AP - The U.N. says Russian soldiers are telling thousands of refugees in Georgia who want to return to their homes that their security can't be guaranteed.

AFP - More than 300,000 people trapped in India's worst floods in 50 years have been rescued but nearly double that number remain stranded without food or water, officials said Saturday.

Reuters - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi met in Libya on Saturday to sign a "friendship pact" under which Italy will pay billions of dollars in investments and compensation for its colonial rule of the North African country.

AP - More than 11,000 Iraqis have been released from American detention centers this year, leaving nearly 20,000 still in custody, the U.S. military said Saturday.

AP - Gustav swelled to a fearsome Category 3 hurricane with winds of 120 mph (195 kph) as it shrieked toward the heartland of Cuba's cigar industry Saturday on a track to hit the U.S. Gulf Coast, three years after Hurricane Katrina.

AP - A bomb blast blamed on separatist Tamil Tigers wounded 45 people in Sri Lanka's capital Saturday, while renewed fighting in the embattled north killed 19 rebels and six soldiers, the military said.

AFP - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's party has rejected new demands by the opposition following meetings with South African mediators to get power-sharing talks back on track, state media said Saturday.

AP - The government offices in Iraq's Diyala province are encased in thick blast walls, a shield against suicide bombings. Nearby buildings are pockmarked from fighting between U.S. troops and Sunni insurgents.

AFP - Australian police have cleared an Indian doctor of involvement in failed bomb attacks in Britain last year after a bungled 14-month probe that is now the subject of a judicial inquiry.