World highlights

• Israeli troops shot dead two Palestinian youths in the northern Gaza Strip close to the border with Israel and an air strike killed a militant in southern Gaza, Palestinian medical staff said yesterday.

• Ten people were killed and 30 wounded in a militant mortar attack on a Shi'ite district in southwestern Baghdad after nightfall, police said. Three houses were severely damaged and seven cars destroyed in the attack on the Um al-Maamlif district.

• Gunmen used dynamite and heavy machineguns to kidnap at least three senior managers of Indonesian chemical company Indorama in Nigeria's southern oil-producing Niger Delta, police said.

• Austrian police arrested Rakhat Aliyev, the Kazakh President's son-in-law and former ambassador to Austria, who is accused of kidnap and running a crime network in the Central Asian country.

• US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice reproached Spain in a visit yesteray for engaging Cuba, and said it needed to do more in Afghanistan. Ms Rice is the highest-level US official to come here since Spain withdrew troops from Iraq following its 2004 elections, which put a chill on relations between Washington and Madrid.

• Distraught parents Gerry and Kate McCann flew to Spain yesterday to widen the appeal for help in finding their four-year-old daughter Madeleine, abducted from a villa in neighbouring Portugal a month ago. The couple believe the girl could have been taken over the border soon after being snatched on May 3.

• US President George W. Bush yesterday strongly condemned Iran's detention of American citizens and called for them to be freed "immediately and unconditionally".

• Families of the victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in Bosnia will sue the Dutch state and the United Nations, which they blame in part for allowing the killings to happen, lawyers said yeserday. The law firm representing a group of about 6,000 family members said it would file a civil suit in the Netherlands on Monday.