from Newswire

• Ahmadinejad on track for re-election
• U.N. widens sanctions on North Korea; China joins in
• Pakistan's Zardari vows to fight Taliban to the end
• NATO backs U.S. shake-up in Afghan command
• Mediators await Netanyahu speech, hoping for change
• No systematic violence in Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai
• Iraq Sunni leader killed at mosque, fears of fallout
• Ethiopian troops cross deeper into Somalia: residents
• Dissident neurosurgeon allowed to leave Cuba
• U.N. warns of catastrophe as hungry people top one billion