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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and the representative of six world powers talked by telephone on Monday without resolving a row over Tehran's sensitive nuclear work, which the Islamic Republic said would not be stopped.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean activists said on Monday they planned a large candlelight rally to protest U.S. President George W. Bush's visit on Tuesday and demand the two countries scrap a widely criticized beef import deal.

CHANDIGARH, India (Reuters) - Indian authorities ordered an investigation on Monday into possible organizational lapses that led to a stampede outside a mountaintop Hindu temple in northern India, killing at least 145 pilgrims.

PIETERMARITZBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - Jacob Zuma, leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, appeared in court on Monday in a bid to win the dismissal of a graft case that could stop him becoming president next year.

VIENNA (Reuters) - A small amount of plutonium leaked in an ageing International Atomic Energy Agency laboratory outside Vienna but radioactive contamination was contained to a storage area and no one was injured, the U.N. watchdog said.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has accused Georgia of using disproportionate force in its breakaway province of South Ossetia and warned it not to aggravate the crisis there, the foreign ministry said on Monday.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshis voted on Monday in the first polls organized by the country's army-backed interim government since it took power in early 2007 with a promise to restore democracy.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Suspected Muslim separatists with homemade bombs killed 16 police in western China on Monday, state media said, reporting one of the worst attacks by militants on Chinese soil just four days before the Olympics.

BEERSHEBA, Israel (Reuters) - Israel sent 75 pro-Fatah Palestinians who fled the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip after clashes with the Islamist group to the West Bank on Monday after reversing a decision to return them to the coastal enclave.

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The Afghan and U.S. governments have broken ground on an agricultural centre and airport in the volatile southern province of Helmand, aimed at helping farmers grow food crops instead of opium poppies.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Monday they had tested a naval weapon that would destroy any vessel in range of 300 km (190 miles), Fars News Agency reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama holds a two-to-one lead over Republican John McCain among low-wage workers but many are uncommitted to either presidential candidate, to according to a new poll by The Washington Post, the Kaiser Family Foundation and Harvard University.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The two candidates favored to succeed Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday they may seek to forge a government with rightists, a step that could hurt peace talks but avoid an early election.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A police station in China's restive Xinjiang region was attacked on Monday morning, four days before the Beijing Olympics begin, killing 16 officers and wounding 12, state media reported.

BEIJING (Reuters) - After nearly ending the U.S. hegemony over the Olympic medal table in Athens four years ago, China could overtake their sporting superpower rivals in the race for global supremacy in Beijing.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Rescuers have reached an Italian mountaineer who refused to succumb to frostbite and exhaustion on K2 after 11 other climbers perished on the world's second-highest mountain, a Pakistani guide said on Monday.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Many developing countries that are combating AIDS are facing dire shortages of qualified doctors and nurses as healthcare workers leave for developed countries where they are paid many times more.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States said on Sunday that Iran has left the U.N. Security Council no choice but to increase sanctions on the Islamic Republic for ignoring demands that it halt sensitive nuclear activities.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Jacob Zuma, the leader of South Africa's ruling ANC, goes to court on Monday in an attempt to win the dismissal of a corruption case that could wreck his chances of becoming the nation's president next year.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Paris Hilton's mother -- a John McCain donor -- on Sunday dismissed as a "waste of money" a television ad that used her daughter and Britney Spears to portray Democrat Barack Obama as more celebrity icon than chief executive.