Hamas lawmakers: Abbas term ends in January
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) -- Hamas will cease to recognize Mahmoud Abbas as Palestinian president after Jan. 8 and replace him with one of its own leaders, according to a resolution approved by the Islamic movement's legislators Monday....

Europe governments go their own way on crisis
LONDON (AP) -- Individual European governments issued a cascade of deposit guarantees to shore up their banks but fell short of any coordinated action Monday to deal with the crisis sweeping financial markets, even as stock markets crashed and the euro sank to its lowest level for over a year....

Gates: Afghan militants key to country's future
ABOARD A MILITARY AIRCRAFT (AP) -- Defense Secretary Robert Gates on Monday endorsed efforts to reach out to members of the Taliban or other militants in Afghanistan who may be considered reconcilable, much like what has happened in Iraq....

Iraqi women fear going public as candidates
BAGHDAD (AP) -- The 38-year-old teacher wanted to participate in Iraq's first provincial elections in four years - until she realized that a new law would require the ballot to list her name, not just her party....

Taliban, Afghan officials meet in Saudi Arabia
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) -- A former Taliban ambassador said Monday that the hard-line militants sat with Afghan officials and Saudi King Abdullah over an important religious meal in Saudi Arabia late last month as the insurgency raged back home....

Nobels awarded for AIDS, cancer virus research
Two French scientists who discovered the AIDS virus and a German who defied convention in showing a viral cause for cervical cancer shared the Nobel Prize in medicine Monday for breakthroughs that have led to lifesaving drugs and a vaccine....

Major gunrunning and graft trial opens in Paris
PARIS (AP) -- The son of a former French president, an Israeli-Russian billionaire and a tycoon with ties to Arizona's jet set were among the headliners Monday as 42 defendants went on trial in Paris, accused in a worldwide web of trafficked arms to Angola, money laundering and kickbacks....

Pakistan to deport all Afghans from tribal region
KHAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistan ordered the deportation of about 50,000 Afghan refugees in an insurgency-wracked tribal region amid a major military offensive against al-Qaida and Taliban fighters....

Lebanon, US set up joint military commission
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) -- The United States and Lebanon on Monday set up a joint military commission to bolster military cooperation - a move that follows the first visit by the newly elected Lebanese president to Washington....

Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) -- A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday....