JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Members of Israel’s ruling party began voting on Wednesday for a new leader to replace Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who has promised to resign following a corruption investigation in which he faces indictment.

A double car bomb attack on the US embassy in Yemen has killed at least 16 people, Yemeni officials say.

A double bombing in a west Baghdad business district has killed at least eight people and wounded another 20, Iraqi police say.

Three US soldiers have been charged with murder over the deaths of four Iraqis in Baghdad, the US army says.

A gunfight between rival Christian political groups in northern Lebanon has left two people dead and three wounded, security officials say.

Rescue workers have ended a search for survivors in a Cairo slum where 10 days earlier a landslide buried dozens of homes, killing at least 90 people.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Tuesday that the Caucasus does not need NATO interference in the region in the wake of the recent conflict in Georgia.

TEHRAN (FNA)- A former Pakistani official said Tehran and Islamabad are required to form a military alliance in a bid to thwart the plots hatched by the US against the two Muslim nations.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Tuesday that his country may not cut ties with Iran, reiterating that Tehran and Damascus would remain two strategic partners in the region.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran’s biggest petrochemical complex for PVC production in the southwestern province of Khuzestan has reached the pre-operation stage, an official said.