Cairo  - Negotiations between Palestinian factions meeting in Cairo produced scant progress as the third day of talks closed, according to Egyptian media reports.

Cairo's official Middle East News Agency quoted Jamal Yussef, a leading member of Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip, as saying an agreement had been reached on "domestic and international security," but he did not specify its substance.

Dhaka  - Bangladesh Thursday asked Malaysian authorities to revise a decision that cancelled visas of some 55,000 Bangladeshi workers in the wake of global recession.

"We expect something positive after the upcoming Malaysian national elections as we have started negotiations," Bangladesh's junior minister for foreign affairs, Hasan Mahmud said.

In intense diplomatic efforts, the Bangladesh government formally requested Kuala Lumpur to take Bangladesh workers, thousands of whom were ready to fly now.

Cairo  - Egypt will not accept any conditions on US aid, the country's minister of international cooperation said in remarks published Thursday, after the US Senate approved cuts in economic assistance to Cairo.

In remarks published in the government-owned al-Gomhuriya newspaper, Egyptian Minister of International Cooperation Fayza Abul- Naga said Cairo rejected any conditions being placed on US assistance to Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country.

Washington - Lieutenant General Karl Eikenberry, a NATO official and former commander of international forces in Afghanistan, was nominated to be the United States' next ambassador to Afghanistan by President Barack Obama on Wednesday.

Eikenberry is currently deputy chairman of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization's military committee. A career military veteran, he served as the commander of the Combined Forces Command in Afghanistan for 18 months before moving to NATO's Brussels headquarters in 2007.

Brasilia  - The Brazilian presidency got stuck in a diplomatic fumble Wednesday when it got wrong the name of Britain's Prince Charles in an official agenda.

As the Prince of Wales started a five-day visit to the South American country, the first version of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's agenda mentioned a meeting with "Charles Philip Arthur Chaves," according to Brazilian news website G1. The complete name of the heir to the British crown is Charles Philip Arthur George Mountbatten-Windsor.

Washington  - The world's largest economies must do more to halt a global economic slide, and more government stimulus will be a top US priority at an international financial summit next month, President Barack Obama said Wednesday.

Ahead of April's Group of 20 (G20) gathering of the world's leading economies, Obama warned against protectionist moves and acknowledged that developing countries were being "hard hit" by the fallout from an economic crisis that largely began in the United States.