Kuala Lumpur (Agencies): A row erupted on Thursday at the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) summit over an attempt by North Korea to blame the United States for the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, delegates said.

Sydney, Australia (Reuters): Australia's xenophobic One Nation party has issued an anti-Islamic leaflet asking voters "Is there a mosque coming near you?" in the campaign for the March 22 New South Wales state election.

Philippines (Reuters): The Philippine army said on Thursday a Moro rebel was killed while planting a bomb in a crowded market after guerrillas killed 14 villagers in another area of the southern island of Mindanao.

Tehran (Associated Press): Search teams pressed through fog, rain and strong wind on Thursday to recover some mutilated bodies from the mountainous site of a military plane crash that killed all 302 Iranian soldiers aboard, the official Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) reported.

Baghdad/Moscow (Agencies): Iraqi President Saddam Hussein met his most senior political and military aides on Thursday to discuss army and civilian preparations for an eventual U.S.-led war against him, the state news agency INA reported.

Paris (Agence France-Presse): French President Jacques Chirac on Thursday told some 45 African heads of state and government that the world's poorest continent has the "power to break out of the cycle of poverty and under-development."

Washington (Reuters): The United States is sending 750 American ground troops to the Philippines to conduct joint operations with Filipino combat patrols fighting Muslim rebels, a Pentagon official said on Thursday.

Reuters (Canberra): A short war with Iraq could cost the world one percent of its economic output over the next few years and more than US$1 trillion by 2010, Australian researchers said in a report on Thursday.

Singapore (Agence France-Presse): A multilateral trading systemis the best option for Asia's export driven economies and a successful World Trade Organization (W'I'O) meeting in Mexico will be crucial, a Singapore minister said on Thursday.

Tunica, Mississippi (Reuters): Mike Tyson and Clifford Etienne were back in the gym on Wednesday, both fighters pulling back on threats to withdraw from Saturday's heavyweight bout.