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VIENNA, Austria - Countries that supply nuclear material and technology overcame fierce obstacles Saturday and approved a landmark U.S. plan to engage in atomic trade with India - a deal that reverses more than three decades of American policy.

MBABANE, Swaziland - The Swazi king entered a stadium in an open-topped BMW to cheers and flag-waving Saturday, marking his 40th birthday and his country's 40th independence anniversary.

LONDON - Help Wanted: Plumber needed to service Britain's Antarctic stations. Experience with central heating would be "a significant advantage."

DAMASCUS, Syria - A Hamas official has confirmed that the Damascus-based leader of the militant Palestinian group has promised to deliver to captured Israeli soldier Gilad Schalit a letter from his father.

MOSCOW - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says the war in the Georgian region of South Ossetia show Russia is a "nation to be reckoned with."

CAIRO, Egypt - A security official says at least 18 people were killed and 22 injured when a massive rockslide buried an Egyptian shanty town south of the capital Cairo.

PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Police say at least 12 people are dead after a suicide car bomber struck a security checkpoint in Pakistan's volatile northwest.

BAGHDAD - An official in former Iraqi deputy prime minister Ahmad Chalabi's office says six people were killed in a suicide car bomb attack on Chalabi's convoy in western Baghdad.

RALEIGH, N.C. - Tropical storm Hanna blew hard and dumped rain in eastern North Carolina and Virginia on Saturday, but caused little damage beyond isolated flooding and power outages as it quickly headed north toward New England.

GONAIVES, Haiti - United Nations peacekeepers and aid groups struggled to feed thousands left hungry by tropical storm Hanna, but had yet to reach thousands even as powerful hurricane Ike approached Saturday with the likelihood of more rain for this flooded city.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The widower of slain former leader Benazir Bhutto will succeed Pervez Musharraf as president of Pakistan following a landslide election victory Saturday.

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Officials say a suicide bomb attack by a fake beggar inside a regional prosecutor's office and a shoot-out between police and Taliban militants killed 15 people in Afghanistan today.

SAN FRANCISCO - A minor earthquake rattled the San Francisco Bay area Friday night.

BEIJING - The top U.S. nuclear envoy met with his Chinese counterpart Saturday as part of the latest round of talks aimed at breaking a deadlock over verification of North Korea's nuclear programs.

FARGO, N.D. - A flight attendant charged with setting fire to an airplane bathroom during a flight to Regina failed to show for a federal court appearance Friday.

WHEATON, Ill. - Police say a man who wrested a gun from a police officer and took a dozen hostages in a bank in suburban Chicago has died after shooting himself in the head.

POTI, Georgia - The flagship of the U.S. navy's Mediterranean fleet anchored Friday outside this key Georgian port, defiantly delivering humanitarian aid to the war-ravaged U.S. ally in a slap at Moscow.

GONAIVES, Haiti - A ship carrying 30 tonnes of UN relief supplies docked in Gonaives on Friday, the first significant aid delivery to tens of thousands of people who have gone with little food or clean water for four days.

MANAGUA, Nicaragua - Nicaragua has became the first country other than Russia to formally recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, giving Moscow a victory in its battle with Georgia over the two breakaway provinces.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the United States spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future U.S. ties could be in jeopardy if the report were true.

CHICAGO - Rev. Jesse Jackson has been released from a Chicago hospital, two days after he was admitted for severe stomach pains.

DURYEA, Pa. - Barack Obama says John McCain's speech on Thursday night capped an out-of-touch Republican convention that focused on McCain's biography instead of the struggles facing middle class American voters.

NEW YORK - A New York judge has dismissed charges against a bicyclist who was seen being body checked and knocked to the pavement by a police officer in a widely viewed YouTube video.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - The likely next president of unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan following Saturday's election is a horse-loving aristocrat who has spent more years in prison than in politics, a novice leader lifted to prominence by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her murder.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The Alaskan legislature will work to complete its ethics investigation into Gov. Sarah Palin's firing of her public safety commissioner earlier than expected, weeks before the national election.

CEDARBURG, Wis. - John McCain and running mate Sarah Palin have received a rousing reception in their first joint appearance in a politically vital state after the Republican convention.

AVIGNON, France - The European Union called for an international probe Friday to find out which country should shoulder responsibility for starting the armed conflict between Georgia and Russia.

CAIRO, Egypt - Al-Qaida's top commander in Afghanistan warned of more attacks against the West in a video posted on the Internet.