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BANJUL, (Reuters) – Gambian President Yahya  Jammeh benefited from a strong media bias and greater financial  resources than his rivals to secure a new five-year term in  elections, the African Union said on Saturday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Slowly but surely, drug  cartels have ground down support for Mexico’s ruling  conservatives with a trail of dead over the past five years.

KINSHASA, (Reuters) – Congo plans to push ahead  with the country’s second-post war election today, defying  fears that a delay would be needed due to logistical problems  and critics who called for the process to be reviewed because of  irregularities.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Barbados-born R&B singer  Rihanna scored a record-breaking double yesterday as her “Talk  That Talk” debuted at the top of the album charts and she held  onto first place in the singles ranking.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – At age 87, Doris Day is not  exactly pop music’s latest hot young artist.

(Reuters) – It’s been a week since Abhishek Bachchan welcomed a newborn girl into his life, but the father of Bollywood’s latest celebrity baby said on Tuesday he’s still coming to terms with fatherhood.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Singer Robin Gibb of the  Bee Gees on Wednesday said he is on the road to recovery after  being “very unwell” in recent days, and he thanked fans for  their support in a message posted on his website.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British singer George  Michael has been forced to postpone the rest of his European  tour due to ongoing treatment for “severe” pneumonia, his  spokeswoman said on Friday.

NEW YORK, Nov 27 (Reuters) – Following are the top 10  movies at the North American box office for the weekend  beginning on Nov.

YAKKAGHUND, Pakistan (Reuters) – NATO helicopters and fighter jets attacked two military outposts in northwest Pakistan yesterday, killing as many as 28 troops and plunging US-Pakistan relations deeper into crisis.

CAIRO – Arab states plan to cut commercial ties with President Bashar al-Assad’s government and freeze its assets in response to violence in Syria, where activists say 42 civilians and soldiers died yesterday.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Protesters demanding an end  to army rule in Egypt sought last night to build on momentum  from a mass protest, bedding down in Cairo’s Tahrir Square for a  ninth day just two days before the first free parliamentary  polls in living memory.

PORT OF SPAIN,  (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s  prime minister came under public pressure yesterday to reveal  more details of an alleged death plot against her that she  blamed on criminals fighting back against a government  crackdown.

JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – Time is quickly  running out to strike a deal at global climate talks to save a  Kyoto Protocol in its death throes and make major cuts in the  greenhouse gas emissions that scientists blame for rising  temperatures, wilder weather and crop failures.

THE HAGUE/MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican  human rights activists want the International Criminal Court to  investigate President Felipe Calderon, top officials and the  country’s most-wanted drug trafficker, accusing them of allowing  subordinates to kill, torture and kidnap civilians.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – The first shipment of gold bars  arrived home in Venezuela yesterday after President Hugo Chavez  ordered that almost all of the country’s foreign bullion  reserves be repatriated from Western bank vaults.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Suspected drug gang hitmen  murdered more than 20 people and dumped their bodies in the  centre of Mexico’s second city of Guadalajara yesterday.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian government yesterday suspended Chevron Corp’s drilling rights in Brazil  until it clarifies the causes of an offshore oil spill, the  latest twist in a political firestorm threatening the U.S. 

RIYADH, (Reuters) – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah  Saleh signed a deal yesterday under which he will step down  after 33 years in power and 10 months of protests against his  rule that brought the country to the brink of civil war.

LONDON, (Reuters) – The world’s largest backer  of the fight against AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria said yesterday it was cutting new grants for countries battling the  diseases and bringing in a new manager to ensure better  administration.