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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia says it has arrested eight "Eritrean-trained" rebels suspected of carrying out bombings that rocked the capital Addis Ababa and killed eight people earlier this year.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Suspicions of fraud mounted on Sunday against Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert with the publication in a newspaper of what it said were invoices backing police allegations he made duplicate claims for travel expenses.

KABUL (Reuters) - Insurgents killed nine U.S. soldiers in an assault on an Afghan army and NATO outpost in northeastern Afghanistan on Sunday, making it one of the worst days for foreign troops casualties in the country since 2001.

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Samak Sundaravej, who lost two ministers after tough court rulings, said on Sunday he would rewrite the army-designed constitution, a move likely to intensify street protests to oust him.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, visited Pakistan on the weekend, fueling speculation that the United States was about to take action against militants in northwest Pakistan.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea said on Sunday it was "unimaginable" for a North Korean soldier to shoot dead a unarmed housewife vacationing at a resort in the North, calling on it to come clean over the incident damaging already strained ties.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe on Saturday welcomed the failure of a Western-backed U.N. Security Council resolution to impose sanctions over its violent presidential elections, calling it a victory over racism and meddling in its affairs.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Pope Benedict arrived in Australia on Sunday for an international Catholic youth festival and promised to apologize for a sexual abuse scandal that has rocked the church in the country.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan formally asked the Arab League on Saturday to hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers after reports the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor may seek the arrest of Sudan's president.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran would destroy Israel and 32 U.S. military bases in the Middle East if the Islamic Republic was attacked over its disputed nuclear program, a senior Iranian official was quoted as saying on Saturday.

PARIS (Reuters) - Leaders from Europe, North Africa and the Middle East launched a 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean on Sunday pledging practical cooperation among erstwhile enemies on water, energy and education.

LOD, Israel (Reuters) - Prime Minister Ehud Olmert accused Israeli police on Saturday of leaking parts of a newly-revealed investigation into whether he committed fraud by submitting duplicate travel expense claims.

PARIS (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will make history and seal detente with Europe on Sunday when he attends the launch of a French-inspired 43-nation Union for the Mediterranean alongside Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Former South African President Nelson Mandela on Saturday called for more solidarity to end conflicts that have sown hatred and division around the world.

NIAMEY (Reuters) - Tuareg-led rebels in Niger have fired mortars in an attack on the main town in the uranium-producing north, but authorities said on Saturday there had been no serious damage or casualties.

PUERTO MONTT, Chile (Reuters) - Sheltered from a Patagonia downpour, Efraim Zuroff sits outside the house of the daughter of the most-wanted Nazi thought to be alive, waiting.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Police began beefing up security in parts of the Malaysian capital on Saturday in case of possible opposition-led street protests next week against the ruling coalition.

BERLIN (Reuters) - A former Berlin police officer who tore off the head of an Adolf Hitler waxwork at a new museum in the German capital will probably not have to pay for damages because he is destitute, a magazine reported on Saturday.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy met his Egyptian counterpart Hosni Mubarak on Saturday, kicking off a round of diplomacy with Middle East leaders ahead of an EU-Mediterranean summit on Sunday.

CAIRO (Reuters) - Sudan formally asked the Arab League on Saturday to hold an emergency meeting of foreign ministers after reports the International Criminal Court's (ICC) prosecutor may seek the arrest of Sudan's president.