Sudan Leader Off To Russia

Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti accused Israel on Wednesday of an air strike a day earlier on a car on Sudan's Red Sea coast that killed two people.Karti's charge came as a number of Israeli newspapers spoke of the same thing, though there has yet been no comment from the Israeli media."From yesterday, we have indications that the attack was carried out by Israel. We are absolutely sure of this," Karti told a news conference in Khartoum.

Russia has warned that Syria would descend into "bloody chaos" should a proposal from Lakhdar Brahimi, the international envoy, to set up a transitional government fail.

Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, wanted by an international court for suspected war crimes in Darfur, will not attend an Africa-EU summit in Libya which Sudan will boycott, his foreign minister said on Sunday."Mr Bashir will not attend" the two-day summit that starts on Monday, Sudanese Foreign Minister Ali Ahmad Karti said in the Libyan capital."We are therefore pulling out and will not be represented at any level," he added after a meeting of African foreign ministers ahead of the summit.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will use a trip to Moscow this week to discuss cooperation in the investigation of the Boston bombings as well as future intelligence-sharing, according to two State Department officials who briefed reporters today in Washington.

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday after a meeting with Moscow's top diplomat that he hoped Russia's president or prime minister would visit the Jewish state in 2010."I hope that by the end of the year there will be a visit by President Dmitry Medvedev or Prime Minister Vladimir Putin," Lieberman said at a press conference with visiting Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks on Monday with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak on the second day of a visit to boost ties with his country's main trade partner in the region, the state-run MENA news agency reported.The two discussed "international and regional issues of joint interest, the Middle East developments, efforts to revive the stalled Middle East peace process and bilateral ties," MENA said.