Morning Brief: Guardians: No recount necessary

Asia

• The U.S. navy continued to shadow a North Korean ship suspected of carrying weapons as it passed by Shanghai.
• A pro-government militant rival of Taliban leader Baithullah Mehsud has been killed in Pakistan.
• The U.S. and Kyrgyzstan have reached a deal over use of the Manas airbase. 

Middle East

• The Hamas-affiliated speaker of the Palestinian parliament was freed after three years in an Israeli prison. 
• Bomb attacks throughout Iraq killed at least 29 people yesterday. 
• Tensions are building in Nineveh, Iraq where local Kurds are refusing to accept the authority of an Arab nationalist governor. 

Europe and Caucasus

• The French Parliament has created a commission that could lead to the banning of the burqa. 
• The president of the Russian region of Ingushetia remains in critical condition after being wounded in a suicide bombing yesterday.
• British lawmakers elected a new Speaker of the House of Commons. 

Africa

• Zimbabwe's mining minister has been barred from visiting Britain.
• A failed prison break in Congo led to rioting and rape of 20 female prisoners. 
• Kenya has rejected Somalia's request for troops to help fight its growing insurgency. 

Americas

• Uruguay is compensating those taken as political prisoners during the country's military dictatorship in the 1970s and 80s. 
• Mexican drug cartels are increasingly recruiting U.S. teens as hired guns. 
• Tropical storm Andres is growing into the Pacific season's first hurricane and is expected to hit the coast of Mexico today.