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The news from Africa includes a presidential election in Senegal on Sunday featuring an octogenarian incumbent and 14 challengers. And violence from Sudan's Darfur region continues to spill into neighboring Chad.

In Peru, so many former leaders have been accused of crimes that the country has designated a small prison specifically to house them. It's a symbol of corruption, but also of political dysfunction.

Eight U.S. attorneys may have been fired by the Bush administration for political reasons.

Sen. John Sununu of New Hampshire has called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Sununu is the first Republican to join a chorus of Democrats in Congress who say the attorney general had an improper role in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.

As a debate over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys unfolds, White House officials may be subpoenaed by Congress, and more e-mail related to the case is likely to be made public.

President Vladimir Putin often is praised for creating stability and ending the lawlessness and corruption under his predecessor, Boris Yeltsin. But not everyone agrees: Some say Putin has stymied political progress in the process.

The Supreme Court has decided to review the cases of Guantanamo detainees challenging their indefinite confinement. The decision is a reversal for the court, which refused to consider the cases earlier this year.

Kennebunkport, Maine, is the site of a visit between President Bush and his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin. Marshall Goldman of Harvard's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies offers his insights on the meeting.

The two leaders hope to calm recent tensions over U.S. plans for a Europe-based missile shield and NATO expansion. Officials from both sides are cautioning that no big breakthroughs are expected.

After five days of clashes, the militant organization Hamas is in control of almost all of the Gaza Strip. Hamas fighters have been firing mortars and rockets at the few remaining compounds in Gaza under control of Fatah.