Iranian Ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Reza Sheibani has said that his country is prepared to provide Lebanon with anti-aircraft missiles, Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star reported on Monday.

Four people were wounded and three others were reported missing in floods which hit Semdinli town of Turkey's southeastern province of Hakkari, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Monday.

Nepali guerrilla top leader Prachanda will make his first public address in 25 years in a mass meeting in the capital.

A U.S. helicopter crashed in northern Iraq's Salahuddin province on Monday, killing two U.S. soldiers on board, the military said in a statement.

A Border Patrol Police unit has withdrawn from its temporary base at a school in Thai southern border province Yala Monday following Sunday's protest by some 300 villagers, Thai News Agency reported.

A spokesman for the ruling Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) announced early on Monday that it had agreed with President Mahmoud Abbas on forming a national unity government on condition of keeping the right of choosing the prime minister.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was taken out of an intensive care unit Monday morning, the Sheba Medical Center where Sharon was receiving treatment confirmed to Xinhua.

A Palestinian teenager was killed and five others were wounded on Monday morning in a fresh Israeli air strike on the northern Gaza Strip, medics and witnesses reported.

The Indonesian police would deploy 18,000 personnel to the capital city to anticipate rallies against the visit by U.S. President George W. Bush scheduled for Nov. 20.

Three U.S. soldiers, including two marines, have been killed in Iraq's western province of Anbar, the U.S. military said on Monday.