World -- May 26, 2006

• 1,000 al-Qaida suspects arrested from Pakistan: report
• Annan sends seasoned envoy to Timor-Leste as deadly violence flares
• Bush orders items seized in lawmaker's office sealed
• Bush, Blair maintain stand on Iraq
• Bush refuses to set timetable for pullout from Iraq

• Bush, Blair defend Iraq policy
• Croatia to be among first countries to recognize Montenegro, says premier
• EU, Russia reiterate common ground on Iran
• Israel to deliver arms to Abbas' presidential guard
• Roundup: Abbas calls for referendum, violence between Hamas, Fatah continues

• Russia, EU to continue energy dialogue
• Roundup: Top UN envoy condemns resumption of fighting in Mogadishu
• Roundup: Russia, EU talk energy, seal visa deal at Sochi summit
• Sri Lankan political parties agree on electoral reform
• Sudan to let in int'l assessment team

• Two U.S. soldiers killed in Baghdad bomb attack
• UN deployment in Sudan's Darfur not agreed
• U.S. Senate OKs immigration reform bill
• Writethru: Sudan, UN agree to set up committee to study deployment of UN force in Darfur