World News Briefs -- March 8, 2009

Relatives carry a coffin with a body of a policeman killed in a suicide bombing outside the police academy in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 8, 2009. A suicide bomber struck police lined up at the entrance of the main police academy in Baghdad on Sunday, killing more than two dozen people and wounding dozens of others, officials said. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

WORLD NEWS BRIEFS

MIDDLE EAST

US envoys hold 'constructive' talks in Syria.

In Mideast, Clinton turns up the caution.

Iraq's Sunni Awakening movement takes first place in Anbar province elections.

Palestinian Authority Premier quits to help unify Palestinians. More news here.

ASIA

Asia Pacific joint securty statement takes aim at China's military build-up

China clamps down ahead of key Tibetan anniversary.

Afghan leader Karzai backs Obama's call on Taliban.

42 members of Bangladesh unit detained for mutiny, police say.

Attack exposes a vulnerable Pakistan.

AFRICA

Zimbabwe Prime Minister flies to Botswana. More news on his accident here, here, and here.

Rights activist Oscar Kamau Kingara shot dead in central Nairobi.

Sudan's president warns foreigners in Darfur.

EUROPE

Sarkozy embraces NATO, and bigger role for France.

Disrepair in South Ossetia dims hopes.

Polish president: Missile defense should go ahead.

AMERICAS

Obama will use spring summit to bring Cuba in from the cold.

Military may help Mexico fight drugs.

Mexico morgues crowded with mounting drug-war dead.

AMIA investigator tortured in Argentina.

TERRORISM

Clarifying the war on terror -- an editorial.

U.S. Border lawmakers fear drug-terrorism link.

Terrorist hacker tells all.

FINANCIAL/ECONOMIC CRISIS

Recession on track to be longest in postwar period.

World Bank says global economy will shrink in 2009.