Sergio --who works carrying coal bags in a market-- smokes a cigar during a break at the Israel Lewites market, in Managua.

MANAGUA (Reuters) - Tomas Borge, one of the founders of Nicaragua's leftist Sandinista movement who served as interior minister after the 1979 revolution that toppled U.S.-backed dictator Anastasio Somoza, died on Monday at the age of 81. The former guerilla fighter, considered one of the hardliners in Daniel Ortega's government in the 1980s, was hospitalized earlier this month for a lung infection and was moved to intensive care after complications from surgery. "It is with profound sorrow that we announce the end ... ...

TSKHINVALI, Georgia (Reuters) - A pro-Russian former KGB officer has won the presidency in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia and suggested he would push for the tiny territory to join Russia. A mountainous region of about 30,000 people, South Ossetia has been at the heart of Georgia's bitter relations with Russia since breaking from Georgian control in a war in the 1990s. Moscow recognized it as an independent nation after a brief war with Georgia in 2008. Internationally it is only recognized by Venezuela, Nicaragua and the Pacific nation of Nauru. ...