FP roundup 9/29

Americas
Analysts predict a grim September jobs report for the United States.
Venezuela plans to develop nuclear power, President Hugo Chavez says.
Rafael Correa is claiming victory in a constitutional referendum that will give the Ecuadoran president broad new powers.

Asia
China's astronauts have a returned from their spacewalk to a hero's welcome.
Pakistani feminists are ridiculing President Asif Ali Zardari for his now-infamous encounter with Sarah Palin.
The U.S. House of Representatives passed the nuclear deal with India. Next up? The Senate, where a few senators might choose to block it.

Middle East
Five bombs killed at least 31 people in Baghdad.
Syria's state media is blaming foreigners for Saturday's bomb, which killed 17 people near a Shiite shrine in Damascus. Blowback?
A car bomb struck a military bus in Tripoli, Lebanon, killing at least five people.

Europe and the Caucasus
The Social Democrats won the most seats in the Austrian elections, but two far-right parties also made big gains.
Belarus's opposition parties have so far won zero seats in that country's parliamentary elections.
Georgia's economy is battered, but not destroyed by last month's war.

Elsewhere
The U.S.-led war on terrorism is not weakening al Qaeda, a majority of respondents in a massive global BBC poll believe.
Ban Ki-moon, the U.N. Secretary-General, cuts a low profile on the world stage.