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Reuters World News Highlights at 1754 GMT, Sep 25

Published: 25 Sep 2009 09:56:06 PST

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PITTSBURGH/VIENNA - U.S. President Barack Obama and the leaders of Britain and France accused Iran on Friday of building a secret nuclear fuel plant and threatened tough new sanctions unless Tehran comes clean about its nuclear program.

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PITTSBURGH - The Group of 20 will become the forum for global economic management, giving rising powers such as China more clout, and roll out tougher rules on bank capital by the end of 2012, a draft communique said on Friday.

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LONDON - The resignation of a senior British general has exposed a widening rift between the military leadership and Prime Minister Gordon Brown over how the war in Afghanistan is being fought.

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MIRANSHAH, Pakistan - A U.S. drone aircraft killed 12 Afghan militants in a missile strike in Pakistan near the house of an Afghan Taliban commander allied to al Qaeda, intelligence officials and residents said on Friday.

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BERLIN - German police said on Friday they had arrested a 25-year-old Turkish man they suspected of posting an al Qaeda Internet video threatening Germany with an attack after Sunday's federal election.

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DUBAI - Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden urged European nations in a new audio tape aired on Friday to withdraw their troops from Afghanistan.

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BAGHDAD - A murky stock deal between Iraqi Kurdish officials and a foreign oil company has shone an embarrassing spotlight on widespread graft that may threaten investment and growth in the prosperous northern region.

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LONDON - European healthcare regulators recommended two swine flu vaccines for approval on Friday, clearing the way for mass vaccination programmes to start imminently.

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JERUSALEM - Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert went on trial in Jerusalem on Friday on corruption charges, confidently predicting he would be acquitted of fraud, breach of trust and failure to report income.

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TEGUCIGALPA - Honduras' ousted President Manuel Zelaya warned on Friday that negotiations to end a three-month political crisis will collapse unless the coup leaders who toppled him agree to give up power.

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YANGON - Myanmar's detained Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will support U.S. plans to engage with the isolated nation but only if opposition groups are involved in any dialogue, her party said.

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ASMARA - Eritrea said on Friday the hunting of al Qaeda suspects in Somalia by U.S. and Ethiopian forces had crippled peace efforts in the Horn of African nation.