U.S. Sen. Jim Webb obtained the release Saturday of American John Yettaw, who had been sentenced to seven years of hard labor in Myanmar for visiting detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
Webb will accompany Yettaw to Bangkok, Thailand, Sunday on a military aircraft, his office said.
Webb also met for about 40 minutes Saturday with Suu Kyi, a witness said. It was not known what they discussed.

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is a Mongolian politician and the President of Mongolia.

Tsakhia Elbegdorj won the presidency in with a narrow election win over incumbent Nambaryn Enkhbayar in May 24 2009. He was set to take office later in the month.
Standing for the opposition Democratic Party, Elbegdorj won just over 51% of the vote, to 47% for Enkhbayar, whose ruling Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP) said it accepted the result as fair.

Voters in Mongolia are electing a new president, a year after vote-rigging claims in parliamentary polls triggered deadly riots in the country.
Current President Nambaryn Enkhbayar of the former Communist party is being challenged by Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj of the main opposition Democratic Party.
Polls opened at 2300 GMT on Saturday are due to close at 1400 GMT on Sunday.

Voters in Mongolia are preparing to head to the polls in an election that is expected to see a closely-fought race for the presidency.
Sunday’s vote across the vast land-locked country pits Nambaryn Enkhbayar, the incumbent president and leader of the Mongolian People’ Revolutionary party (MPRP), against opposition leader, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, of the Democratic Party.
Local media reports suggest that Enkhbayar is expected to win the election but with a slim majority.
He has promised to be tough on law and order and continue government support for his party’s rural base, while …

South Korean ex-President Roh Moo-hyun, who apparently jumped to his death on Saturday, rose to office as champion of a generation that hit the streets to fight for democracy, but left it largely written off as a failed leader.
A self-taught lawyer whose formal education ended at high school, Roh’s most celebrated moment came when he went to Pyongyang in 2007 for a summit with Kim Jong-il in what was only the second meeting of leaders of the divided peninsula.
The left-leaning Roh, 62, won the 2002 presidential election by riding a …

Roh Moo-hyun was the 16th President of South Korea.

Ichirō Ozawa is a Japanese politician. Formerly a chief secretary of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)

Yukio Hatoyama has been chosen as leader of Japan’s opposition Democratic Party, in the run-up to parliamentary elections later this year.
The 62-year-old grandson of a former prime minister replaces Ichiro Ozawa, who stepped down amid a fund-raising scandal on May 11.
The Democrats have promised to cut wasteful spending and bureaucracy.
General elections are due by October, and Saturday’s opinion polls suggest the Democrats may be ahead of the long-ruling conservative Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), which has ruled for about 50 years.

India’s ruling Congress party looked set to take an unexpectedly decisive general election victory as the 400 million-plus votes cast during the month-long election were counted this morning.
The party defied exit polls and analysts’ predictions, which had indicated a much closer result. With more than 70% of the vote counted the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) was set to take more than 250 seats and the opposition alliance led by the Bharatiya Janata party (BJP) forecast to take 160.