Visiting French Defense Minister Michele Alliot-Marie Sunday expressed her hope in a press conference in Amman that the death penalty against former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein would not lead to more violence in Iraq.

Two foreign oil workers kidnapped during a raid on a Norwegian oil services ship in southern Nigeria will be freed no later than Monday, a government official said on Sunday.

The internal affairs of a country should not be intervened by anyone outside, Russian Foreign Ministry said Sunday in an official comment warning against outside influence in the trial and verdict of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein.

Experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have inspected Iran's second cascade of centrifuges used for uranium enrichment, the official IRNA news agency reported on Sunday.

Pakistani Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz Sunday suggested Muslim countries to take integrated and calibrated measures to realize the Muslim economic renaissance.

Malawi Police have arrested 14 employees of a local hotel on suspicion that they possessed fake Malawi Schools Certificate of Education (MSCE) and Junior Certificate of Education (JCE), Nation Online of Malawi reported Sunday.

Sitting in his small store in northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun and watching the empty street, fruits and vegetables vendor Ahmed al-Mughrabi desired the visit of customers, who were unlikely to go out for shopping as Israeli military operation continued in this area.

Iraq's Interior Ministry shut down two Sunni Arab local television stations for inciting violence after Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced the former leader Saddam Hussein to death Sunday.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Sunday that his government supports complete equal rights for Israeli Arabs in response to remarks against Arab- Israelis by Avigdor Lieberman, local media reported.

The presidential election in Tajikistan is well prepared and will be fair and transparent, the Central Asian nation's election chief said on Sunday.