AFP - Police and protesters clashed at an anti-US beef rally here Sunday as Seoul's announcement on extra health safeguards failed to immediately calm South Koreans' fears over mad cow disease.

AP - Militants from Zimbabwe's ruling party have occupied the site of the opposition party's main pre-election rally.

AP - Mexico City's mayor expressed outrage Saturday that youths as young as 13 were among the dozen people killed in a nightclub stampede and said the officials involved in the police raid that sparked the crush had been suspended.

AP - Israel was set to increase the number of trucks bringing badly needed supplies into the Gaza Strip on Sunday as a truce with Hamas militants entered its fourth day, a military spokesman said.

AFP - A homeless Uganda-born man was on Saturday charged with murdering a Swedish woman whose body was found next to a road in Cambridgeshire, police said.

AP - The decisive battle of the Iraq war is shaping up — not in the streets of Baghdad but in the halls of government where the future of America's role across the region is on the line.

AP - NATO forces returned fire across the Afghan border at attackers in Pakistan, officials said Sunday, an incident that could stir tension between Washington and Islamabad over the response to militants in the lawless border region.

AP - North Korea has invited foreign television stations to broadcast its planned destruction of a key facility at the Yongbyon nuclear complex, South Korea's chief nuclear negotiator said Sunday.

AP - U.N. nuclear sleuths probing allegations that Syria is hiding secret atomic activities expressed hope Sunday that a trip to Damascus will be the start of a thorough investigation into the accusations.

AP - A rescue ship battling huge waves and strong winds on Sunday reached a passenger ferry that capsized in Typhoon Fengshen, but found none of the more than 700 people who were on board. The storm has submerged entire communities in the Philippines and left at least 80 people dead.

AFP - One man was killed after small bombs were hurled at people protesting the controversial construction of South Korean steel giant POSCO's plant in eastern India, officials said Saturday.

AP - Chevron Corp. said Saturday that a breached Nigerian pipeline has prompted the company to shut down its onshore oil production.

AP - Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr accused the government Saturday of targeting their political movement as security forces arrested 20 policemen linked to the anti-American cleric.

AFP - Teenage quick Tim Southee's career-best haul paved the way for up an unlikely 22-run win for New Zealand in the third one-day international here Saturday as they levelled their series with England at 1-1.