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FROM TODAY'S BOSTON GLOBE

Strike by Iran traders widens (AP Photo)

Strike by Iran traders widens

A strike in Iran's traditional bazaars expanded yesterday despite an order by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to suspend a new sales tax that ignited the protest more than a week ago. Carpet and textile merchants joined the strike, keeping stalls (above) in Tehran's main market shuttered. (By Nazila Fathi, Boston Globe)

Europeans mull restart
of Russia partnership talks

European Union nations will this week study whether to restart stalled negotiations with Russia on a broad partnership pact after Moscow pulled its troops from buffer zones around two breakaway regions in Georgia. (By Mark John, Reuters)

North Korea lauds removal from US terror list

North Korea welcomed its removal yesterday from Washington's terrorism blacklist and said it would resume disabling its nuclear weapons facilities, allowing US and UN monitors back into its main nuclear complex. (By Choe Sang-Hun and Helene Cooper, International Herald Tribune)
Daily Briefing

Progress reported on new coalition

Israel's Kadima and Labor parties are close to a deal on a coalition government led by Tzipi Livni, a move that sets her on course to form a new centrist administration, Army Radio said yesterday. (Boston Globe)

South African party leader
strives to reassure world

Jacob Zuma has a problem: He scares some people. The leader of the ruling African National Congress, now in line to become South Africa's next president, faces unresolved corruption allegations. (By Robyn Dixon, Los Angeles Times)

Muslim political group in Egypt
faces challenge from within

He was a boy in the mosques of Alexandria when the Muslim Brotherhood took him into its fold, inviting him to soccer matches and trips to the seaside. (By Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times)

Bomb, sniper attacks kill 15
people in Mosul, Baghdad

Suicide car bombers struck twice yesterday in the northern city of Mosul, killing at least six people and wounding dozens of others, US and Iraqi officials said. A car bomb killed seven other people in Baghdad. (By Robert H. Reid, Associated Press)

US general upbeat on Afghan war

The top NATO general in Afghanistan yesterday rejected the idea that NATO is losing the Afghanistan war to an increasingly bloody Taliban insurgency. (By Jason Straziuso, Associated Press)

Pakistani to visit old ally
at time of tension with US

President Asif Ali Zardari is scheduled to visit China for four days starting tomorrow, in an effort to reinforce Pakistan's ties with a traditional ally at a time when relations with the United States have come under considerable strain. (By Salman Masood, New York Times News Service)

LATEST WORLD NEWS FROM AP AND REUTERS

ASIA

Photos of North Korean leader add to uncertainly

The first photos of North Korean leader Kim Jong Il released in two months show him in a setting very similar to photographs from August. (AP, 3 p.m.)
ASIA

N.Korea to resume disabling atom reactor Tuesday: IAEA

North Korea will resume disabling the reactor at its plutonium-making nuclear complex on Tuesday, the International Atomic Energy Agency said on Monday. (Reuters, 2:57 p.m.)
EUROPE

U.S. to take part in Russia-Georgia talks: diplomats

The United States will join the talks Russia and Georgia are holding on Wednesday following their war in August, diplomats said on Monday. (Reuters, 2:57 p.m.)
EUROPE

Iceland officially requests IMF help for crisis

Iceland has officially requested financing from the International Monetary Fund, an IMF official said on Monday, part of efforts to combat a crisis that has overwhelmed its once-flourishing financial sector. (Reuters, 2:57 p.m.)
EUROPE

France's first lady involved in ex-terrorist case

France's first lady has become personally involved in the case of a former leftist terrorist from Italy, visiting the severely depressed woman in a hospital, the president said Monday. (AP, 2:55 p.m.)