Geneva - An organization representing 900 Swiss companies has signed an agreement to crack down on commercial child sex tourism, an official with the Swiss Federation of Travel Agencies said Monday.

"We want our members to inform their clients and partners in different countries about the protection of children there," Sandra Gonzales with the SVR, the federation's German initials, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.

The organization also called on tourists to report any illegal activities at their holiday destinations to the Swiss Federal Police, via an online form that was first made available over the summer.

Jerusalem - Israeli caretaker Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met in Jerusalem Monday, with a collapsing Gaza truce high on their agenda.

The two leaders have been meeting regularly since they revived Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations for the first time in seven years at an international summit in Annapolis, Maryland, a year ago.

At the summit, they set out to reach a deal by the year's end, but

meeting that deadline became increasingly unlikely after Olmert resigned in September to fight corruption allegations, paving the way for early elections in Israel in February.

Berlin - German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier is to pay a three-day visit to India starting Wednesday, his spokesman said Monday.

The crisis on the world's financial markets and the future international role played by India and other emerging economies will be the main focus of his talks, the spokesman said.

Beijing - A small cave-in and surface cracks preceded the collapse of a road into a subway tunnel in eastern China, but did not lead to the suspension of construction work, state media said on Monday.

Rescue workers were still removing the steel frame from the tunnel so that they would be able to dig for 14 people still missing since the collapse on Saturday in the city of Hangzhou, China Central Television said.

Stockholm - The Swedish government has revised its economic outlook and does not rule out recession in one scenario, Finance Minister Anders Borg said Monday.

The two main scenarios suggest that growth will either be flat next year or, in the worst case, shrink 1.2 per cent.

"The global financial crisis is the worst since the depression (in the 1930s) and the Swedish financial markets have their worst crisis since the 1990s," Borg told reporters.

According to one of the finance ministry scenarios, the crisis will worsen with falling prices and export demand. In combination with the credit crunch, the Swedish economy will grow just 0.1 per cent in 2009, and 2.0 per cent in 2010.

Moscow - A Russian military court will allow public and media access to the trial of three men charged over the murder investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya, it ruled in a crucial first hearing Monday.

Police officer Sergei Khadzhikurbanov and two Chechen brothers, Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, stand accused of plotting the murder of Politkovskaya, gunned down in front of her central Moscow flat in 2006.

Investigators are still hunting for a third Chechen man, Rustam Makhmudov, suspected of being the pointman in the contract killing.