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AP IMPACT: Afghans fed up with government, US (AP)

In this Aug. 23, 2008 file photo, an Afghan woman shouts anti-U.S. slogans in front of her destroyed home in Azizabad, the village in Shindand district of Herat province, Afghanistan. Disillusionment is widespread in Afghanistan, feeding an insurgency that has killed 195 foreign soldiers so far this year, 105 of them Americans. Afghans are deeply bitter about American and NATO forces because of errant bombs, heavy-handed searches and seizures and a sense that the foreigners do not understand their culture. (AP Photo/Fraidoon Pooyaa, File)AP - The bearded, turbaned men gather beneath a large, leafy tree in rural eastern Nangarhar province. When Malik Mohammed speaks on their behalf, his voice is soft but his words are harsh. Mohammed makes it clear that the tribal chiefs have lost all faith in both their own government and the foreign soldiers in their country.


Rice, Gadhafi meet in house US bombed 22 years ago (AP)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is pictured upon arrival at Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon on September 4, 2008 before heading to Libya. There is such a thing as a black Republican, but they have been all but invisible at the party's national convention which is hardly representative of America's diverse population.(AFP/File/Miguel Riopa)AP - The United States and Libya sealed a historic turnaround in their troubled relations with a meeting between Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.


First aid ship arrives in flooded Haitian city (AP)

Buildings are flooded after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area along the coast in Gonaives, Haiti, Friday, Sept. 5, 2008.   Hanna has killed at least 137 people in Haiti.  (AP Photo/Nicolas Garcia)AP - A ship carrying 33 tons of U.N. relief supplies docked in Gonaives on Friday, the first significant aid delivery to tens of thousands of people who have gone with little food or clean water for four days.


Pakistan's Zardari marked by corruption, tragedy (AP)

Asif Zardari, back, widower of Pakistan's slain opposition leader Benazir Bhutto who is running for Pakistan's presidentship, prays with his foe and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Feb 27, 2008 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The favorite to become Pakistan's next president is a polo-loving aristocrat and political rookie who was catapulted into an unlikely position of power by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto.(AP Photo/B.K.Bangash)AP - The likely next president of unstable, nuclear-armed Pakistan following Saturday's election is a horse-loving aristocrat who has spent more years in prison than in politics — a novice leader lifted to prominence by his marriage to Benazir Bhutto and propelled into power by her murder.


Lingering tensions slow Iraqi withdrawal plans (AP)

Supporters of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr burn items depicting the U.S. flag as they demonstrate against the U.S.-Iraqi security agreement in the Shiite enclave of Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraq on Friday, Sept. 5, 2008. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)AP - Concern over upcoming elections and widening tensions among Iraq's religious and ethnic groups appear behind the U.S. military's recommendation to put the brakes on withdrawing more American troops from Iraq despite improvements in security.


Nokia warns 3Q market share will fall; shares dive (AP)

Nokia's Research Center in Helsinki, pictured in 2007. Nokia, the world's leading mobile phone maker cut its third quarter market share guidance, sending its share price tumbling.(AFP/File/Antti Aimo-Koivisto)AP - Shares in Nokia Corp. tumbled Friday after the leading cell phone maker said its third-quarter global market share will decline from second-quarter levels because of aggressive price cuts by its rivals.


Iraq govt reacts sharply to US spying allegations (AP)

U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney, left, meets with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, right, in Baghdad, Iraq, in this Monday, March 17, 2008 file photo.The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report is true. (AP Photo/Ceerwan Aziz, Pool, File)AP - The Iraqi government reacted sharply Friday to published allegations that the U.S. spied on Iraq's prime minister, warning that future ties with the United States could be in jeopardy if the report were true.


Hanna heading toward US after blowing past Bahamas (AP)

This image provided by NASA from the Terra satellite shows Hurricane Ike off the Lesser Antilles as it approaches the Bahamas Thursday Sept. 4, 2008 at 10:40 a.m. EDT. 'Ike looks like it's a very, very dangerous storm,' said FEMA Administrator David Paulison. FEMA's head of disaster operations, Glenn Cannon, said Ike looks like Hurricane Andrew did in 1992 before it killed 23 people and did $26.5 billion in damage in Florida. (AP Photo/NASA)AP - Tropical Storm Hanna was accelerating early Friday as it made its way toward the United States' southeast coast.


Angola's first vote since 1992 plagued by problems (AP)
AP - Angola stumbled on the road to democracy Friday, voters waiting for hours to take part in the first election in 16 years as ballot shortages and a lack of voting officials played havoc at the polls.

US commander sees a 'slow win' in Afghanistan (AP)

Iraqi children talk to a US soldier in Baghdad in late August 2008. The United States would make only modest cuts in US force levels in Iraq early next year under a plan presented to President George W. Bush that calls for a shift in forces to Afghanistan, US defense officials said Friday.(AFP/File/Ahmad al-Rubaye)AP - U.S.-led forces are achieving a "slow win" in Afghanistan, but the less-than-decisive approach must be accelerated soon, a key American commander there said Friday.


Australia's first female governor general sworn in (AFP)

Lawyer, academic, women's activist and grandmother Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's governor general Friday, the first woman to act as the British queen's representative Down Under.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Vince Bucci)AFP - Lawyer, academic, women's activist and grandmother Quentin Bryce was sworn in as Australia's governor general Friday, the first woman to act as the British queen's representative Down Under.


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