Three security officers were stabbed to death and another wounded in renewed violence in far northwest China's Xinjiang region, state media said.
Iraqi authorities have imposed a curfew on the capital of restive Diyala Governorate after the governor survived a suicide bomb attack on his convoy.
The NATO-led force in Afghanistan has denied reports that it killed more than a dozen civilians in an air strike to the northeast of the capital.
The attack follows days of fighting in a militant hot spot north of Peshawar in which about 150 militants, including a senior Al-Qaeda member, have reportedly been killed.
Iran's chief atomic negotiator and the man representing six world powers have discussed Tehran's nuclear program in telephone talks, but an EU official said there has been no change in the dispute.
A court in Belarus has sentenced U.S. lawyer Emmanuel Zeltser to three years in jail on charges of industrial espionage and carrying forged documents.
Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces killed 25 Taliban insurgents and eight civilians after an ambush in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military has said.
More than 100 Islamist militants and nine Pakistani soldiers have been killed in fierce fighting over the last four days in the tribal region of Bajaur, a military spokesman has said.
U.S. President George W. Bush has said he used talks with China's leaders during the Beijing Olympics to press them to use their influence with Sudan to help end the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice told Japan that Washington would not remove North Korea from a U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism on the initial deadline of August 11, Japanese Foreign Minister Masahiko Komura has said.
U.S.-ally Kuwait has urged Iran to resolve tensions with the West over its nuclear program, saying the dispute undermined the interests of Persian Gulf states with which it shares a vital oil-export route.
Afghan soldiers backed by international air support have killed more than 20 Taliban insurgents in the east and west of the country, a provincial police chief and the U.S. military said.
U.S. President George W. Bush has taken another swipe at China on human rights and religious freedoms, a day before he holds talks with its leaders.
An old political ally of President Pervez Musharraf has said Pakistan's embattled former army chief will not use his powers to dissolve the National Assembly to preempt moves to impeach him.
Iran described two days of talks with a top International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) official as "constructive" and vowed future discussions with the UN agency about Tehran's nuclear program.
Britain, France, Germany, and the United States are considering imposing additional sanctions on Iran over its nuclear work, possibly in the energy, reinsurance, or financial sectors, a senior British official has said.
U.S.-led coalition forces accidentally killed four Afghan women and a child along with several militants during an operation targeting a Taliban insurgent, a U.S. military statement said.
Chief Executive Robert Dudley of BP's troubled Russian joint venture, TNK-BP, has escaped a possible three-year ban from doing his job in a Moscow court that said he violated the Russian Labor Code.
Georgia has said it was opening a corridor to allow women and children to evacuate the capital of breakaway South Ossetia, which was under siege by Georgian forces.
Influential Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr would dissolve his militia if the United States starts withdrawing troops according to a set timetable, his spokesman has said.
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