The breakaway province of Kosovo holds its third postwar parliamentary election on Saturday, ahead of a showdown with Serbia over the ethnic Albanian majority’s demand for independence.

The widow of a Pakistani journalist, shot dead last year after reporting that an al Qaeda leader was killed by a U.S. missile, was killed in a bomb blast on Saturday in a northwestern tribal region, a family member said.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Saturday said that he has a number of proposals to make at the upcoming heads of state summit of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.