• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice set out a new approach to reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts, saying she would pursue "parallel" talks with the two parties.

• US and Iraqi troops clashed with gunmen in a town south of Baghdad shortly after a Sunni mosque was bombed in apparent revenge for the destruction of a Shi'ite mosque there, a day earlier.

• Two hundred years after Britain's abolition of the slave trade, Africans blamed the modern-day problems of their continent on the crippling legacy of the trans-Atlantic traffic in human beings.

• Palestinian group Hamas agreed not to express any opposition to the Arab peace plan with Israel expected to be relaunched at an Arab summit in Riyadh on Wednesday, a senior Palestinian official said.

• The CIA has obtained intelligence alleging that the head of Colombia's US-backed army collaborated extensively with right-wing militias that Washington considers terrorist organisations, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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