AFP - Belgian-Brazilian brewing giant InBev stood by its takeover offer for Anheuser-Busch on Tuesday after being turned down last week, but left the door open for a hostile bid.

AP - Israel closed its crossings with the Gaza Strip on Tuesday in response to a cross-border rocket attack, the military said.

AP - Secrecy surrounded the start of talks between envoys of the Dalai Lama and the Chinese government on Tuesday aimed at easing tensions following anti-government riots in Tibet in March.

AP - Helicopters and a bomber attacked insurgents massing in eastern Afghanistan under cover of darkness, killing an estimated 33 people, the U.S.-led coalition said Tuesday.

Reuters - Envoys from six countries plan to meet in Beijing next week to discuss how to advance an accord under which North Korea promised to abandon its nuclear weapons and programs, a U.S. official said on Monday.

AFP - Britain's biggest supermarket Tesco is to stop sourcing products from Zimbabwe due to international concern about the current political climate there, the company said in a statement Monday.

AP - Five Iraqi judges escaped assassination Monday in a series of small bomb attacks that police believe may be part of a Shiite extremist campaign to force them to free jailed militants or reduce their sentences.

AP - To host the Olympic sailing events, the Chinese port city of Qingdao moved a massive boat yard, relocated industries and spent about $850 million on transport links, parks, pollution controls and coastal green belts.

AP - Gaza's Hamas rulers said Monday they would stick to their tough line in talks over a captured Israeli soldier, emboldened by Israel's decision to trade a Lebanese prisoner convicted in a brutal attack for the bodies of two other Israeli servicemen.

AP - An explosion wrecked a militant compound Monday, killing as many as eight people while Pakistani paramilitary forces pushed deeper into a border region where extremists threaten the city of Peshawar and a key supply line for U.S. troops in Afghanistan.