Former U.S. President Bill Clinton, center, receives a bouquet of flowers upon his arrival at an airport in Pyongyang, North Korea, 04 Aug 2009

NOKOR - US JOURNALISTS:  Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, on an apparent mission to negotiate the release of two detained American journalists. Television footage showed Mr. Clinton being greeted at the airport Tuesday by the vice-president of North Korea's parliament and the regime's chief nuclear negotiator, Kim Kye Kwan. A young girl presented Mr. Clinton with a bouquet of flowers. A U.S. official traveling in Africa with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mr. Clinton's wife, confirmed the former president's trip.

Iran

US - IRAN - IRAQ:  Iranian state media are confirming Tuesday that Iran has detained three Americans on charges of entering from Iraq without permission. Iranian officials did not tell news agencies the identities of the Americans. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged Iran to provide information about three missing tourists, who are believed to have been detained Friday in Iran. Clinton told reporters Monday that the U.S. is working through the Swiss embassy in Tehran to determine the trio's whereabouts and bring them home. The United States and Iran do not have diplomatic ties.

Police search car in Melbourne suburb after pre-dawn raid, 4 Aug 2009

AUSTRALIA - TERROR:  Australian police have charged a man with conspiracy to commit a terrorist attack on an Australian army base. The man, identified as 25-year-old Nayaf El Sayed, was formally charged Tuesday during an appearance in a Melbourne courtroom. He is one of four Australian citizens detained by police earlier in the day during raids on 19 locations throughout Melbourne. Officials say the suspects, who range in age between 22 to 26, are of Somali and Lebanese descent.

China

CHINA - PLAGUE:  Authorities in northwest China say a third person has died from an outbreak of pneumonic plague. The latest victim is a 64-year-old man who lived in the ethnically Tibetan town of Ziketan in Qinghai province. Two other men have already died from the disease, including a 32-year-old herdsman. Nine other people, many of them relatives of the herdsman, have been hospitalized. Authorities have sealed off the town of 10,000 residents to prevent a further spread of the disease.

Handout photo taken on 13 May 2009, provided by Myanmar News Agency shows US Citizen John William Yettaw in Rangoon

BURMA - SUU KYI:  The American man at the center of the trial of Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been hospitalized. Sources say John Yettaw was admitted to Rangoon General Hospital Monday after suffering seizures. His condition is said to be improving. Yettaw is reported to suffer diabetes and other illnesses. Yettaw swam uninvited to Aung San Suu Kyi's lakeside Rangoon home in early May, and stayed there for two days with her permission. The incident led to Aung San Suu Kyi's arrest on charges of violating the terms of her house arrest.

THAILAND - PLANE CRASH:  Thai police say

A Bangkok Airways jetliner crashed into control tower at Koh Samui Airport, Thailand, 4 August 2009(AP Photo)

one person was killed and several other people injured when a passenger jet slid off an airport runway and slammed into acontrol tower on a Thai resort island. Authorities say a Bangkok Airways jetliner crashed after it landed on the popular tourist island of Koh Samui Tuesday during a rainstorm. The plane was flying from the western town of Krabi. Officials say the jetliner's pilot was killed in the crash.  The plane was carrying at least 70 people.

A US soldier carries part of an MRAP vehicle damaged after an IED attack in Afghanistan's Wardak province, 03 Aug  2009

AFGHANISTAN:  Afghan officials say at least eight rockets hit the Afghan capital, Kabul, Tuesday, wounding a man and child. Officials say at least one of the rockets fell near the U.S. embassy, while others were reported to have slammed into an area close to the city's international airport. The Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying it targeted the airport and an Afghan military base. Meanwhile, in the southern province of Zabul Tuesday, a suicide bomber blew himself up near an intelligence agency vehicle, killing an intelligence official and four civilians.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, 24 Jul 2009

CLINTON - AFRICA:  U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrives in Kenya Tuesday to start a seven-nation African tour intended to show the region is a priority for the Obama administration. Clinton's 11-day trip will be her longest since becoming the top U.S. diplomat in January. Wednesday she will address a Nairobi forum that seeks to boost U.S. trade with about 40 African states. Clinton also will meet Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki and Prime Minister Raila Odinga.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas (File)

PALESTINIAN POLITICS:  The Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has opened its first congress in 20 years, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem. Mr. Abbas spoke Tuesday at the start of the three-day convention. He said Palestinians hope to form a future state that lives alongside Israel "in peace and security", but added that Palestinian "resistance" remains an option. Fatah plans to adopt a new political platform at the meeting. Some 2,300 delegates will also elect members to the party's two most important decision-making institutions (the Central Committee and the Revolutionary Council).

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