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CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) - Suspected drug hit men opened fire on a family gathering at a tourist town in northern Mexico killing 13 people including a baby.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The White House on Monday called for Russia to withdraw forces from Georgia "without delay" as a newspaper reported Moscow had moved missile launchers into the breakaway South Ossetia region.

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - An Egyptian woman who gave birth to septuplets last week after taking fertility drugs said on Monday her family was too poor to raise the newborns.

GENEVA (Reuters) - The head of the World Bank added his voice on Monday to those calling for a revival of last month's abortive world trade talks.

ROME (Reuters) - About 60 newly hatched sea turtles lost their way during their ritual passage to the sea and marched into an Italian restaurant instead, a conservation worker said on Monday.

CRAWFORD, Texas (Reuters) - The United States praised Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a committed partner against terrorism and pledged after his resignation on Monday to keep a good relationship with the new government and fight extremism together.

LONDON (Reuters) - A pedophile who acted as a "librarian" for a global Internet child abuse ring was jailed on Monday after one of the biggest undercover police investigations into online abuse in Britain.

DECIN, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Vera Machutova woke one August night in 1968 to the thunder of Soviet tanks surging through this Czech city on the East German frontier.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A former Maoist guerrilla chief who led a decade-long insurgency against Nepal's Hindu monarchy was sworn in on Monday as the Himalayan republic's first prime minister.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - NATO ministers will pledge support for Georgia and reiterate a promise of future membership on Tuesday while criticizing Russian intervention in the country and urging Moscow to respect a peace deal, a spokeswoman said.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States will keep helping Pakistan fight extremism, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Monday after President Pervez Musharraf, a close U.S. ally in counter-terrorism efforts, said he was quitting.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Government plans to decriminalize drug use are stirring controversy in Argentina's slums, where residents blame a crack-like drug called paco for fueling crime, violence and desperation.

Daniel Magnowski is a correspondent for Reuters in West and Central Africa, based in Dakar, Senegal. Before moving to Africa this year, Daniel covered commodities and financial markets for Reuters in London. In the following story he tells of his experience of covering the aftermath of the military coup in Mauritania this month and his encounter with the new junta leader.

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Four years ago state ballot measures were at the center of the presidential election, and were credited with helping George W. Bush win a second term in office.

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The secretary general of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said on Sunday he believed a power-sharing deal with the country's ruling party will be reached soon.

Manila (Reuters) - Hundreds of Muslim guerillas attacked two towns in the Philippines troubled south on Monday, killing 34 people, burning homes and looting banks before being driven out by the military.

HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party will continue power-sharing talks with the opposition, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa said on Monday.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - A state government in eastern Indian is encouraging people to eat rats in an effort to battle soaring food prices and save grain stocks.

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Two years ago, the chief of Nepal's former Maoist rebels was on the Himalayan nation's most wanted list with a price of more than $70,000 on his head.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it was ready to help fellow Muslim states launch satellites into orbit after it successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit -- a move that may increase Western suspicions over its atomic ambitions.