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HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai is considering whether to pull out of the June 27 presidential run-off election, fearing it will be a charade, a spokesman said on Friday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - As many as 10 percent of those affected by the earthquake in southwest China will need long-term mental health care, the World Health Organisation said on Friday, adding the region had a chance to build a better healthcare system.

MONARAI, Afghanistan (Reuters) - NATO and Afghan forces held mopping up operations, hunting Taliban fighters and burying the dead on Friday, after an air and ground offensive routed hundreds of insurgents from a valley near Kandahar city.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali authorities arrested three Tibetan officials and charged them with anti-China activities, leading to protest from a pro-Tibet group based in Washington.

LAHORE, Pakistan (Reuters) - Partners in Pakistan's ruling coalition led by the party of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto failed on Friday to agree on a strategy to remove President Pervez Musharraf.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Hu Jintao answered just two questions in his online debut on an official website on Friday, the first being -- what do you usually do on the Internet?

BANGKOK (Reuters) - Chanting "Get out, get out", thousands of protesters camped outside the office of Thailand's prime minister on Friday after police removed barricades blocking them in their campaign to oust the government.

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has detained three men linked to a plot to extort money from a company in Olympic co-host city Qingdao by posing as terrorists and threatening to detonate a bomb, local media reported on Friday.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Chinese Vice Premier Wang Qishan called on the United States on Thursday to resist protectionism and to understand that the challenges China faces in developing its economy will require time to sort out.

CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian Aboriginal children remain vulnerable to sexual abuse a year after the government sent in police and soldiers to clean up their remote communities, the author of a report into the problem said on Friday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives approved $465 million on Thursday to fund an anti-narcotics package to help battle drug cartels in Mexico and Central America.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The EU faced a new obstacle in its bid to salvage a reform treaty as leaders said on Friday Prague had a problem quickly ratifying it after Ireland's "No" vote.

CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama apologized on Thursday to two Muslim women who were barred from sitting behind the podium where Obama was speaking because they were wearing Islamic headscarves.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama said on Thursday he would reject public financing of his campaign against Republican John McCain, reversing an earlier stance and positioning himself to outspend McCain in the White House race.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday approved enough new money to wage wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for another year, while abandoning attempts to set deadlines opposed by President George W. Bush for withdrawing American combat troops.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States and South Korea on Thursday concluded negotiations over a recent deal to reopen the Asian nation's market to U.S. beef exports, signaling they were close to a breakthrough.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will travel this month to Chengdu, China, the capital of Sichuan province that was struck by a massive earthquake in May, the State Department said on Thursday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday passed compromise legislation embraced by the Bush administration to extend government benefits for the long-term unemployed.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The U.N. Security Council demanded on Thursday that warring governments and factions act to halt violence against women, saying rape was no longer just a by-product of war but a military tactic.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - New estimates of war deaths in 13 nations including Vietnam, Ethiopia and Bangladesh show that previous counts vastly understated the lives lost to war in the past half century, researchers said on Thursday.