The trial of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and six of his aides believed to be involved in crimes against Kurdish population in the 1980s resumed in Baghdad on Tuesday.

Tbilisi and Moscow both expressed optimism for the upcoming meeting of their foreign ministers in Moscow this week to break the stalemate of strained relations.

The trial of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and six of his aides believed to be involved in crimes against Kurdish population in the 1980s resumed in Baghdad on Tuesday.

South African President Thabo Mbeki Tuesday called on African leaders not to slip back into conflict while dealing with conflict resolution.

Armed warriors in northeastern Uganda have killed 16 Ugandan soldiers including a battalion commander, a statement said on Tuesday.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan hailed on Tuesday the announcement of the resumption of six- party talks on the nuclear program on the Korean Peninsula.

Ghazi Hamad, spokesman of the Hamas- led government, said on Tuesday that the movement would be the one which would name prime minister of any new government.

The UN General Assembly on Tuesday remained deadlocked after total 47 rounds of voting in the contest to fill a non-permanent seat on the Security Council for the Latin American and Caribbean region.

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney has became the latest member of the Bush administration to weigh in against the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, describing that the 2002 corporate governance law may have gone "too far," The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday.

Fifteen people were killed and 19 were injured when a car bomb ripped through a wedding ceremony in northeastern Baghdad on Tuesday, a well-informed Interior Ministry source told Xinhua.