International News

	Canada's PM dissolves Parliament, calls election Canada's prime minister has dissolved Parliament and called an early election.
	Premier: Ike damages 80 pct of homes on Grand Turk The Turks and Caicos premier says Hurricane Ike has damaged 80 percent of the homes on Grand Turk island.
	Unknown powder sent to US facilities in Pakistan Tests are being carried out on a white powder that was sent to two American diplomatic posts in Pakistan.
	Cheney holds talks in Italy on Georgia crisis Vice President Cheney is continuing his efforts to get a coordinated response to Russia's actions in Georgia.
	Cuba declines US offer of disaster assessment Cuba has politely declined a U.S. offer to send a disaster assessment team to the island in the aftermatch of Hurricane Gustav.
	Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35 The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president.
	Medvedev: 'Russia is a nation to be reckoned with' Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev says his country is a "nation to be reckoned with."
	Honduras issues 1,051-year sentence in massacre A Honduran court has sentenced a former prison official to 1,051 years in jail for the deaths of 69 people in a 2003 prison massacre.
	Police say hundreds may be dead Authorities in Haiti fear that the death toll in the flooded city of Gonaives could rise into the hundreds.
	Six dead in renewed attack on outdoor market The same outdoor market in northern Iraq that was the scene of a deadly suicide bombing last month has been struck again.