AP - Poland's center-right governing party has chosen Parliament Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski as its candidate for president, a largely ceremonial job but one with significant symbolic weight in this proud and patriotic country.

AP - Italian police say they have intercepted an envelope containing a bullet addressed to Premier Silvio Berlusconi on the eve of regional elections in Italy.

AP - An official says Germany has reopened discussions with the United States about the possibility of taking in selected inmates to be released from the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

AP - An apartment block west of Moscow partially collapsed following a suspected gas explosion Saturday, killing three people and possibly trapping others under the rubble.

Reuters - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejected on Sunday a description of President Barack Obama as Israel's 'greatest disaster,' a phrase a best-selling newspaper attributed to an anonymous confidant of the premier.

Politico - Obama is under heavy pressure to reverse course and try him instead in a military commission.

Reuters - Differences over Iran and Turkey's bid to join the European Union will dominate talks when German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey on Monday.

AP - More than seven years ago, a suspected Afghan militant was brought to a dimly lit CIA compound northeast of the airport in Kabul. The CIA called it the Salt Pit. Inmates knew it as the dark prison.

AP - A top White House adviser says the U.S. is making progress in its efforts to find allies to hold the line on Iran's nuclear ambitions.

AP - Top advisers to President Barack Obama say the relationship between the U.S. and Israel remains strong despite sometimes blunt talk and disagreements between the two countries.

AP - Britain's Europe Minister Chris Bryant has taken part in Parliament's first gay marriage, celebrating a civil partnership ceremony at the historic venue.

AFP - Turkey on Saturday snubbed German Chancellor Angela Merkel's proposal for its 'privileged partnership' with the EU, saying such a status was non-existent in the bloc it is trying to join.

Politico - Marco Rubio uses Fox debate to repeatedly link Gov. Charlie Crist to President Obama.

Politico - Obama aims for new regulations for Wall Street by September, the second anniversary of the meltdown.

AP - Gov. Charlie Crist and Marco Rubio are asking Florida voters who they trust more in their first debate in a Republican primary for a U.S. Senate seat.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON — With her husband deployed in Iraq with a Stryker brigade from Washington state's Joint Base Lewis-McChord, 20-year-old Lauren Silva isn't your typical college student. But when it comes to finding money for tuition, books and other expenses, she's not so different.

CQPolitics.com - Former GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin received a raucous welcome from a police-estimated crowd of 8,000 at a tea party rally in Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's (D) hometown of Searchlight, Nev.

AP - The 'special relationship' is not so special any more.

AP - Voters began casting ballots Sunday in Italy's regional elections, which are being seen as an important test of popularity for Premier Silvio Berlusconi.

McClatchy Newspapers - WASHINGTON_President Barack Obama made a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday, visiting with President Hamid Karzai and U.S. commanders and troops.

CQPolitics.com - Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, trailing by wide margins in most polls, wasted little time going on the attack against former state Speaker Marco Rubio in the first debate of the hotly contested Republican Senate primary.

Politico - Obama, in a surprise visit, abruptly yanks the spotlight onto biggest foreign policy and military challenge.

AP - Fresh from a bruising victory on health care and a nuclear arms deal with Russia, President Barack Obama turned to a third campaign promise — victory and an honorable exit from Afghanistan. That could prove tougher than any challenge overcome so far, and the president appears to know it.

AP - A U.S. official says some of the people arrested by the FBI in Midwest raids this weekend face gun charges.

Politico - That Obama seems poised to plow ahead on a ambitious agenda is a testament to the pendulum of Washington politics – when you’re hot, you’re hot.

CQPolitics.com - Years ago, House Appropriations Chairman Jamie L.

AP - The Marine Corps' commandant said he won't force his troops to bunk with gays on base and would give them separate rooms if Congress votes to allow openly gay service.

AP - Britain's Foreign Office says the U.K. has deep concerns over progress in building an Afghan national police force.

McClatchy Newspapers - KABUL, Afghanistan - President Barack Obama paid a surprise visit to Afghanistan Sunday as he sought to steel American forces for a tough summer fight and deliver a political jolt to Afghan President Hamid Karzai as he weighs potential peace talks with the Taliban.

Reuters - The United Nations must boost peacekeeping forces in areas of Africa where Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels operate to stop massacres such as one that killed more than 300 people in December, a rights group said.