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Menacing Hurricane Ike powers toward Cuba and Gulf

HAVANA - Hurricane Ike barrelled toward Cuba as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm on Sunday and was forecast to sweep into the central Gulf of Mexico as a large and powerful storm echoing Hurricane Gustav. Ike's top sustained winds reached 135 miles per hour , making it a savage Category 4 on the five-step Saffir Simpson scale of hurricane intensity, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.

Twin blasts hit Afghan police HQ

KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - Two suicide bombers detonated explosives inside the headquarters of the main police station in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar on Sunday, killing two policemen and wounding 29 people, police said. The blasts occurred hours after a suicide bomber blew himself up in an attack on an Italian convoy in western Herat on Sunday, but there were no casualties.

Venezuela to host Russia navy exercise

CARACAS - Several Russian ships and 1,000 soldiers will take part in joint naval manoeuvres with Venezuela in the Caribbean Sea later this year, exercises likely to increase diplomatic tensions with Washington, a pro-government newspaper reported on Saturday. Quoting Venezuela's naval intelligence director, Salbarore Cammarata, the newspaper Vea said four Russian boats would visit Venezuelan waters from November 10 to 14.

Immigrant death sparks riots in Spanish town

MADRID - Immigrants went on a rampage in a southern Spanish town overnight throwing stones and bottles at police after a Senegalese man was stabbed to death, police and Spanish media said on Sunday. Police would only say that the killing of a man in the town of Roquetas de Mar, had sparked "altercations throughout the night in which immigrants were involved".

Europe wants to work with U.S. on Georgia

CERNOBBIO, Italy - The European Union wants to work closely with the United States in resolving the Georgian crisis, Italy's foreign minister said after meeting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday. The United States and Europe have demanded that Russia pull forces out of Georgia as set out in a French-brokered peace agreement, but Moscow has not yet fully complied.

Zardari urged to change focus

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's new president, Asif Ali Zardari, must dispel the perception he is an artful politician and urgently address a deteriorating economy and worsening militant violence, newspapers said on Sunday. Zardari, the widower of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, swept a presidential election by legislators on Saturday, winning 481 of 702 electoral college votes to cement his hold on power in nuclear-armed Pakistan.

Angola ruling party on course for big election win

LUANDA - Angola's ruling MPLA headed on Sunday for a landslide victory in a parliamentary election which opposition parties have branded illegitimate, preliminary results showed. The MPLA, which has ruled the oil-rich African nation since independence from Portugal in 1975, has taken almost 82 percent of the vote at the national level, the electoral commission announced.

Kuwait to discuss war payment in historic Iraq visit

BAGHDAD - Kuwait's prime minister will travel to Baghdad this week in the Gulf state's first high-level visit to Iraq since Saddam Hussein invaded his tiny neighbour in 1990, an Iraqi government official said on Sunday. Kuwait Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser al-Mohammad al-Sabah will meet his Iraqi counterpart, Nuri al-Maliki, during the visit, the official told Reuters on condition of anonymity.

Australia conservatives buoyed by state election

CANBERRA - Australia looked set to expand uranium mining on Sunday with conservatives poised to win elections in resource powerhouse Western Australia state and demolish the coast-to-coast grip of the centre-left. State Labor Premier Alan Carpenter was bravely tipping a hung parliament with four of the 59 seats still in doubt after Saturday's election, but analysts said the two conservative opposition parties would likely form a coalition government in coming days.

Lebanese hold reconciliation talks in volatile city

TRIPOLI, Lebanon - Lebanese Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri held talks with an Alawite community leader in a volatile northern city overnight, paving the way for agreement to end four months of sectarian tensions, politicians said on Sunday. Hariri, the leader of the country's anti-Syrian majority coalition, met pro-Syrian Ali Eid at the house of north Lebanon Mufti Sheikh Malek Sha'ar to prepare the ground for a reconciliation meeting between Tripoli's various leaders.

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