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LA PAZ (Reuters) - Bolivian President Evo Morales won a recall vote on Sunday, according to unofficial results reported by local television, but will likely remain deadlocked with opponents of his leftist reforms.

AZEFFOUN, Algeria (Reuters) - It looks like any Mediterranean resort: Young women in bikinis frolic in the surf and old folk doze under parasols in the baking heat.

SADR CITY, Iraq (Reuters) - Late into the night, a crane drops towering slabs of concrete into place, the earth shaking as U.S. and Iraqi forces slowly wall off the slum that was Baghdad's last sanctuary for feared Shi'ite militants.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali police kicked Tibetan protesters and beat them with batons on Sunday before detaining some 230 people marching to a Chinese consular office in Kathmandu, police and witnesses said.

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.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not back down on its nuclear stance despite the threat of tighter sanctions, Iranian media quoted a government spokesman as saying on Sunday.

HANOI (Reuters) - About 80 people have been killed and dozens remain missing in north Vietnam as heavy rains brought by tropical storm Kammuri triggered landslides and floods.

BEIJING (Reuters) - The White House made clear on Sunday it did not expect a deal with North Korea by Monday's initial deadline for presenting a verification plan for its nuclear programmes, but said talks would continue.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck in the Indian Ocean on Sunday, but no tsunami warning was issued, the Indian Meteorological Department said.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran and Algeria are expected to discuss the formation of an OPEC-style gas group during a visit by Algerian president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to Tehran, Iran's ambassador to Algeria said in remarks published on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pressure is mounting on Pakistan's beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf from his own allies to step down before the ruling coalition tries to impeach him this month, officials said on Sunday.

ZEMMOURI, Algeria (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb attack on security forces killed at least six civilians east of Algiers late on Saturday, the second such blast this month, authorities in OPEC member Algeria said on Sunday.

HYDERABAD, India (Reuters) - Heavy monsoon rains brought down homes and swamped parts of southern India, killing at least 40 people over the weekend, officials said on Sunday.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - More than 100 Islamist militants and nine Pakistani soldiers were killed in fierce fighting over the last four days in the tribal region of Bajaur, a military spokesman said on Sunday.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe was locked in long talks with opposition leaders on Sunday after signs they were about to reach a power-sharing deal to end a post-election political crisis.

BEIJING (Reuters) - U.S. President George W. Bush pressed his case for more religious freedom in China on Sunday in frank conversations with the country's Communist leaders and by attending a worship service at a Beijing church.

JAYAPURA, Indonesia (Reuters) - An American pilot has died after his light plane delivering food aid in Indonesia's remote Papua province crashed, an official from the missionary organization said on Sunday.

MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine military attacked Muslim rebels holed up in Catholic farmlands in the south on Sunday, prompting hundreds to flee their homes and raising tensions on the eve of elections in the region.

KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan authorities were checking on Sunday reports more than a dozen civilians were killed by a foreign forces air strike in an area to the northeast of the capital, an official said.

LA PAZ (Reuters) - From the Andes to the Amazon, Bolivians vote on Sunday in a recall referendum that President Evo Morales is expected to win, but the outcome is unlikely to ease a bitter standoff with his rightist rivals.