Russia has said that U.S. President George W. Bush has insulted veterans of World War II by equating the evils of Soviet communism with Nazi fascism.
NATO countries have agreed to send more troops to the volatile south of Afghanistan, Canada's foreign minister has said, and another 200 Canadian troops could also be deployed.
Iran is running more than 5,000 centrifuges for enriching uranium, its president was quoted as saying in comments suggesting continued expansion of work the West fears is aimed at making bombs.
Iran plans to execute 30 people in the capital Tehran for murder, drug smuggling, and other crimes, newspapers reported
NATO-led troops killed four Afghan civilians and wounded three more when their vehicle failed to stop at a checkpoint in the southern province of Helmand, the NATO force said.
Kosovo's foreign minister has said he was ready for direct talks with Serbia, but his Serbian counterpart said Belgrade would not talk with a "secessionist" government.
Separatists in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia have said they did not object to German-mediated talks to solve the conflict over the Black Sea province, but insisted on their own agenda.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has invited Pope Benedict to visit Iraq, saying it would help the process of reconciliation.
War crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic will be extradited to the United Nations tribunal in The Hague at the earliest on July 28, Serbia's chief war crimes prosecutor Vladimir Vukcevic said.
A driver for Osama bin Laden was not told of any rights against self-incrimination under years of interrogation, FBI agents have told the Guantanamo war crimes court.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has said that Pakistan needs to do more to help curb the flow of militants across its border into Afghanistan as the Taliban has increased terrorist activity.
Beijing organizers have expressed regret that Iraqi athletes will not be able to take part in next month's Olympics after the suspension of the country's National Olympic Committee (NOC).
Iranian authorities have banned the evening edition of a large circulation newspaper for publishing news they said was harmful to the economy.
The U.S. government's former point man in the fight against the heroin trade in Afghanistan has accused Afghan President Hamid Karzai of obstructing counternarcotics efforts and protecting drug lords.
Leaders of Turkey, Georgia, and Azerbaijan have launched a railway project between the three countries, building on links already forged by gas and oil pipelines.
Afghan security forces and NATO-led forces were engaged in a joint operation to retake a remote town southwest of Kabul, the NATO force said.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has rejected a provincial election law as unconstitutional after Iraq's Kurdish lawmakers boycotted the parliament session that ratified it.
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has vowed to work with Belarus, an ex-Soviet state long at odds with Washington, to defeat "hegemonistic" U.S. imperialism.
The Pentagon has sought to play down the seriousness of growing violence in Afghanistan but declined to say the United States and NATO were winning their fight against Taliban insurgents.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has hailed the arrest this week of wartime Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic and said she hoped his army chief Ratko Mladic would be caught next.
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