Jerusalem - Completing a period of intense coalition negotiations, Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu was set to present his government Tuesday afternoon, seven weeks after Israel's elections.

Netanyahu formally requested the Knesset, Israel's parliament, to hold a special session and swear in the new government.

The session was scheduled to start at 5 pm (1400 GMT).

Kigali - In the western Rwandan town of Gisenye, near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, a small platform sits on the scenic Lake Kivu, barely visible from the shores of the burgeoning resort town.

A long tube runs out of the bottom of the platform, extracting the methane gas that saturates the water of the lake.

The gas is pumped to shore and converted to electricity in a newly constructed facility, which is then shipped to a country that only has six per cent of its inhabitants on its national grid.

Sana'a, Yemen - Yemen's Interior Ministry on Monday issued a list of 154 most wanted al-Qaeda suspects as police forces launched a nationwide manhunt campaign for the fugitive suspects.

The ministry said in a statement that the list, which includes 85 Saudis, was circulated to police stations, checkpoints, airports as well as sea and land outposts.

Security sources said police forces, backed by helicopters, began a fierce manhunt for al-Qaeda fugitives, mainly in eastern and southern desert provinces of the Arab country.

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Islamabad - Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari Monday lifted a more than one-month-long federal rule in eastern province Punjab in a bid to further ease political tensions that threatened the stability of the nuclear-armed country early this month.

The official notification for the undoing of the federal rule, known locally as governor rule, was issued by the government with the approval of President Asif Ali Zardari.

Podgorica - Apart from corruption allegations thrown at Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic's cabinet, the Montenegrin opposition also based its campaign for yesterday's snap poll on the prophecy of an economic meltdown.

The electorate did not buy the message and Djukanovic's bloc annihilated the opposition by winning an absolute majority to extend its administration into a third decade.

"The claims of imminent bankruptcy are utter nonsense," Deputy Premier and Finance Minister Igor Luksic told the German Press Agency dpa in Podgorica on Monday.