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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - Mahmoud Darwish, whose poetry his fellow Palestinians embraced as the voice of their suffering, died on Saturday after heart surgery in Texas.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - His dark eyes glinting from behind a black woolen ski mask to hide his identity, 22-year-old shoeshiner Abel Alvarez is praying Bolivian President Evo Morales wins a recall vote.

BISSAU (Reuters) - Guinea-Bissau's president swore in a new government on Saturday, a day after the armed forces said military officers had tried to mount a coup to end a political crisis in the West African country.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - An old political ally of President Pervez Musharraf said on Saturday Pakistan's embattled former army chief will not use his powers to dissolve the National Assembly to pre-empt moves to impeach him.

BEIJING (Reuters) - President George W. Bush temporarily switched roles Saturday from commander-in-chief to cheerleader-in-chief at the Summer Olympics, stopping by to offer support for the American volleyball and softball teams.

BEIJING (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Saturday took another swipe at China on human rights and religious freedoms, a day before he holds talks with its leaders.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama listens to hip-hop, knows many of the genre's moguls, such as Jay-Z, Russell Simmons and rapper Ludacris, admires their business acumen and has been endorsed by them.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers backed by international air support killed more than 20 Taliban insurgents in the east and west of the country on Friday, a provincial police chief and the U.S. military said on Saturday.

BOSASSO, Somalia (Reuters) - The president of northern Somalia's breakaway Puntland region apologized on Saturday to two German tourists who were freed following two months being held hostage by pirates.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Workers in Bangladesh's export-oriented knitwear manufacturing factories will get a pay rise of about 20 percent from next month due to increases in the cost of essentials, a business leader said on Saturday.

DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - The African Union will suspend Mauritania until democracy is restored in the West African nation where soldiers overthrew the president this week, AU chair Tanzania said on Saturday.

LUSAKA (Reuters) - Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, who suffered a second stroke in June, is heavily sedated and is expected to remain in a French military hospital for a long time, Health Minister Brian Chituwo said.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese man killed a relative of a U.S. men's volleyball coach and injured another family member in a stabbing at a popular tourist spot in Beijing on Saturday.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe could sign a power-sharing deal on Sunday that names opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as prime minister, a senior ruling party official said on Saturday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan marked the 63rd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki with a solemn ceremony on Saturday and a call for world powers to abandon their nuclear weapons.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States told Russia on Friday to withdraw its forces from U.S. ally Georgia and stop its air attacks on the tiny Caucasus state following fighting in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.

HONOLULU (Reuters) - It's not a battleground state and it's unlikely to tip the U.S. election in November, but White House hopeful Barack Obama came to Hawaii on Friday -- minus, largely, his presidential campaign.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards admitted on Friday that he had an extramarital affair in 2006 with a woman who produced videos for his campaign, but said he was not the father of her infant daughter.

TIRDZNISI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russia accused Georgia on Saturday of seeking bloody adventures by trying to retake its breakaway region of South Ossetia and defended its own military campaign to stop it.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States told Russia on Friday to withdraw its forces from U.S. ally Georgia and stop its air attacks on the tiny Caucasus state following fighting in the breakaway region of South Ossetia.