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Bhutto's widower set to become Pakistan president (AFP)

Asif Ali Zardari -- the co-chairman of the Pakistan People's Party (PPP). Pakistan lawmakers were Saturday expected to elect slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as president of the frontline state in the United States-led AFP - Pakistan lawmakers were Saturday expected to elect slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto's widower as president of the frontline state in the United States-led "war on terror".


Rice meets Gaddafi on historic Libya visit (Reuters)

Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi (R) meets with U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice (L) in Tripoli September 5, 2008. Rice met Gaddafi -- once reviled as a 'mad dog' by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies. (Stringer/Reuters)Reuters - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi -- once reviled as a "mad dog" by a U.S. president -- on Friday on a historic visit which she said proved that Washington had no permanent enemies.


Australian state votes in poll that could bring uranium mine ban (AFP)

BHP Billiton's Olympic Dam copper and uranium operation at Roxby Downs in South Australia. Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy(AFP/HO)AFP - Voters in Western Australia went to the polls Saturday in a ballot that could see a formal ban slapped on uranium mining in the mineral-rich state that drives the whole nation's economy.


Protesters paralyze Bolivian highways, airport (AP)

A woman shouts slogans supporting Bolivia's President Evo Morales as she attends a ceremony to honor Aymara leader Bartolina Sisa in La Paz, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Bartolina Sisa and her husband Tupac Katari led an indigenous uprising against the Spanish domination in Bolivia which laid siege to the city of La Paz in 1781. Their army maintained the siege for 184 days. Sisa was captured and executed by the Spanish on September 5, 1782. (AP Photo/Dado Galdieri)AP - Protesters stormed a small airport Friday and blocked major highways across eastern Bolivia in a standoff over central government reforms designed to empower Bolivia's indigenous majority.


Rice meets Gadhafi on historic visit to Libya (AP)

Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, right, meets with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, left in Tripoli, Libya, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. Rice begins a four-nation tour of North Africa in Tripoli today, meeting with Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and other top officials in what the State Department is calling a landmark trip that will symbolize the opening of a new era in ties between the United States and the oil-rich country. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)AP - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround after decades of terrorist killings, American retaliation, suspicions and insults with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's peacemaking visit Friday with Moammar Gadhafi, Libya's mercurial strongman.


European freighter detaches from space station (AFP)

Graphic illustration of the ATV spacecraft which is positioning itself for a fiery, suicide descent into Earth's atmosphere(AFP)AFP - A European robot freighter decoupled from the International Space Station (ISS), positioning itself for a fiery, suicide descent into Earth's atmosphere.


Iraq govt reacts sharply to US spying allegations (AP)

Nouri al-Maliki, Iraq's Prime Minister, arrives at a ceremony marking the fifth anniversary of the 2003 assassination of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, a leading opponent of Saddam Hussein, in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Saturday, July 5, 2008 file photo. The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report is true. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban, file)AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.


First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (AP)

A man unloads bottles of water donated by Word Food Program in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies managed to dock Friday, the first significant aid delivery after four days without food or water for thousands of survivors from Tropical Storm Hanna. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)AP - U.N. peacekeeping troops began handing out food and water to famished Haitians on Friday after the first shipload of aid sailed into a crumbling port on the outskirts of this flooded city, where tens of thousands are stranded in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna.


AP IMPACT: Afghans fed up with government, US (AP)

In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)AP - The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath a large, leafy tree in rural eastern Nangarhar province. When Malik Mohammed speaks on their behalf, his voice is soft but his words are harsh. Mohammed makes it clear that the tribal chiefs have lost all faith in both their own government and the foreign soldiers in their country.


Lingering tensions slow Iraqi withdrawal plans (AP)

Supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn items depicting the U.S. flag as they demonstrate against the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear behind the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security.