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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The Dutch Agriculture Ministry urged farmers to vaccinate their goats, sheep and cattle against the bluetongue livestock disease after confirming five new cases in the north of the Netherlands on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate John McCain's campaign fundraising continues to grow, with July's contributions hitting $27 million as his race against Democratic rival Barack Obama enters a crucial period, a top aide said on Friday.

KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents killed two soldiers from NATO-led forces in an attack in eastern Afghanistan on Friday, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Friday said he had signed a ceasefire agreement ending hostilities with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Lawmakers elected a Maoist who led a decade-long insurgency against the Hindu monarchy as Nepal's new prime minister on Friday, marking the Himalayan nation's change into a democratic republic.

ASUNCION (Reuters) - Former Bishop Fernando Lugo was sworn in on Friday as Paraguay's president in a ceremony attended by Latin America's socialist leaders, who have embraced him even as he has distanced himself from their policies.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Congress could consider legislation next month aimed at prodding Olympic organizers to strip Russia from hosting the 2014 winter games, in a move to punish Moscow for its military activity in Georgia, sponsors of the measure said.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in southern Israel on Friday but caused no injuries or damage, police said.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The United Nations and Red Cross have poured hundreds of tonnes of aid supplies into Georgia, but need better security conditions before deploying in South Ossetia, the two bodies said on Friday.

BOGOTA (Reuters) - At least seven people were killed and nearly 50 wounded when Colombian guerrillas detonated a bomb in a small town as residents celebrated a festival in one of the most serious recent attacks by leftist rebels, authorities said on Friday.

ROME (Reuters) - The number of illegal immigrants entering Italy nearly doubled in the first seven months of 2008 despite a clampdown by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's new conservative government, data showed on Friday.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Friday he hoped his country and Turkey would soon sign energy deals opposed by Washington, which is exerting pressure on Tehran to give up its nuclear program.

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - A roadside bomb struck a minibus packed with pilgrims bound for Iraq's holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala on Friday even as authorities deployed over 40,000 police and soldiers to avert new violence in the annual rite.

TBILISI (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Friday demanded Russia withdraw all of its troops from Georgia.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's envoy to NATO said on Friday that a deal struck between the United States and Poland on missile defense amid the Georgia crisis showed the system was aimed at Russia.

HARARE (Reuters) - Botswana's president will boycott a weekend summit of southern African leaders because the country does not recognize Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's re-election, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Supreme Court denied a request on Friday by the lawyers of former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra to have a corruption case against him and his wife suspended after they skipped bail and went into exile.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is ready to resign rather than face impeachment but is seeking immunity from prosecution for imposing emergency rule, a coalition government official said on Friday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The bombing of India's embassy in Kabul last month has cast a shadow over a peace process with Pakistan, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Friday in a key speech in which he urged Islamabad to clamp down on terrorism.

MIDSAYAP, Philippines (Reuters) - Displaced farmers in the southern Philippines returned home to rubble and ash on Friday after fierce fighting between government troops and Muslim separatists destroyed their villages.