Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms killed 13 civilians in a village near Baghdad on Monday, a local police source said. Gunmen stormed the Sunni village of Zauba and conducted a search operation, detaining 13 villagers and executing them just outside the village before they fled the scene, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. (Iraq-Killing) TEHRAN -- Iranian president's senior advisor Parviz Davoudi said Monday that Iran favors to receive West's high grade uranium first and then send its domestically enriched low grade uranium abroad, the official IRNA news agency reported. 'Should we reach an agreement in our nuclear talks with the West, we would first receive the 20 percent enriched fuel and then send the 3.5 percent fuel abroad,' Parviz Davoudi was quoted as saying. (Iran-Nuclear Issue) SANAA -- Yemeni rebels asked on Monday the Arab League (AL) to interfere in the running conflict with Saudi Arabia and work to stop the Saudi assault against them. The rebel group Monday posted on the internet a statement for its leader Abdel Malik al-Houthi in which he called on AL Secretary General Amr Moussa to work for stopping Saudi attacks against them. (Yemen-Arab-League) RAMALLAH -- The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) on Monday said Israel doesn't want peace to prevail in the Middle East. The negative Israeli response to the Palestinian intention to grab the UN recognition of a Palestinian statehood 'shows that Israel doesn't want peace and doesn't want a Palestinian statehood to be established,' said Nabil Abu Rdineh, spokesman of President Mahmoud Abbas. (Palestinians-Israel-Statehood) KHARTOUM -- Senior official of the Communist Party of China ( CPC) Zhou Yongkang arrived in Khartoum on Monday, kicking off his three-day official goodwill visit to Sudan. Zhou, a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Central Committee Political Bureau, visits Sudan at the invitation of Sudan's ruling National Congress Party (NCP). (Sudan-China-Visit) KIRKUK -- At least six people were killed and eight others injured in a car bomb explosion in central of the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk on Monday, a local police chief said. The incident occurred at sunset when a booby-trapped car parked at the Salahudin Street in the Khan al-Tamr neighborhood, Brigadier Sarhat Abdul Qader told Xinhua. (Iraq-Car Bomb) CAIRO -- An Egyptian foreign ministry official summoned Algerian ambassador in Cairo on Monday to verify security measures taken by Algerian authorities after attacks against Egyptian workers in Algeria. A wave of violence against Egyptian workers swept Algeria on Monday after local dailies published reports alleging that an Algerian football fan has been beaten to death in Cairo following the defeat of his country's soccer team in the World Cup qualifier game. (Egypt-Algeria-Unrest) ANKARA -- Turkey has seen 13 more deaths caused by the A/H1N1 flu, bringing the death toll of the deadly disease to 73 in the country, said an official statement on Monday. The statement issued by Turkey's Health Ministry said that altogether 249 people infected with the flu were under treatment in hospitals and 56 of them were in intensive care units. (Turkey- A/H1N1-Death Toll) SANAA -- Yemeni tribesmen have kidnapped a Japanese engineer who serves the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) northeast of the capital Sanaa, a provincial official said on Monday. The official told Xinhua that Yemeni tribesmen had kidnapped a Japanese engineer in the Arhab district which is located about 60 km northeast of Sanaa. (Yemen- Japan-Kidnap) BEIRUT -- Russia's plan to supply Lebanon with 10 MiG-29 fighter jets will enter its final phase soon, the Beirut-based Al- Markazia news agency reported on Monday. The news agency reported that a Russian military group of experts will be visiting Lebanon in the next few days, on a mission that consists of exploring the capabilities of Lebanese airports to maintain the MiGs. (Lebanon-Russia-MiG 29) 