¤ Russia called on Iran to fully cooperate with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) during talks between the two countries in Moscow, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement yesterday.

¤ US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to the Middle East yesterday to ask Arab friends Egypt and Saudi Arabia to press for recognition of Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

¤ A car bomb killed at least 21 people in Baghdad yesterday hours after Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari angrily rejected US warnings to the Shi'ite majority to embrace sectarian rivals in a new government.

¤ A grand jury in Ohio indicted three men for conspiring to kill people and for planning attacks against US forces overseas, court documents showed yesterday.

¤ US Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said yesterday the Bush administration should put on hold a deal with a state-owned Dubai company to manage major US seaports, saying it needed a "more extensive review".

¤ The US Supreme Court said yesterday it will decide whether a ban on some abortion procedures is unconstitutional, a case that could show if the reshaped court will restrict a woman's right to abortion.

¤ Concerns rose yesterday for the welfare of survivors from a deadly Philippine landslide as chickenpox and other infectious diseases broke out in packed evacuation centres.

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