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FILE - In this  Friday, Aug. 28, 2009 file photo, Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zadari, left, and his daughter Asifa Bhutto Zadari, right, pose for the photographers in London, (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, file)

Pressures on Pakistan's president mount

36 minutes ago

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan's unpopular president is coming under increasing pressure from the powerful army and political opponents to resign or relinquish most of his powers, fueling political turmoil just as the West wants the country to focus on the threat posed by al-Qaida and the Taliban.

  • FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2009 file photo pedestrians walk in Zurich, Switzerland, on Monday, Oct. 26, 2009 below posters of a conservative initiative promoting a 'Yes' to ban the erection of minarets in Switzerland. A voting on the initiative is held in Switzerland on Nov. 29, 2009. An attempt to ban the construction of minarets in Switzerland has set off an emotional debate on Islam in the Alpine nation, stirring fears of boycotts from Muslim countries and of violent reactions.  (AP Photo/Keystone, Steffen Schmidt, File)
    Swiss vote on anti-Islam move to ban new minarets 49 minutes ago

    GENEVA - Swiss voters are deciding in a referendum Sunday whether to accept a ban on the construction of minarets, which right-wing parties regard as symbols of militant Islam.

  • A woman walks near pictures of presidential candidate Porfirio Lobo that read in English 'Pepe is change now!' in Tegucigalpa, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009.  With President Manuel Zelaya, who was ousted in a military coup last June, still holed up in the Brazilian embassy, voters will choose a new president Sunday from the political establishment that has dominated Honduras for decades. (AP Photo/Esteban Felix)
    Honduras hopes to move past coup with election 1 hour, 42 minutes ago

    TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras - Hondurans choose a new president Sunday whose first challenge will be defending his legitimacy to the world and his people, and ending a debilitating, five-month-long crisis caused by Central America's first coup in more than 20 years.

  • FILE - In this April 1998 file photo, exiled al Qaida leader Osama bin Laden is seen  in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.  (AP Photo, file)
    Senate report: Bin Laden was 'within our grasp' Sat Nov 28, 11:33 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - Osama bin Laden was unquestionably within reach of U.S. troops in the mountains of Tora Bora when American military leaders made the crucial and costly decision not to pursue the terrorist leader with massive force, a Senate report says.

  • Leading Uruguayan presidential candidate Jose Mujica, of the ruling party Frente Amplio, talks to reporters during a press conference in Montevideo, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. Uruguayans will choose their next leader in a Nov. 29 runoff between Jose Mujica and Luis Alberto Lacalle of the National Party. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia)
    Ex-rebel likely to be Uruguay presidential winner 33 minutes ago

    MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay - A plain-talking former leftist guerrilla is heavily favored to win Uruguay's presidential run-off election Sunday and keep the country's popular center-left coalition in power for another five years.

  • UN Secretary-General Ban Ki moon, left, and Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen, right, look on during a press conference on climate change at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting (CHOGM) in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad, Saturday Nov. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Martin Cleaver)
    Leaders say momentum building on climate change 1 hour, 23 minutes ago

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Leaders of the Commonwealth countries called Saturday for a legally binding international agreement on climate change and a global fund with billions of dollars to help poor countries meet its mandates.

  • This Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009 photo released by the United Nations shows UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon, right, meeting with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in the International Financial Center in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)
    Afghanistan to be given timetable for progress 1 hour, 24 minutes ago

    PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad - Countries backing Afghanistan's government are going to demand that it meet specific security benchmarks, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said Saturday, outlining a plan to let foreign troops gradually hand control to local forces.

  • FILE - In this April 14, 2009 file photo John Demjanjuk, second from right, is taken from his home in Seven Hills, Ohio by immigration agents. The 89-year-old goes on trial Monday in Munich on 27,900 counts of accessory to murder following 30 years of legal efforts against Demjanjuk on three continents. The trial breaks new legal ground in Germany, which is pressing forward vigorously with attempts to bring to justice World War II perpetrators while they remain alive. (AP Photo/Mark Duncan, File)
    German trial is new twist in Demjanjuk saga 2 hours, 43 minutes ago

    BERLIN - John Demjanjuk once was the focus of the world's attention for the bloodcurdling crimes he stood accused of. Today, he's attracting notice for being the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for Nazi crimes in World War II.

  • A Russian police officer guards a damaged coach at the site of a train derailment near the town of Uglovka, some 400 km (250 miles) north-east of Moscow, Russia, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. An express train carrying hundreds of passengers from Moscow to St. Petersburg derailed, killing dozens of people and injuring scores of others in what may have been an act of sabotage, Russian officials said. (AP Photo/Ivan Sekretarev)
    Russia: Bomb caused train crash that killed 26 Sat Nov 28, 9:22 PM ET

    UGLOVKA, Russia - A powerful homemade bomb sent a high-speed Moscow-to-St. Petersburg train careening off its tracks, Russian officials said Saturday, killing at least 26 people in what officials consider an act of terrorism.

  • Iran's Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, Ali Asghar Soltanieh briefs the media during the IAEA's 35-nation board meeting at Vienna's International Center, in Vienna, on Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Hans Punz)
    Iranian lawmaker: Iran could leave nuclear treaty 2 hours, 15 minutes ago

    TEHRAN, Iran - A conservative Iranian legislator warned Saturday that his country may pull out of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty after a U.N. resolution censuring Tehran — a move that could seriously undermine world attempts to prevent Iran from developing atomic weapons.

