From Newswire

• Saddam ouster right, even without WMDs: Blair
• Gates says Iran to face new sanctions
• U.S. sees Arabs, Kurds in Iraq settling differences
• Philippines says to lift martial law in south
• China moves to trial of prominent dissident
• Libya still jailing dissenters: Human Rights Watch
• Turkey's top court bans pro-Kurdish party
• No real "freeze" on settlement: Israeli minister
• Child abuse crisis to spark Irish Church shake-up
• Drone strike believed to kill senior al Qaeda plotter