From Newswire

• Gates says U.S. urban pullout in Iraq going well
• Afghan poll official ambushed, U.N. sees challenges
• Dozens lightly wounded by Spanish car bomb: agency
• Venezuela "will freeze" ties with Colombia: Chavez
• U.S. envoy sees progress with Israel on peace push
• Haitian migrant shipwreck kills 15, dozens missing
• Honduras leaders under pressure as U.S. revokes visas
• Pilots report problem with Air France speed sensors
• Colombian rebels say did not fund Ecuador's Correa
• Jakarta bomb blast hotels to re-open Wednesday