FP roundup 9/25

Asia
North Korea expelled U.N. monitors and announced plans to restart its nuclear program.
India and Pakistan pledged to renew stalled negotiations. A Pakistani militant group claimed responsibility for last weekend's hotel bombing in Islamabad and vowed more violence today.
Indian PM Manmohan Singh is making one last push to finalize a civilian nuclear deal with the U.S.
The WHO condemned China for its milk scandal.

Middle East and Africa
After months of dispute, Iraq finally passed a law paving the way for provincial elections. The status of the disputed city of Kirkuk remains unresolved, though.
Iraq's largest humanitarian organization is facing embezzlement charges.
Israeli President Shimon Peres fired back at Iran at the UN, describing it as "at the centre of violence and fanaticism in the world." Mamoud Ahmadinejad met with a fringe group of anti-Zionist Hasidic Jews.
A Rwandan former prosecutor was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the 1994 genocide. A prominent French writer is also on trial in Paris for "inciting racial hatred" in a book about the conflict.
Nigerian police have arrested over 200 suspected Niger Delta militants.

Americas
A Guantanamo Bay military prosecutor stepped down over his office's suppression of evidence.
Hugo Chavez signed an energy cooperation deal with China.
Mexico's drug violence continues to spiral out of control.
Even hardline Cuban exiles are now pushing for the U.S. to lift the embargo to provide hurricaine relief.

Europe
Condoleezza Rice had an awkward meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York. Russia snubbed the U.S. by declining to participate in a G8 meeting on Iraq today.
Airline unions dropped their objections to the takeover of Alitalia airlines.
This week's massacre in Finland may have been linked to an earlier shooting.
The Camorra mafia has "declared war" on the Italian state.