AP - The United Nations refugee agency says at least 52 Somalis have died after being adrift for 18 days in a broken smuggler boat. -- read full article
AFP - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice confirmed on Saturday she met her Syrian counterpart, Walid Muallem, to discuss Middle East peace efforts despite renewed criticism from Washington over Syria's policies.
AFP - World powers on Saturday called on Myanmar's military rulers to make "tangible" progress on political reforms ahead of a possible visit by UN chief Ban Ki-moon to the country by year-end.
Reuters - A U.N. group on Myanmar vowed on Saturday to keep the world spotlight on the troubled country and to press the military rulers of the former Burma to comply with U.N. Security Council resolutions. -- read full article
AP - The U.N. Security Council unanimously approved a new resolution Saturday reaffirming previous sanctions on Iran for refusing to halt its uranium enrichment program and offering Tehran incentives to do so. -- read full article
AFP - The UN Security Council on Saturday unanimously adopted a resolution again urging Iran to suspend its sensitive nuclear fuel work but offering no new sanctions and merely reaffirming existing ones.
AP - Russia called Saturday for a revival of the global anti-terrorism coalition that formed after Sept. 11, 2001 but started to unravel with what it called the subsequent domination by a single power — a veiled reference to the United States. -- read full article
Reuters - When Russia invaded Georgia last month it acted like a colonial power determined to slice up and take over parts of its neighbor, the Czech Republic's foreign minister said on Saturday. -- read full article
AP - Nations concerned about Myanmar called on its military government Saturday to release all political prisoners, including pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, and to start talking with the opposition. -- read full article
Reuters - The U.N. Security Council unanimously passed a resolution on Saturday that again orders Iran to halt nuclear enrichment work but imposes none of the new sanctions Washington and its allies want.
AP - Arab nations will totally reject any partial or interim solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict because historically such arrangements have become permanent, Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said Saturday. -- read full article
Reuters - North Korea wants to press ahead with denuclearization of the Korean peninsula but is strengthening its "self-defensive capability" in the face of hostile U.S. policy, a North Korean official said on Saturday. -- read full article
AFP - The United Nations said on Sunday it would send food to those displaced by fighting in Sri Lanka's rebel-held north, two weeks after aid workers were ordered out of the region.
AP - Russia and the United States have reached a deal to seek a new U.N. resolution on Iran, Britain's U.N. ambassador said Friday. -- read full article
AP - Iraq's foreign minister says "there is a new world now" because of the global financial crisis and he hopes it won't lead to an immediate withdrawal of the 146,000 American troops in his country.
