COPENHAGEN, Denmark Copenhagen Airports will build a new 200 million kroner ($26.4 million) terminal for low-cost airlines.

BUCHAREST, Romania Some 7,000 workers and trade unionists have marched around the Romanian parliament to demand higher salaries and better working conditions.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka Sri Lanka's top opposition party called Tuesday for an international investigation into a bomb attack the previous day that killed a popular former army general and 26 others.

STOCKHOLM, Sweden Two Japanese and an American have won the 2008 Nobel Prize for discoveries in the world of subatomic physics, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced Tuesday.

PRISTINA, Kosovo The United States will continue its troop presence in Kosovo until at least late next year, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said just before he arrived here Tuesday, reaffirming U.S. support for the newly declared nation in the face of stern opposition from Russia.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan Afghan refugees were flowing over the border from a Pakistani battle zone Tuesday after officials accused them of links with Taliban militants and ordered them out, police said.

BANGKOK, Thailand Riot police using tear gas clashed Tuesday with several thousand protesters who barricaded Parliament while trying to block Thailand's new prime minister from delivering his first policy speech to lawmakers. Scores of protesters were injured.

BEIJING Rescuers rushed tents, food and water to villagers in Tibet on Tuesday after an earthquake and scores of aftershocks rattled the capital and surrounding areas, killing at least 10 people and collapsing hundreds of houses.

BAGHDAD Recurrent violence in oil-rich parts of Nigeria may provide a sobering lesson for oil companies hoping to work in Iraq - a place that is much more dangerous despite the fact that attacks are at their lowest level in more than four years.

NAIROBI, Kenya The American author of a best-selling book attacking Barack Obama is being detained in Kenya because he does not have a work permit, a senior immigration official said Tuesday.

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia Vladimir Putin is out on video as a judo expert.

SEOUL, South Korea The United States and North Korea are being flexible in their effort to reach a compromise to resolve the dispute in the North's nuclear disarmament process, South Korea's foreign minister said Tuesday.

BAGHDAD The U.S. military says an American soldier has been fatally shot by an al-Qaida in Iraq extremist. An Iraqi policeman was also killed in the fighting.

TEHRAN, Iran A top Iranian military official on Tuesday urged Iraq to reject a proposed U.S.-Iraqi security deal, calling the agreement a "disgrace."

MOGADISHU, Somalia A Somali pirate on a hijacked cargo ship transporting tanks reduced the ransom Tuesday to $8 million (euro5.87 million), but it was unclear if he was speaking officially for the bandits holding the Ukrainian vessel.

BAGHDAD The U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal to keep U.S. troops in this country next year but it will take "bold political decisions" to overcome the final hurdles, Iraq's foreign minister said Tuesday.

BERLIN A German official says Chancellor Angela Merkel's Cabinet has decided to extend the country's military mission in Afghanistan.

ANKARA, Turkey Turkish warplanes bombed suspected Kurdish rebel positions in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey on Tuesday, in new air strikes responding to an attack that killed 17 soldiers at a military outpost four days ago.

LUXEMBOURG An emergency meeting of European Union finance ministers debated raising guarantees for private savings across the 27-nation bloc on Tuesday in an attempt at a coordinated response to the global financial crisis.

BEIJING A planned multibillion dollar U.S. arms sale to Taiwan threatens China's national security and has cast a pall over military relations between Beijing and Washington, the foreign ministry said Tuesday.

VERACRUZ, Mexico Tropical Storm Marco was closing in on Mexico's coast early Tuesday and threatened to hit with near-hurricane strength winds later in the day.

SRINAGAR, India Schools, businesses and government offices reopened Tuesday and vehicles were back on the streets in Indian Kashmir as authorities lifted a two-day curfew in the troubled Himalayan region.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Dubai court documents say that a verdict in the trial of a British couple accused of having sex on a beach will be pronounced next week.

TOKYO Three sumo wrestlers and a former instructor went on trial Tuesday for allegedly beating a younger wrestler to death during training last year.

