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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Front-runner Barack Obama turned to wrapping up the Democratic presidential nomination after a party committee dealt rival Hillary Clinton a blow by seating the disputed Michigan and Florida convention delegations at half-strength.

ABERDEEN, South Dakota (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama said on Saturday he quit his Chicago church in the aftermath of inflammatory sermons that could become a lightning rod in the November election.

CAIRO (Reuters) - One Egyptian Muslim was killed and four Christians were wounded and on Saturday in a clash over disputed land near a Christian monastery in central Egypt, security sources said.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan troops killed a Colombian "subversive" in a border gun battle, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said on Saturday, an incident that could fuel new tensions between the two countries.

SKOPJE (Reuters) - Macedonians vote on Sunday in a parliamentary election seen as a test of the Balkan country's political maturity after campaign violence raised fears its slow march toward European Union membership could be further delayed.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's state-owned television said on Saturday two ruling ZANU-PF party members had been shot dead by suspected opposition supporters in a rural district that has been gripped by political violence.

NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A former Pakistani minister was denied entry to India because he arrived at the New Delhi airport without proper papers, not as reports said because he was mistaken for a criminal, the government said on Saturday.

DUBAI (Reuters) - An al Qaeda-linked group claimed responsibility on Saturday for a mortar attack on a refinery in Yemen, which officials said did not cause any damage, according to an Internet statement.

PARIS (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he approved of a plan to give Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia autonomy but not full independence.

GAZA (Reuters) - Human Rights Watch has urged the Hamas government in the Gaza Strip to investigate the abduction and alleged torture of three Palestinians by an Islamist militant group that accused them of spying for Israel.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A wave of attacks on foreigners in South Africa has killed 62 people since the violence broke out three weeks ago, police said on Saturday.

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Nineteen of 25 people killed by flash floods in Ethiopia's eastern town of Jijiga this week were children, a regional official said on Saturday.

ISMAILIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian police seized a cache of weapons including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles in the Sinai desert near the Gaza border on Saturday, security sources said.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenyan police fired teargas on Saturday to disperse hundreds of demonstrators protesting against high food prices in the east African country.

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean students, parents with toddlers in tow, and union members took to the streets on Saturday in a massive protest against a government decision to resume imports of U.S. beef that they see as dangerous.

RIGA (Reuters) - About 400 gay men and women and their supporters held a parade in the Latvian capital on Saturday, accompanied by a strong police presence and chants and insults from anti-gay activists.

PARIS (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said he approved of a plan to give Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia autonomy but not full independence, a sign Moscow will not support a break-up of the ex-Soviet state.

DHAKA (Reuters) - Nearly 50 grassroot leaders were detained in Bangladesh late on Friday, police said, after the country's key political parties rejected an offer of talks with the army-backed interim government on elections scheduled later this year.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will not give up its right to enrich uranium, a senior Iranian official said on Saturday, days before major powers submit an upgraded package of incentives to try to coax Tehran into halting the work.

PARIS (Reuters) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin says the United States should explain its refusal to grant a visa to Russia's richest man, metals magnate Oleg Deripaska, or simply give him one.