AFP - Soldiers raced Monday to blast clear a river dammed by landslides after China's deadly earthquake two weeks ago, amid fears that more than one million people could be at risk from flooding.

AFP - Southern Africa's main regional bloc will send extra election monitors for Zimbabwe's key presidential run-off which may seal Robert Mugabe's political future, Angola's foreign minister said Monday.

AP - The U.N. nuclear watchdog suggests Iran may be withholding information the agency needs to establish whether Tehran tried to make nuclear arms.

AP - European stock markets edged higher Monday and key Asian markets fell amid worries about high oil prices and the U.S. economy on a day when U.S. markets were closed for the Memorial Day holiday.

AP - Military bands and an honor guard salute greeted President Michel Suleiman on Monday as he entered Lebanon's presidential palace to begin the monumental task of uniting a wounded nation and reconciling its rival political factions.

AP - China grappled with backed-up rivers and reservoirs in danger of collapse, along with looming storms that threatened Monday to compound damage from the country's worst earthquake in three decades.

AP - A Russian fighter jet shot down an unmanned Georgian spy plane over the separatist Abkhazia region last month, U.N. observers said Monday in a report likely to bolster U.S.-allied Georgia's claim the Kremlin is undermining its territorial integrity.

AP - Myint Hlaing's family bathes and cooks with water from an irrigation ditch fouled by human waste and a rotting cow carcass.

AP - Rows of body bags were laid out along streets for all to see. Sobbing parents furious about shoddily built schools that collapsed and killed thousands of children were able to speak freely. Military helicopters carried reporters to tour the disaster zone.

AFP - Australia's arts community reacted with anger and amazement Monday to the closure of a photo exhibition of naked children and Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's condemnation of the images as "revolting".

AFP - A NATO soldier and three Afghan security personnel were killed in a string of explosions and ambushes linked to a Taliban-led insurgency, security officials said Monday.

AP - Militants said they destroyed an oil pipeline Monday in Nigeria's petroleum-producing region and killed 11 soldiers in an ensuing gunbattle with security forces.

AP - Manuel "Sureshot" Marulanda, a peasant's son who built Latin America's mightiest guerrilla army but failed in a half century of struggle to trigger a communist revolution in Colombia, is dead. He was believed to be 78.

AP - The U.S. military says a U.S. soldier has been killed in a roadside bombing north of Baghdad.