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US president-elect Barack Obama has said in an interview that he hopes to make the White House environmentally friendly, and encouraged fellow Americans to follow suit.

Iran would welcome talks between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S. President-elect Barack Obama, the country's vice president said in an interview with Japan's Kyodo news agency

Afghanistan is not in a security crisis and disillusionment and recriminations about its situation should be avoided, a UN Security Council team said at the end of a three-day assessment tour.

Russia and Brazil will become world economic growth leaders despite the nasty crisis, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday.

Russia is still failing to meet its ceasefire obligations with Georgia and Washington's European allies must not overlook this and rush to embrace Moscow, a senior U.S. official said on Tuesday.

The United States has not pressured Israel to rule out military action in order to halt Iran's nuclear program, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Tuesday after talks with President George W. Bush.

Foreign Secretary David Miliband held talks with President Hamid Karzai on a surprise visit to Afghanistan Tuesday and met British troops in the fight against extremists, officials said.

President-elect Barack Obama Monday named some of "the best minds in America" headed by Timothy Geithner as Treasury secretary to revive the stricken US economy through aggressive government intervention.

UNDP Tajik office issued press release on a message by the Un Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on the International Day of Elimination of Violence against Women. Across the world, in countries rich and poor, women are being beaten, trafficked, raped and killed.

Russia's president told his Peruvian counterpart on Monday that Russia wants to develop joint bilateral energy and military cooperation.