World -- January 31, 2006

• Abbas says won't resign despite Hamas defeats ruling Fatah in election
• African Union outraged by renewed fighting in Darfur
• Blair for Iraqi invasion without 2nd UN resolution: report
• EU foreign ministers ask Hamas to renounce violence, recognize Israel
• Erekat urges Hamas to be committed to international legitimacy

• Foreign oil workers held hostage in Nigeria released
• Georgia closes airspace to Russian military planes
• India, Pakistan, Iran begin workshop on gas pipeline
• India tests surface-to-air Akash missile
• Kuwaiti emir accepts cabinet resignation

• Ministers blame Pakistan train derailment on saboteurs
• Militants begin targeting Afghan schools parallel to soldiers
• Middle East Quartet urge Hamas to abandon violence, recognize Israel
• Philippine government reassures Arroyo clear from election cheating
• Palestinian policemen storm parliament building in Gaza

• S. Korea, DPRK to hold working-level military talks
• S. Korea denounces Japanese FM remarks on Yasukuni Shrine
• U.S. not to support Hamas government, Bush says
• Visiting Forces Agreement with US beneficial to Philippines: official