Asia – KABUL, Afganistan–President Hamid Karzai has acknowledged his presidential victory as fraud according to the AP. President Karzai asks the Afghan people not to turn this “victory” into a into a nightmare for the Afghan people. Karzai told AP, “There were irregularities. There must’ve also been fraud committed, no doubt. But the election was good and fair and worthy of praise, not of scorn, which the election received from the international media. That makes me very unhappy. That rather makes me angry.” As the UN-backed commission resigned due to claims that officials were “making all the decisions on their own.” If the UN-backed commission does order a runoff, there will be a second round election at the end of Oct.

Europe – SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain–Five senior members of the Basque party’s separatist party called Batasuna have been arrested in San Sebastian by Spanish authorities. One of the five members arrested was former party leader Arnaldo Otegi. The political group was outlawed in 2003 due to links to another separatist movement called Eta, whom according to the BBC, is the cause of “820 deaths during its campaign for an independent Basque homeland in Spain.” High Court Judge Baltasar Garzon ordered the arrests to be made under the suspicion that the Batasuna party was trying to reform under Eta.

Africa – CONAKRY, Guinea–As Guineans strike to remember those who died during protests two weeks ago, Guinea’s leader Captian Moussa Dadis Camara has struck a $7 billion dollar oil and mining deal with the Chinese. Not all members of the junta have seen this as beneficial, according to the BBC, “Agricultural Minister Abdourahmane Sano resigned on Monday, saying he could no longer show solidarity with the government.” The Chinese side of the affairs has not made any information available about the recent deal struck between the two nations.