AFP - Two supporters of Zimbabwe's ruling party have been shot dead in the country's northeast, state radio reported Saturday, amid mounting violence ahead of a presidential run-off next month.

AP - Investigators were probing a commercial jetliner crash that killed five people and injured 65 in Honduras, as authorities blocked additional flights from landing at the capital's notoriously dangerous airport on Saturday.

AP - Lebanese troops shot and killed a suicide bomber near Lebanon's largest Palestinian refugee camp Saturday, a senior military official said.

AFP - Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Saturday his government is planning new measures to stimulate economic growth and make Spanish business more competitive.

AP - Matucana's mayor is a worried man. The Shining Path rebels who terrorized Peru decades ago are back, moving across the jungle-draped slopes near his remote village and recruiting young fighters to their born-again insurgency.

AP - Chinese authorities had evacuated nearly 200,000 people by early Saturday and warned more than 1 million others to be ready to leave quickly as a lake formed by a devastating earthquake threatened to breach its dam.

AP - The first storm of the 2008 Atlantic Hurricane Season has formed near the coast of Belize.

AP - Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include — or at least acknowledge — women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the gender conflicts lurking beneath one of the strictest strains of Islam.

AFP - Japan urged China on Saturday to be more transparent about its military capabilities and step up dialogue with its neighbours to enhance regional security.

AFP - A senior Zimbabwean army official has publicly urged soldiers to vote for President Robert Mugabe in next month's presidential election run-off, a state daily reported Saturday.

AP - A jetliner overshot a runway and raced onto a busy street in the Honduran capital on Friday, killing the pilot, two passengers and a motorist on the ground. At least 65 people were injured.

AFP - French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner arrived in Iraq on a surprise visit on Saturday from Jordan, a diplomatic source in Baghdad and the government in Paris said.

AP - Plans for provincial elections in Iraq by the fall have already set Sunni Arabs against each other as factions prepare to compete for control of the local governments that will wield considerable power over security and finances.