  • A man passes the Gate building, left, of Dubai International Financial Center, DIFC, and a billboard of Sheik Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE prime minister and ruler of Dubai which reads ''Long Live Emirates Unity'' in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. European stock markets rebounded Friday after Wall Street didn't fall as much as feared on the news that Dubai is having trouble handling its debt. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili)
    Dubai looks to oil-rich neighbor for possible aid Sat Nov 28, 9:17 PM ET

    DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - As world markets absorbed the shock of Dubai's debt crisis, the ruler of the once-booming city-state left town for an important meeting in a desert palace. His hosts: the leaders of neighboring Abu Dhabi whose balance sheets are flush with oil revenue.

  • In this photo taken on Oct. 12, 2009, children who are HIV positive orphans, or live with their HIV positive mothers at the Mai Tam Center in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam rest on the floor of the center. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)
    America wages new war in Vietnam - on AIDS 2 hours, 39 minutes ago

    TINH BIEN, Vietnam - When her husband fell ill with AIDS, doctors at the hospital turned him away, fearing they would catch the virus.

  • US man wanted for ecoterror sentenced in China 2 hours, 57 minutes ago

    BEIJING - An American man wanted for ecoterrorism attacks in the western United States has been sentenced to three years in a Chinese prison for making illegal drugs.

  • Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, left, and Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez attend a signing of agreements at Miraflores presidential palace in Caracas, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009.  Behind is a painting of Venezuela's independence hero Simon Bolivar.  (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
    Venezuela turns to cloud-seeding to battle drought 2 hours, 24 minutes ago

    CARACAS, Venezuela - Hugo Chavez says he is starting to "bombard" clouds now that Cuba has provided Venezuela with cloud-seeding help in an effort to produce rain and alleviate the effects of a severe drought.

  • Security officials stand guard at the crash site of a cargo plane at Pudong International Airport in Shanghai, China, Saturday Nov. 28, 2009. A Zimbabwe cargo plane crashed shortly after taking off Saturday from Shanghai's main international airport, killing three crew members, a government official said. (AP Photo) CHINA OUT
    3 Americans die in cargo plane crash in China Sat Nov 28, 1:21 PM ET

    SHANGHAI - A Zimbabwe-registered cargo plane crashed in flames during takeoff from Shanghai's main airport Saturday, killing three American crew members and injuring four others on board.

  • The triple-deck ferry, M.V. Coco, floats after it tipped and its rear portion sank in the Tetulia River late Friday near the coastal town of Bhola, 64 miles (104 kilometers) south of Dhaka, Bangladesh, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The ferry packed with people going home for an Islamic festival capsized as they disembarked at a terminal in southern Bangladesh, authorities said Saturday. (AP Photo Firoz Ahmed)
    Death toll in Bangladesh ferry capsize rises to 40 Sat Nov 28, 11:39 PM ET

    DHAKA, Bangladesh - Rescuers searched inside the submerged cabins of a triple-deck ferry Sunday for scores of people believed to be missing after it capsized near a dock in southern Bangladesh, killing at least 40, authorities said.

  • Several hundred demonstrators carrying banners participate in a protest against the Seventh WTO Ministerial Conference, in the streets of Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday, Nov. 28, 2009. The  7th Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organisation, WTO, is held in Geneva from Nov. 30 to Dec. 2, 2009. (AP Photo/Keystone, Martial Trezzini)
    Geneva: Police use tear gas on WTO protest Sat Nov 28, 7:53 PM ET

    GENEVA - Police fired tear gas and rubber bullets Saturday to separate violent demonstrators from a protest of a meeting of top world trade officials, but the hooded "black bloc" activists were able to cause damage before 14 were arrested, spokesmen said.

  • In this Thursday Nov. 19, 2009, photo Sgt. Michael McCann from Enterprise. Ala., of the 118th Airborne MP Company, a veteran of both Iraq and Afghanistan wars, watches as a driver is stopped at a checkpoint near the town of Balisal Afghan, Logar province, Afghanistan. Soldiers and officers involved in combat operations all cite the more punishing geography and climate, those focused on development the bare-bones infrastructure, and intelligence specialists the even greater difficulties in identifying the insurgents as among the many sharp contrasts between Afghanistan and Iraq. (AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills)
    US soldiers: Afghan war more challenging than Iraq Sat Nov 28, 10:05 PM ET

    FORWARD OPERATING BASE SHANK, Afghanistan - Veterans of Iraq recall rolling to war along asphalted highways, sweltering in flat scrublands and chatting with city-wise university graduates connected to the wider world.

  • Canada close to nuclear deal with India Sat Nov 28, 6:23 PM ET

    TORONTO - Canada has concluded negotiations on a nuclear cooperation agreement with India to sell nuclear technology and materials to the energy-starved South Asian nation, Canada's prime minister said Saturday.

  • In this Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 photo, Mary Owido sits with her children Steven, left, Stella, and Brayan, at their home in western Kenyan town of Ahero. The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismembered set. Mary Owido, who lacks pigment that gives color to skin, eyes and hair, says she is only comfortable when at work or at home with her husband and children. (AP Photo/Abisalom Omolo)
    10,000 E. African albinos in hiding after killings Sat Nov 28, 5:24 PM ET

    NAIROBI, Kenya - The mistaken belief that albino body parts have magical powers has driven thousands of Africa's albinos into hiding, fearful of losing their lives and limbs to unscrupulous dealers who can make up to $75,000 selling a complete dismembered set.