A draft UN report on August 26 said that crimes by the Rwandan army and allied rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo could be classified as genocide.

France on August 26 repatriated 283 more illegal Roma migrants despite widening criticism of President Nicolas Sarkozy's campaign to crack down on illegal migration.

Fighting in Somalia's capital flared for a third straight day on August 25, killing eight people and pushing the week's death toll past 80 as insurgents tried to force government troops back toward the presidential palace, officials said.

Cuban leader Fidel Castro and President Raul Castro on August 25 received Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who was visiting Havana.

Thailand has restored its ambassadorial-level relationship with Cambodia after the latter announced ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has resigned as an advisor to the Cambodian Government, reported the National News of Thailand (NNT).

Just after the United States completed its drawdown of combat brigades in Iraq, militants on August 25 launched a wave of bombings across the country, mostly targeting security forces.

Ten passengers aboard a Congolese airliner were slightly injured on August 26 when the plane overshot the runway as it landed at a regional airport, witnesses and the airline said.

Mexican officials investigating the death of 72 people found murdered at a ranch in the north of the country say they were migrants trying to reach the United States.

Cuba's elderly will no longer be entitled to state-subsidised cigarettes, the government has said.

The government of Yichun, a city in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province corrected on Tuesday night's plane crash death toll to 42, saying one dead body that was torn apart in the disaster was formerly counted as two.