iran as a requirement for a peace deal.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. senators want Visa Inc and MasterCard Inc, the dominant electronic payment companies, to break down detailed costs associated with transactions called interchange fees, according to letters obtained by Reuters on Tuesday.

BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany unveiled a monument to the tens of thousands of homosexuals persecuted under the Nazis, whose laws were used to prosecute gay men for a generation after World War Two.

PANAMA CITY (Reuters) - A leftist with an anti-U.S. past is the early front-runner for next year's presidential election in Panama, one of Latin America's economic growth success stories.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice does not expect to meet with her counterparts from foes Iran and Syria at an international conference on Iraq in Stockholm this week, her spokesman said on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi officials reopened a landmark Baghdad bridge on Tuesday after it was destroyed by a truck bomb last year, vowing to defeat terrorists and unite a country ravaged by sectarian strife.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday gave a cautious endorsement to this week's resumption of a human rights dialogue with China that has been frozen since 2002.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Jimmy Malish huddles under a blanket, looks at the darkening sky and prays that it doesn't rain again on him and the hundreds of other African migrants camped in the courtyard of a Johannesburg police station.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Rich and poor countries clashed on Tuesday about whether new proposals to free up trade in industrial goods did enough to open markets or help developing countries.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia demanded on Tuesday that Russia apologize after a U.N. report said a Russian air force jet had shot down a Georgian spy plane last month, but Moscow said it did not trust the report's conclusions.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China urged all sides trying to rein in communist North Korea's nuclear weapons program on Tuesday to engage fully to achieve results sooner rather than later.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan on Tuesday lost a U.S. Supreme Court appeal that sought to overturn his corruption conviction on the grounds his right to a fair trial by an impartial jury had been violated.

NAPLES (Reuters) - A judge in Naples has ordered 25 people, including employees at units of construction company Impregilo, to be put under house arrest for alleged irregularities in waste management activities in southern Italy.