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Zimbabwe's new prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, has been involved in a car accident, his party said Friday.

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is to strike a decidedly anti-protectionist note in an address to Congress, telling lawmakers that the "major challenges we all face are global."

Israel rules out a truce in Gaza unless an Israeli soldier held by Palestinian militants is freed, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert says.

More on EuropeItaly's Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is pushing a law through parliament to force doctors to resume feeding a comatose woman in a right-to-die case that has plunged the country into a constitutional crisis.

Berlusconi says he is in a race against time to save Eluana Englaro, who has been in a coma for 17 years and has not been fed since Friday in line with a high court ruling that she should be allowed to die.

Russia appreciates overtures being made by the United States to improve relations, but sees no need to immediately respond in kind, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said Sunday.

Prime Minister Nouri Maliki's party scored a sweeping victory over rival Shiite Muslim groups in provincial elections as voters rewarded him for security gains and rejected other Shiite parties' overt religious leanings, according to results released today.

Crisis-hit Iceland announces a new government headed by the world's first openly gay leader, Johanna Sigurdardottir.

The prime minister is credited with a drop in violence in once-lawless parts of Iraq.

A young Sunni man strolling along the Tigris River hesitated when asked whom he had voted for in provincial elections today.

Chinese Prime Minister Wen Jiabao said the country's 8% economic growth target for this year is "extremely difficult" but still attainable.