Iranian hardliner calls opposition leader US agent (AP)
SKorea says NKorea fires 7 missiles off east coast (AP)
Michelle Obama bringing glamor to Moscow (AP)
Officials say 16 killed in clashes in NW Pakistan (AP)
Honduras Braces for a Protracted Fight (Time.com) Time.com - Despite a looming deadline, nobody expects a political crisis symptomatic of the brittleness of Central American democracy to resolve any time soon Nine Chechen police killed in Russia's Ingushetia (Reuters) Reuters - Nine Chechen policemen sent to crush an insurgency in the neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia were gunned down Saturday, Interfax reported, intensifying the cycle of violence now unfolding in the region. VP Biden urges Iraqis to make political progress (AP)
Honduras refuses to restore president; snubs OAS (AP)
Sudan police search for kidnapped aid workers (Reuters) Reuters - Sudanese security services were searching Saturday for two kidnapped female aid workers, one Ugandan and one Irish, taken from their compound in Darfur, the women's employer said. You can save this news page by submitting it to your favorite sites:
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AP - Militants exploded a vehicle outside the gates of a U.S. coalition base in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, sparking a two-hour gunbattle that ended when American troops called in airstrikes, officials said. Two U.S. troops were killed.
AP - A top aide to Iran's supreme leader called the country's main opposition figure a U.S. agent and accused him in an editorial Saturday of committing crimes against the nation .
AP - South Korea says North Korea has fired a seventh missile off its eastern coast.
AP - Michelle Obama brings her superstar glamor to Moscow this weekend as she accompanies her husband on his summit with the Russian president.
AP - Clashes between tribesmen and Taliban militants left 16 people dead in Pakistan's northwest on Saturday, officials said, in the latest violence between pro-government tribal militias and insurgents.
AP - Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi leaders Friday to do more to foster national reconciliation and offered U.S. assistance in achieving that, as concerns grow that a lack of political progress is fueling violence in Iraq.
AP - Honduras' refusal to restore ousted President Manuel Zelaya despite an appeal by the top envoy for the Americas has put the impoverished nation on a collision course with the world community that could lead to its isolation.
