Reuters - The killing and kidnapping of aid workers in Somalia threatens to wreck all attempts to resolve a humanitarian disaster that could soon rival its famine in the early 1990s, the United Nations said on Tuesday.

AP - President Bush said Tuesday that the United States is looking at ways to punish Zimbabwean leaders after China and Russia blocked sanctions at the United Nations last week.

AP - Sudan's ambassador said Monday his nation will try to persuade the U.N. Security Council to block a prosecutor from pursuing genocide charges against the Sudanese president.

AFP - The United States vowed Monday not to abandon its efforts to press Zimbabwe to stop attacking political foes after the United Nations failed to secure fresh sanctions.

AP - The board of governors for the United Nations' nuclear watchdog agency will meet Aug. 1 to vote on a deal that would allow international monitors to inspect some of India's atomic facilities, a spokeswoman said Monday.

AFP - Russia hopes to further boost ties with Saudi Arabia, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Monday during talks with Saudi Arabia's Security Council chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan.

AFP - A BBC report alleging that China is breaking a United Nations arms embargo on Sudan is biased, the Chinese special envoy to Darfur said in comments published here on Tuesday.

AFP - The United Nations prepared on Tuesday to fly non-essential staff from Darfur as supporters of Sudan President Omar al-Beshir planned protests in Khartoum to denounce the world court prosecutor's call for him to be arrested for alleged war crimes.

AP - The leaders of Syria and Israel, countries with a bitter enmity, as well as the Palestinian and Lebanese presidents together marked France's Bastille Day on Monday in a diplomatic coup for French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Reuters - Russia made no commitment at last week's Group of Eight summit to back U.N. sanctions against Zimbabwe so it cannot be accused of a U-turn, a senior Russian diplomat said on Monday.

AP - Sudan's ambassador says his nation will try to persuade the U.N. Security Council to block a prosecutor from pursuing genocide charges against the Sudanese president.

AFP - China is breaking the United Nations arms embargo on Sudan, providing military equipment and training pilots to fly Chinese jets, the BBC said Sunday, citing an investigation by its journalists.