Washington  - US President Dick Cheney will head to Georgia next month in support of its government following the Russian military assault on the former Soviet republic, the White House said Monday.

Meanwhile, a high-level US delegation left to Tbilisi for a three- day trip to review country's economic and reconstruction needs as the United States has pledged to help the Caucasus nation rebuild. The US delegation is headed by Undersecretary of State Reuben Jeffery.

Warsaw  - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the US anti- missile shield is not only a military installation, but a chance to develop a northern Polish province that is to host the base.

Tusk said residents near the city of Slupsk should feel the shield is also "a chance to develop the region," after he met with local government officials from the area.

Kathmandu, Aug 25: Chinese

Harare - Zimbabwe's new parliament was to be sworn in Monday in the first part of a plan by President Robert Mugabe to try to force opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai into a power-sharing deal on his terms.

The 210 members of the lower House of Assembly are to be sworn in by the clerk of parliament in a colourful ceremony in Harare. Members of the Senate or upper house, will also be sworn in.

Mugabe's move to convene parliament risks derailing talks between his Zanu-PF party and Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on the formation of a government of national unity.

Kathmandu, Aug 25: Nepali Foreign Minister Upendra Yadav has reportedly said that his country would keep an equal distance from both India and China since “the dynamics of diplomatic ties have changed”.

Yadav said that the new Nepali government will keep “equal distance” from its two neighbors, India and China, reported the Xinhua.

The foreign minister, also chairman of Madhesi People's Rights Forum (MPRF), the fourth largest party in the Constituent Assembly (CA), was sworn in on Friday alongside seven other ministers.