The United States on Monday voiced hope that the Venezuelan opposition's views would not be ignored, after leftist President Hugo Chavez, in power for 14 years, won re-election again.

"We believe that the views of the more than six million people who voted for the opposition should be taken into account going forward," said William Ostick, the State Department's spokesman for the Western Hemisphere.

President Barack Obama has stashed $181 million into his re-election account to cheer supporters after his limp debate performance, but several polls show movement towards Republican Mitt Romney.

Obama's camp Saturday announced its biggest monthly haul of the 2012 race with its September fund-raising figures, a day after supporters got another fillip with news that the U.S. unemployment rate dipped below eight percent.

The Yemeni army foiled a car bomb attack on the Anad air base used by U.S. soldiers in the southern province of Lahj, a military official told Agence France Presse on Saturday.

"We foiled an attack by a car packed with explosives that managed to breach several security checkpoints leading into the air base," said the official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

A U.S. judge ordered that the radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza be kept in detention, after a brief court hearing Saturday in New York where the terror suspect was told of the 11 charges he faces.

Hamza, who lacked his trademark hook on the stump of his right arm, did not speak at the hearing which followed his extradition from Britain and was a prelude to a formal arraignment due Tuesday where he will be formally charged.

Spain gave the final green light Friday for the U.S. navy to deploy four ships equipped with missile interceptors in its territory as part of NATO's ballistic defense shield.

Equipped with Aegis defense systems, the ships are to be deployed at a U.S. naval base in Rota, southern Spain by 2013, along with 1,400 US personnel, under a deal agreed a year ago, the government said.

Radical Islamist preacher Abu Hamza and four other terrorism suspects are set to be extradited to the United States after a British court Friday rejected their last-ditch attempts to block their removal.

A legal saga that has dragged on for more than a decade in the courts of Britain and Europe finally ended when two senior judges at the High Court in London dismissed the men's pleas to be allowed a stay of extradition.

Russian suspects in a U.S. probe into alleged smuggling of high-tech military technology to Russia denied wrongdoing as a senior official accused Washington of reluctance to share expertise.

While Russia's authorities denied any links to an alleged military exports ring, some saw the case as a political time bomb similar in scope to the 2010 spy-swap which involved ten agents including the sultry redhead Anna Chapman.

Mitt Romney said late Thursday that his secretly-filmed remarks dismissing 47 percent of Americans as government dependents were "completely wrong."

Fresh from a victory in the first presidential debate that seemed to get his campaign back on track after the earlier remarks derailed it, the Republican challenger addressed the controversy in an interview on Fox News.

President Barack Obama on Thursday landed the verbal blows he missed the previous night in his debate with Mitt Romney, clawing at his Republican foe to stop him gaining a boost in the polls.

Obama went on the attack at big rallies in Colorado and Wisconsin and was energetic, combative and concise, the opposite of the tired and long-winded candidate who was decisively beaten by Romney on Wednesday night.

The U.S. State Department on Thursday added the Yemeni Islamist group Ansar al-Sharia (AAS) to its list of terror organizations, saying it is an offshoot of Al-Qaida in the Arabian peninsula (AQAP).

"AAS is simply AQAP's effort to rebrand itself, with the aim of manipulating people to join AQAP's terrorist cause," the State Department said in a statement.