WORLD
* British multinational energy company BP has confirmed that it has signed production sharing contracts for three deepwater exploration blocks offshore Uruguay.
*Mikhail Margelov, Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy for cooperation with African countries, has met with Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to discuss security cooperation, Margelov said.
*Islamist Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other terror suspects have flown out of Britain on board a plane bound for the United States, the BBC reported on Saturday.
* Israel should join the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in order for a nuclear-free Middle East to take shape, Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Ali Asghar Soltanieh said.
RUSSIA
* A Russian Emergencies Ministry aircraft will on Saturday deliver a regular batch of humanitarian aid to Syria, the ministry said.