Mexican vote protest

Mexican vote protest
MEXICO CITY, Mexico -- A young boy protests outside the Federal Electoral Tribunal during a closed-door session of lawyers. The legal team from Mexico's main left party urged the country's top electoral court to declare Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador president-elect, arguing Saturday that fraud cost him the July 2 election.
Congolese to vote today
KINSHASA, Congo -- Millions of war-weary Congolese choose the nation's first democratically elected leader today amid hopes the historic ballot can end decades of war and despotic rule that have echoed across Africa. The vast impoverished nation, which borders nine other countries in the heart of the world's poorest continent, is at a crossroads between continued conflict and peace, and its new president will blaze a trail for neighboring countries long involved with Congo. Security and development have been top issues in the run-up to the first multiparty elections for the presidency since Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960.
Al-Qaida detainees
KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S.-led coalition forces detained four suspected al-Qaida operatives in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday, while a major operation to crush Taliban fighters in the south moved to a close, officials said. The al-Qaida suspects, accused of planning attacks on coalition and Afghan forces, were nabbed near Sal Kalay, a village in Khost province, along with assault rifles and a briefcase containing "extremist-related documents," a coalition statement said. The coalition did not give the suspects' names, nationalities or indicate their seniority within the terror group.
Associated Press