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Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered a range of assistance to the Palestinians after talks in Ramallah.

At least 22 people have been killed and more than 80 injured in a wave of car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in and around Baghdad.

The US chief weapons inspector, Charles Duelfer, has said inquiries into weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have "gone as far as feasible".

Former commander of US troops in Iraq Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez, and three of his top aides, have been cleared over abuses at Abu Ghraib jail in Iraq.

Tokyo's High Court has rejected an appeal for compensation by 10 Chinese survivors of Japanese germ warfare experiments during World War II.

The leaders of India and Pakistan have said that peace between the two nuclear rivals is "irreversible".

Iraq's new president has said the insurgency could be ended if authorities use Kurdish, Shia Muslim and other militias.

Beijing has no reason to apologise over a wave of anti-Japanese protests, Chinese Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing has said.

Cuba has said it will not co-operate in any form with a resolution passed against it by the United Nations Human Rights Commission in Geneva.

Detainees at Iraq's largest US-run jail have rioted, and bombers in Baghdad attacked US and Iraqi convoys.