AFP - United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon will Monday unveil a memorial in London dedicated to journalists who have lost their lives in the line of duty.

Reuters - China's trade with Iran at a time world powers are trying to convince it to give up its nuclear ambitions is sending the wrong signal to Tehran, the U.S. envoy to the United Nations nuclear watchdog said on Monday.

AFP - The Chadian army, facing clashes with rebels in the east of the country, has sealed off the city of Abeche, as the security situation "rapidly deteriorates," the UN High Commissioner for Refugees said Monday in a statement.

AFP - US presidential hopeful John McCain backs Brazil's inclusion on the UN Security Council and in an expanded G8, and would bump Russia from the exclusive club of leading world economies, a Brazilian newspaper reported Sunday.

AFP - Countries around the world can have normal relations with Iran if the Islamic Republic redefines itself and stops meddling in the affairs of its neighbours, US Ambassador to the United Nations Zalmay Khalilzad said in an interview Monday.

Reuters - Kosovo's first constitution as an independent state came into force on Sunday, giving ethnic Albanians the right to executive powers held by the United Nations mission that has run the territory since 1999.

Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he loses a June 27 presidential run-off vote.

AP - Iraqi security forces and U.S. troops are gaining the upper hand but the government still needs outside help maintaining control, Iraq's foreign minister told the U.N. Security Council on Friday.

Reuters - Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe said on Friday liberation war veterans would take up arms if he loses a June 27 presidential run-off vote.

AFP - Sri Lanka's Tamil Tigers said Friday they had released 27 more child soldiers, and contested a United Nations estimate that over 1,000 under-age fighters were still in rebel ranks.

AFP - Egypt's Culture Minister Faruq Hosni who is a candidate to head UNESCO said he was prepared to visit Israel, after stirring a row by saying he would burn its books, in an interview published on Friday.