Gunmen in the Pakistani port city of Karachi set fire to two armored personnel carriers (APCs) bound for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, police have said.
Georgia's main east-west railway was reopened overnight following a fuel-train explosion on the line west of the central town of Gori, Georgian Railways has said.
The conflict in South Ossetia has seriously damaged international relations, Pope Benedict has said, while urging parties to keep their promises to resolve the crisis peacefully.
Iraq's most senior Shi'ite cleric, Ali al-Sistani, summoned reporters to his home on August 24 for a rare meeting, seeking to dispel rumors that the aging grand ayatollah had fallen seriously ill.
Iran has chosen the site and started designing a new 360-megawatt nuclear power plant, a senior atomic official said in remarks published on August 24.
Ukraine sees joining the NATO alliance as vital to its security, President Viktor Yushchenko said in a speech bound to antagonize Russia.
Reporters Without Borders chides China for placing restrictions on the activities of scores of human rights and pro-Tibet activists and some foreign journalists.
Official suggests Olmert wants to "find out what Russia is planning to sell," and could try to block the deal.
Investors and allies had hoped the resignation of Pervez Musharraf as president would end wrangling but the main coalition parties have been unable to settle a dispute over the judiciary that threatens to end their alliance.
Russia, the world's 10th largest economy, is by far the biggest country still outside the World Trade Organization.
Hundreds of people have demonstrated in Shindand district, shouting anti-U.S. slogans, after Afghan soldiers arrived in the area to bring aid to the victims' families.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has agreed to a debate in parliament next week on the restoration of judges deposed last year, putting back a deadline on a demand that could split the ruling coalition.
Belarus has discussed improving its ties with the United States with a senior U.S. diplomat, after authorities released the last of what the West calls political prisoners, the Foreign Ministry said.
A Russian court has rejected a parole appeal by former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, saying that the ex-boss of Yukos had failed to take part in a prison education program.
The first Russian Navy ship has returned to base in the Black Sea from operations against Georgia.
The United States and Iraq are close to a deal extending the presence of U.S. troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be "feasible," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said.
The United States expects to help Georgia rebuild its military following the conflict with Russia over breakaway South Ossetia, a top U.S. general has said.
France has paid tribute to 10 of its soldiers killed in an ambush in Afghanistan, and the government said parliament would debate the army's presence there after the country's worst military loss in 25 years.
Two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside Pakistan's main defense industry complex as workers were leaving at the end of their shift, killing at least 59 people, police said.
The United States and Poland have signed a deal to station elements of a U.S. missile-defense shield on Polish soil, a move certain to aggravate Russia-Western tensions over Moscow's intervention in Georgia.
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