Russia has started to withdraw soldiers it sent to repair railways in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia, a spokesman for the troops has said.
Pakistani security forces have killed more than 25 militants in the troubled Swat valley in the northwest, a military spokesman said.
At least two people were killed and five wounded when a car exploded outside a police station in the southern Russian region of Ingushetia on July 30, police sources said.
The European Union has denounced Iran's recent execution of 29 convicts as "an affront to human dignity" and said it was deeply concerned about Tehran's increasing use of the death penalty.
The European Union has postponed a decision again on whether to unfreeze trade benefits for EU hopeful Serbia following the arrest last week of key war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic, diplomats said.
Iraqi forces have launched a major security operation in the northeastern Diyala Governorate, officials said, in the latest crackdown on Sunni Arab insurgents and Shi'ite militias.
Iran's president has called for developing nations to unite to fight what he said was bias shown by the UN Security Council and other world bodies that only serve the big powers' interests.
An Al-Qaeda chemical and biological weapons expert named Abu Khabab al-Masri was killed in a suspected U.S. missile strike, Pakistani intelligence officials said a day after the attack.
MINGORA, Pakistan -- Pro-Taliban militants attacked a security post and took up to 30 hostages on July 29 in Pakistan's Swat valley, a day after insurgents killed three army intelligence staffers, officials said.
The UN General Assembly has unanimously confirmed South Africa's Navanethem Pillay as the world body's new human rights chief, and activist groups urged her to be tough in her new post.
A suspected U.S. missile strike on a Pakistani madrasah killed six people, including foreigners, in tribal lands regarded as an Al-Qaeda and Taliban hotbed, intelligence officials said.
ranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad has said that Iran will seek "common ground" with the United States and five other world powers that have proposed incentives for Tehran to freeze its nuclear enrichment program.
Russian immigration authorities have said they would grant a visa to TNK-BP Chief Operating Officer Tim Summers, allowing him to stay in the country after the chief executive of BP's Russian joint venture left.
Floods in western Ukraine have killed 22 people, destroyed homes, farmland, and roads, and prompted the evacuation of 20,000 residents, officials have said.
The death toll in a July 27 bombing in Istanbul has risen to 16 while around 150 were wounded, state-run Anatolian news agency reported, in an attack hours ahead of a court case over banning the governing party.
MOSCOW -- Russia has announced plans to revive its once-mighty navy by building several aircraft carriers and upgrading its fleet of nuclear submarines in the coming years.
BAGHDAD -- Gunmen opened fire on Shi'ite pilgrims in southern Baghdad on July 27, killing seven of them as thousands of worshippers made their way to a revered shrine in the Iraqi capital, police said.
SALZBURG -- The arrest of Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic showed Belgrade's willingness to recognize its international obligations, and more arrests could follow, the Serbian prime minister said on July 27.
TEHRAN -- Iran has executed 29 convicted drug smugglers and other criminals in Tehran's Evin prison, state media reported, following an expanded crackdown on crime in the country.
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