DIYARBAKIR -- A Turkish soldier was killed and three more were wounded in a landmine explosion on Monday.
GROZNY -- Four members of the Russian security forces were killed and 10 wounded in Chechnya on Sunday, a local police source says.
BERLIN -- Interpol has launched an unprecedented global appeal to help identify a man shown abusing children in photos posted on the web.
THE HAGUE -- The Hague Tribunal president has complained to the UN about pressures from Croatia after the Vukovar Three verdict.
Gaza -- A prominent Palestinian Christian in the Gaza Strip was found dead on Sunday after being abducted near his home.
MOSCOW -- Relatives, friends and campaigners are marking the first anniversary of the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya.
LONDON -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown faced taunts Sunday he was a "bottler" forced into a "humiliating retreat".
MOSCOW -- A majority of Russians apparently want Vladimir Putin to continue to run the country when his term as president ends.
"Germany must have a free-trade zone in Europe. Germany also needs robust demand in Europe. Germany also wants prudence in borrowing practices. And Germany must not see a return to the anti-German feeling of previous epochs."
A spokesman for the NATO troops in Kosovo, KFOR, says that this international mission "does not think there are parallel and illegal institutions in northern (Serb-dominated) Kosovo".
The Human Rights Watch international NGO has published its 22nd annual World Report, summarizing human rights conditions in more than 90 countries and territories worldwide in 2011.