BANGKOK, Thailand A Thai official says Deputy Prime Minister Chavalit Yongchaiyudh has tendered his resignation to take responsibility for violent clashes outside Parliament between police and protesters.

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VERACRUZ, Mexico Tropical Storm Marco was closing in on Mexico's coast early Tuesday and threatened to hit with near-hurricane strength winds later in the day.

GUATEMALA CITY An armed man in a jealous rage took 42 hostages in a Guatemala City call center on Monday and released them unharmed and turned himself to police after a five-hour standoff, police said.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim slammed a government bid to move his sodomy trial from a lower court to the High Court, saying Tuesday that he fears he will end up facing a biased judge.

PHNOM PENH, Cambodia The U.N. food agency is resuming free breakfasts for hundreds of thousands of poor Cambodian schoolchildren after securing new funds for a program suspended due to high food prices, the agency said Tuesday.

CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands Lawyers for three U.S. Virgin Islands men accused of beating and stabbing to death a 21-year-old Pennsylvania man argued Monday that media pressure pushed prosecutors to pin their clients with false charges.

BEIJING China's Cabinet vowed a complete overhaul of the scandal-ridden dairy industry Monday, pledging to inspect every link from the farm to the dinner table to try to restore public trust in Chinese-made food products.

UNITED NATIONS The U.N. mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and the separatist Abkhazia region should be extended for four months to explore whether to continue U.N. involvement following the Georgian-Russian war, the U.N. chief said Monday.

KABUL, Afghanistan A former Taliban ambassador said Monday that the hard-line militants sat with Afghan officials and Saudi King Abdullah over an important religious meal in Saudi Arabia late last month as the insurgency raged back home.

BEIRUT, Lebanon The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation - a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to Washington.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan A wave of violence from Islamic extremists against politicians in Pakistan intensified Monday with a suicide bombing at the home of an opposition lawmaker that left at least 18 dead.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Hamas will cease to recognize Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president after Jan. 8 and replace him with one of its own leaders, according to a resolution approved by the Islamic movement's legislators Monday.

GENEVA A bad electrical connection likely caused the malfunction that sidelined the world's largest atom smasher days after it was launched with great fanfare, a senior scientist said Monday.

NEVE ILAN, Israel The television show "Big Brother" will confront a new reality in Israel Wednesday evening with the start of Yom Kippur.

TORONTO A man accused of beheading and cannibalizing a fellow bus passenger in Canada has been declared fit to stand trial, his lawyer said Monday.

MOGADISHU, Somalia Mortar rounds slammed into a market in Somalia's capital on Monday, killing at least 17 people, after a failed insurgent attack on the presidential palace.

MOSCOW Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert came to Moscow on Monday aiming to focus on Russian arms sales to Israel's enemies at meetings Russia hopes will bolster its image as a Middle East peacemaker.

PARIS The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners Monday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks.

KHAR, Pakistan Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters.

JERUSALEM Five Palestinians are suing the Israeli government for $430,000 because Jewish settlers seized their West Bank land for an unauthorized outpost.

The Eid al Fitr has come for all Muslims, Sunni and Shiite, in Iraq. The holiday, when Muslims celebrate the end of Ramadan, a month of fasting when Muslims believe the holy book of the Quran was revealed to the prophet Mohammed, was once again marked with revelry and tragedy.

VATICAN CITY A top rabbi addressing a worldwide meeting of Roman Catholic bishops at the Vatican on Monday condemned the Iranian president's verbal attacks on Israel.

JERUSALEM Three Israeli security figures said Monday they were duped into taking part in an ad supporting Barack Obama made by the same group that was behind comedian Sarah Silverman's "Great Schlep."

LONDON Russia and Georgia could be suspended from Europe's top human rights body unless the two countries uphold their obligations to prevent abuses in the aftermath of their short but fierce war, the group's head said Monday.

THE HAGUE, Netherlands Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic wants U.N. war crimes prosecutors to turn over any evidence they have about an alleged deal he cut to avoid prosecution, saying he wants to use it in a motion to have his indictment dismissed.