Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - South Korea said Tuesday discussions were under way to bring the foreign ministers of six nations involved in talks on the North's nuclear aims together on the sidelines of a regional meeting.
Minsk (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Venezuela and Belarus have created a strategic alliance that will include military cooperation, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said during a visit to a military academy in Minsk.
Ankara (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for NATO to join the combat against mounting violence by Kurdish rebels holed up in northern Iraq, the Anatolia news agency reported.
Tyre, Lebanon (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - A family of seven, including at least two children, was killed when an Israeli missile slammed into their home in southern Lebanon early Tuesday, police said.
Taipei (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - AU Optronics Corp, the world's third biggest flat-panel maker, posted Tuesday a sharp fall in net profits in the three months to June as competition kept the pressure on prices.
Ankara (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - The Turkish Red Cross on Tuesday dispatched 20.8 tonnes of urgent humanitarian aid to Lebanon, crippled by Israeli air strikes, a spokesman for the agency said.
Tbilisi (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - A convoy of 500 Georgian soldiers headed to a volatile mountainous region Tuesday near the breakaway province of Abkhazia to disarm a local militia force, Georgia's Imedi television channel said.
Jerusalem (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - The Israeli army will limit its ground offensive against Hezbollah to southern Lebanon to wipe out the militia's infrastructure, a senior army officer said Tuesday.
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - South Korea said Tuesday efforts are under way to hold six-nation talks on the North's nuclear ambitions, at an Asian security forum where the issue promises to dominate the agenda.
Wieliczka, Poland (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - The defence ministers of France, Germany and Poland, which make up the Weimar Triangle, met in this southern Polish city Tuesday for talks focussed on the crisis in the Middle East.
Tripoli (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor accused of infecting hundreds of Libyan children with the AIDS virus appeared in court on Tuesday in the retrial of a case for which they were originally condemned to death by firing squad.
Hong Kong (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Britain said Tuesday Hong Kong had made little or no visible progress towards democratic reforms and urged an early transition to full democracy in its former colony.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Nearly 250 people are dead or missing in North Korea from heavy floods and landslides that washed away entire villages and destroyed vital crops this month, the International Red Cross said here Tuesday.
Tyre, Lebanon (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Nations striving to evacuate the last of their citizens from the Middle East conflict concentrated their operations Tuesday on southern Lebanon, the scene of relentless Israeli air strikes.
Rome (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi will travel in September to China, which is hosting a year of Italian cultural events, his office said Tuesday.
Beijing (AFP) Jul 25, 2006 - Typhoon Kaemi struck the southeast coast of China on Tuesday, sparking the evacuation of over 500,000 people in an area still reeling from a tropical storm that claimed over 600 lives.
