Morning Brief: Abbas announces retirement

Americas

• The U.S. brokered pact to end Honduras's political crisis has failed, says ousted President Manuel Zelaya, as interim president Robert Micheletti announced he would form a cabinet without Zelaya's suporters. 
• Peru's Shining Path rebels attacked a military base, killing one soldiers. 

Asia

• Pakistani troops have entered what they call the "headquarters" of the Taliban. 
• China denounced U.S. protectionism a week before President Obama's visit.
• Burmese troops launched an attack on rebels in the country's northwest. 

Africa

• Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai has ended his boycott of cabinet meeting with President Robert Mugabe. 
• The world's diamond watchdog is giving Zimbabwe more time to comply with an order to clean up abuses in one of its fields. 
• The war crimes trial of former Congolese Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba will begin in April. 

Middle East

• Saudi officials have denied widespread media reports that they attacked rebel bases inside Yemen.
• Israel has rejected a U.N. General Assembly resolution urging it to investigate the findings of the Goldstone report.  
• Exxon-Mobile has signed a deal to develop a major oil field in Iraq.

Europe

• Serbia charged six former fighters for war crims committed during the Bosnian war. 
• Russia has arrested two neo-nazi suspects for the January killing of a human rights activist and a reporter. 
• British Prime Minister Gordon Brown strongly condemned the corruption of Hamid Karzai's government.