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TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgia's National Movement of President Mikheil Saakashvili was leading with 60.92 percent of the vote in the country's parliamentary election, early official results showed on Thursday.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African soldiers joined police in operations around Johannesburg on Thursday to help end attacks on African immigrants that have killed at least 42 people.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned Iran on Wednesday that if it did not make the "right choice" and abandon sensitive nuclear work it faced more punitive action from the international community.

IRVINE, California (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate John McCain will spend time this weekend with three politicians who have been mentioned prominently by Republicans as possible vice presidential running mates.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will come under renewed pressure on Thursday when trade unions hold a nationwide strike against his pension reform plans.

GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Gunmen killed a Guatemalan public prosecutor who was investigating the gruesome murder of a 9-year-old girl, the country's attorney general said on Wednesday.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday threw out a Washington state law barring the federal government from adding radioactive waste to the Hanford nuclear disposal site until existing contamination is cleaned up.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration rolled out pricing details on Wednesday for an urgent student loan market stabilization program mandated earlier this month by Congress, with key lawmakers expressing general support.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert proposed in talks with a U.S. congressional leader that a naval blockade be imposed on Iran to try to curb its nuclear program, an Israeli newspaper reported on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Without its most powerful orator and liberal giant, the U.S. Senate was suddenly quieter and emptier on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President George W. Bush on Wednesday signed a law that prohibits discrimination against anyone whose genetic information shows a predisposition to illnesses such as cancer or heart disease.

BELFAST (Reuters) - Brian Keenan, a former guerrilla leader in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) who fought to end British rule in Northern Ireland, has died, his close ally Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams said on Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Banking Committee is scheduled on Thursday to question President George W. Bush's nominee to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia's prime minister won the backing of the country's main ruling party on Thursday, fending off a challenge to his leadership from the former premier that threatens to deepen political turmoil.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran made an official protest to the United States, via a Swiss intermediary, on Wednesday about what Tehran says is Washington's support for a group blamed for bombing an Iranian mosque, a news agency reported.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democrats in the Senate on Wednesday attempted to link record gasoline prices to cozy ties between President George. W. Bush - a former Texas oil man - and five big energy companies who logged $36 billion in profits in the first quarter of 2008.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The House on Wednesday voted to override President George W. Bush's veto of the $289 billion farm bill that expands public nutrition programs for poor Americans but does not cut subsidies for wealthy farmers as much as Bush demanded.

BOSTON (Reuters) - Sen. Edward Kennedy, an elder statesman of U.S. liberal politics and brother of slain President John Kennedy, was released from hospital on Wednesday after being diagnosed with a deadly brain tumor.

TBILISI (Reuters) - Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili on Thursday claimed victory in a parliamentary election that the opposition says was rigged.