World -- February 17, 2006

• Annan urges more global help for peace, development in Africa
• Annan urges U.S. to close Guantanamo detention center
• Barroso urges Serbia-Montenegro to extradite war crimes suspects
• Batman returns to wage war on al-Qaida
• Chertoff admits Katrina failures

• France accuses Iran of secret nuke programme
• Iraqi Gov't probes police death squad claims
• Japan eyes troops withdrawal from Iraq in March: report
• Latin American women gain, but sexism persists
• Preval becomes Haitian president after election deal

• Portugal parliament approves new nationality law
• Rice urges DPRK to return to six-party talks
• Rice acknowledges mistakes in training Iraqi forces
• Sunken Egyptian ferry located: official
• Sweden named world leader in globalization

• US Senate committee approves Fed, CEA nominations
• US rejects UN's call to close Guantanamo prison
• UN chief respects decision of people of Tokelau regarding self-government
• UN chief criticizes publication of new prisoner abuse pictures