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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said on Wednesday Iran posed a serious threat in the Middle East and vowed to stop it from acquiring a nuclear weapon.

CINCINNATI (Reuters) - The win by Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination has left American women both sad and elated -- that a woman came so close, but ultimately missed making history.

GAZA (Reuters) - Israel suspended fuel deliveries to the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Wednesday after a mortar fired by Palestinian militants struck the territory's only fuel depot, wounding a Palestinian worker.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - Residents in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, braced for further flooding after a high tide of over 2 meters resulted in flooding in parts of the city on Wednesday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The embalmed body of revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin should be moved from Red Square and buried as his family had wished, former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev said on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by small-arms fire near the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.

PRISTINA (Reuters) - U.N. authorities in Kosovo expect instructions within days on how to proceed after June 15, when Albanians hope to receive a raft of new powers under their first state constitution, a U.N. spokesman said on Wednesday.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The mother of a British teenager murdered in the Indian state of Goa fears the case against her daughter's killer is falling apart after a forensic test failed to find evidence of rape, her lawyer said on Wednesday.

BEIJING (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed a man for life for supplying a drug maker a fake ingredient that led to at least 14 deaths, local media said on Wednesday.

TOKYO (Reuters) - The U.S. navy hopes to tap Japan's "manga" comic culture to soothe worries over the deployment of a nuclear-powered warship for the first time to the only country to suffer an atomic bombing.

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.N. Security Council envoys pressed Sudan's government on Wednesday to avert a return to civil war with the south and over the separate conflict in its western Darfur region.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf, threatened by possible impeachment, is reconciled to stepping down before he is hounded out of office, according to a senior adviser to the new government.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - President Robert Mugabe's government is using food as a weapon ahead of Zimbabwe's June 27 presidential run-off election, U.S.-based group Human Rights Watch said on Wednesday.

VIENNA (Reuters) - The United States on Wednesday demanded Syria give free rein to U.N. nuclear investigators after diplomats said Damascus would bar access to some sites Washington believes are linked to a secret atomic reactor.

KABUL (Reuters) - Thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes due to food and water shortages in northern Afghanistan, the government said on Wednesday.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Foreign ambassadors urged Kenya on Wednesday to prevent more violence in forthcoming elections for five parliamentary seats that many fear could be a new flashpoint after this year's post-election crisis.

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Industrial users across Australia's biggest mining region were hunting for alternative fuels on Wednesday after an explosion at an offshore gas plant knocked out more than a third of normal gas supplies.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia may replace fuel price controls with cash handouts for motorcyclists and owners of small cars as part of subsidy reforms expected to be announced later on Wednesday, a newspaper reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain head into their general election race for the White House with vastly different approaches to the thorniest political issues, from Iraq and diplomacy to taxes and health care.

JAKARTA (Reuters) - A 2.2-meter (7-feet) high tidal wave inundated parts of Jakarta overnight as the city government and citizens tried to hold the water back with emergency embankments, a government official said on Wednesday.