CAIRO, Sept 8 - Former Libyan leader Muammer Gaddafi, in a phone call a Syrian television station said was made from inside Libya, vowed on Thursday to defeat rebels who control most of the country.

Police in Indian-administered Kashmir have detained the owner of a cyber cafe in connection with Wednesdays bomb attack in the Indian capital, Delhi.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attends a meeting with a 40-member delegation of Palestinian doctors in the West Bank city of Ramallah September 6, 2011, before they leave on an aid mission to Libya.

1 of 16. People place candles in memory of victims of a plane crash during a service in cathedral in Yaroslavl, September 8, 2011.

BEIRUT, Lebanon - Syrian security forces mounted violent raids on neighborhoods in Homs, the restive central Syrian city, on Wednesday, hunting for a group of soldiers who defected to the opposition early in the day, activists said.

Defense Minister Ehud Barak believes Ankara-Jerusalem ties will be mended, describing dispute over flotilla raid as spilled milk.