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Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt is expected to meet with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus later this month.

Reports say Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has informed Jumblatt that the Syrian leadership wants to open a new chapter in relations with Lebanon.

Leaders of a number of Palestinian groups have called for a new Intifada and have said there should be no negotiations with Israel.

Hamas political bureau chief Khaled Meshaal called for the cancellation of direct and indirect talks with Israel during a meeting with the leaders of a number of Palestinian groups on Monday.

Pakistani policemen seize 1,500 kilograms of explosive material in an abandoned shop in Lahore, recently battered by a string of blasts.

Police Superintendent Ali Nasir said the huge cache discovered on Monday included bomb-making equipment, two suicide jackets, 16 hand-grenades and hundreds of bullets.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has refused to visit the grave of Theodor Herzl, the founder of modern Zionism.

In response to the rebuff, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman decided to boycott the Brazilian president's visit.

Two bomb explosions rock Nigeria's southern oil-rich city of Warri just outside the site of talks over granting amnesty to militants in the area.

The blasts took place minutes after a bomb threat issued by the region's main militant group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND).

Egyptian police arrest 15 students at Cairo University for taking part in anti-Israeli demonstrations.

A security official said on Monday that the detainees were associated with the banned opposition group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi predicts the healthcare reform bill will pass through the chamber.

Pelosi says when the bill comes to the House floor, it will have enough votes to pass.

The Sunday Herald has reported that hundreds of powerful US "bunker-buster" bombs are being shipped from California to the British island of Diego Garcia.

In January, the US government signed a contract to transport 10 ammunition containers to the island, the Scottish newspaper wrote on March 14.

One person has been killed in an early morning rocket attack on the largest US military hub north of the Afghan capital of Kabul, NATO says.

The US military did not give details of the Monday attack on Bagram Air Field. It also did not say whether the victim was from the military personnel or a civilian at the base.

India's test of a homemade missile defense shield, which was expected to find and demolish hostile ballistic missiles, have proven to be unsuccessful.

The Indian military officials dismantled the test on Monday after radars failed to keep track of a nuclear-capable missile expected to be detected and destroyed by an interceptor missile.