STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - The United States will prod Sunni Arab states to offer more support to the Iraqi government at a conference in Sweden this week as a way of countering the growing influence of non-Arab Iran in Iraq.\n
SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea\'s \"wild geese fathers\" manage a reunion with their children, and often wives, just once a year after seeing them off for study abroad, invariably to learn in English.\n
OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier resigned on Monday after it emerged he had left classified documents in the apartment of a former girlfriend who was once linked to organized crime figures.\n
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A Darfur rebel group threatened on Monday to launch new attacks on Khartoum and central Sudan, amid fears that the region\'s peace process was unraveling.\n
KISANGANI, Congo (Reuters) - A small faction of Rwandan Hutu rebels in east Democratic Republic of Congo pledged on Monday to lay down their guns and return home, but the main rebel movement refused and rejected the ceremony as a sham.\n
YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar\'s military rulers tightened security around the home of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday, the day her latest year-long stretch of house arrest is due to expire.\n
YANGON (Reuters) - Foreign aid workers headed for the cyclone-ravaged Irrawaddy delta on Monday to see whether army-ruled Myanmar will honor a promise made by its top general to give them freedom of movement.\n
MIANZHU, China (Reuters) - Chinese soldiers were working around the clock on Tuesday to dig a giant sluice to ease pressure on a swelling \"quake lake\", with plans to evacuate 100,000 people to avert a new disaster, state media said.\n
