Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that he sees no possibility of a war between his country and the United States or Israel.

He also predicted Israel would collapse without Iranian action.

Aid for Africa — and whether enough was coming from the world's major economic powers — was in the spotlight Monday as the Group of Eight nations met with seven African leaders at its annual summit.

A car bomb ripped through the front wall of the Indian Embassy in central Kabul on Monday, killing 40 people in the deadliest attack in Afghanistan's capital since the fall of the Taliban, officials said.

The U.S. Defense Department has extended the combat tour of 2,200 Marines in Afghanistan after insisting for months the unit would come home on time.

 South African President Thabo Mbeki says anti-immigrant attacks that left 62 dead must never be repeated.

Mbeki spoke Thursday at a ceremony organized by his government in honor of the immigrants and South Africans caught up in the May violence.

The issues are as difficult as ever, but the conditions are likely to be more conducive to agreement as President Bush attends his eighth and final economic summit of industrial democracies

A U.S. Christian group said Tuesday it will find a new location for its goodwill trips to Jamaica after 39 young missionaries were robbed at gunpoint in the crime-prone capital of Kingston.

Not long after two top commanders of Latin America's last major rebel army were killed — one in a raid, the other by a turncoat bodyguard — Diego Canizares decided to call it quits.

Millions are at risk of hunger in Zimbabwe if the government fails to lift its ban on aid agencies, the U.N. humanitarian chief warned Tuesday.

SHARM EL-SHEIK, Egypt (AP) _ Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe entered an African summit accompanied by the meeting's host Monday, a sign that African leaders won't shun him despite Western demands they take a tough stance over his re-election in a tainted ballot.

Crime rates in South Africa — among the highest in the world — are declining with fewer robberies, rapes and murders reported in the last year, police said Monday.

Widespread voter intimidation and low turnout marked Zimbabwe's one-candidate presidential runoff Friday, further damaging the vote designed to bolster longtime President Robert Mugabe's credibility.

More than ever before, authorities waging the global war on drugs are up against real insurgents.

Worldwide, illicit cultivation of opium and coca — the raw materials for heroin and cocaine — is rising as militants in Afghanistan, Colombia and Myanmar consolidate their control of key drug-producing areas, the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime warns in a new report.

Former U.N. chief Kofi Annan called for "climate justice" Tuesday with polluters paying for the damage they cause.

"We must recognize that the polluter must pay, and not the poor and vulnerable," Annan said at the first high-level meeting of the new humanitarian organization he heads.

"We must have climate justice," the former U.N. secretary-general told the Global Humanitarian Forum.

America's ambassador to Zimbabwe has pioneered the role of diplomat as investigative journalist, keeping the focus on allegations Robert Mugabe's government has launched a brutal campaign against dissent.

Over the weekend, the U.S. Embassy in Zimbabwe's capital, Harare, released footage shot during one of the fact-finding tours James McGee has led in rural Zimbabwe to chronicle political violence.

Palestinian militants on Tuesday fired three homemade rockets into southern Israel, the first such attack since a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza militants took effect last week.

Israel condemned the attack as a "gross violation" of the truce, but did not say whether it would retaliate.

The barrage wounded two people and capped a day of violence that presented the truce with its first serious test.