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Mexico: 13 slain

MEXICO CITY — A pair of shootouts between troops and gunmen in northern Mexico have killed 13 people, including a bystander and a drug trafficker linked to the killing of a retired army officer.

Navy spokesman Adm. Jose Luis Vergara said troops were searching a villa Friday in a suburb of Monterrey named Juarez when they were ambushed by a group of heavily armed men. Eight gunmen were killed and nine more were arrested in the initial shootout, Vergara said.

India: Summit

NEW DELHI — Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh will attend an international climate summit in Copenhagen, a spokesman said Saturday, ending days of speculation about the country's level of representation at the landmark conference.

Singh will address the U.N. summit during his two-day visit beginning Dec. 17, said Muthu Kumar, a spokesman in the prime minister's office.

This past week, India pledged to significantly slow the growth of its carbon emissions over the next decade, closely following pledges made by the United States and China to cut back on their emission levels.

Namibia: Poll results

WINDHOEK — Namibia's election commission says President Hifikepunye Pohamba has won re-election, with more than six times as many votes as his nearest rival.

According to results posted Saturday on the Election Commission of Namibia's Web site, Pohamba won 611,241 votes, or 75 percent.

His long-governing South West African People's Organization, a former guerrilla movement known as SWAPO, won about 75 percent of the vote in the National Assembly elections held alongside the presidential voting Nov. 27-28.

Hidipo Hamutenya, a former foreign minister, was second in the presidential race with 88,640 votes.

Iraq: Elections

BAGHDAD — Iraq's vice president said Saturday there are "optimistic signs" toward a political agreement on parliamentary elections, but warned he could again veto the plan if it does not meet his demands for greater Sunni outreach in the balloting.

Tariq al-Hashemi has held up the planning for scheduled Jan. 16 elections because he wants to give a greater voice to Iraqis living abroad, most of whom are fellow Sunni Arabs and could boost Sunni seats in the new 323-seat parliament.