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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO ministers will pledge support for Georgia and reiterate a promise of future membership on Tuesday while criticizing Russian intervention in the country and urging Moscow to respect a peace deal, a spokeswoman said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will keep helping Pakistan fight extremism, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday after President Pervez Musharraf, a close U.S. ally in counter-terrorism efforts, said he was quitting.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Government plans to decriminalize drug use are stirring controversy in Argentina's slums, where residents blame a crack-like drug called paco for fueling crime, violence and desperation.

Daniel Magnowski is a correspondent for Reuters in West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal. Before moving to Africa this year, Daniel covered commodities and financial markets for Reuters in London. In the following story he tells of his experience of covering the aftermath of the military coup in Mauritania this month and his encounter with the new junta leader.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Four years ago state ballot measures were at the center of the presidential election, and were credited with helping George W. Bush win a second term in office.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Sunday he believed a power-sharing deal with the country's ruling party will be reached soon.

Manila (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslim guerillas attacked two towns in the Philippines troubled south on Monday, killing 34 people, burning homes and looting banks before being driven out by the military.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party will continue power-sharing talks with the opposition, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Monday.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - A state government in eastern Indian is encouraging people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Two years ago, the chief of Nepal's former Maoist rebels was on the Himalayan nation's most wanted list with a price of more than $70,000 on his head.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it was ready to help fellow Muslim states launch satellites into orbit after it successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit -- a move that may increase Western suspicions over its atomic ambitions.

SARAJEVO (Reuters) - Bosnia's failure to establish a coherent system of government more than a decade after its ethnic war has had some strange consequences -- among them a dire lack of prison space for Sarajevo's small-time criminals.

(Reuters) - Beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation on Monday in the face of an impending impeachment motion by Pakistan's ruling coalition government.

BEIJING (Reuters) - Rescuers are trying to reach 24 miners trapped after what authorities described as a "gas blast" in a coal mine in northeastern China on Monday, Xinhua news agency said.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation on Monday in the face of an impending impeachment motion by the ruling coalition government.

JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit the Middle East next week in another attempt to achieve progress towards an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal, officials said on Monday.

SRINAGAR, India (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Muslims marched peacefully past the United Nations office in Indian Kashmir on Monday, calling on the international body to intervene over the disputed Himalayan region.

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Faced with the humiliation of impeachment, former army chief Pervez Musharraf quit as Pakistan president on Monday, having lost political, popular and increasingly even U.S. support.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said it had put a dummy satellite into orbit on a home-grown rocket for the first time on Sunday -- a move likely to increase Western concerns about its nuclear ambitions.

CARACAS (Reuters) - Washington-foe Venezuela plans to launch an observation satellite within five years to map its territory, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.