Fighting raged around the capital of Georgia's breakaway South Ossetia as Georgian troops, backed by warplanes, have pounded separatist forces in a bid to retake control of the territory.
Georgian forces have started an operation to "restore constitutional order" in the breakaway province of South Ossetia, Russia's Interfax news agency quoted a top Georgian commander as saying on August 7.
Pakistan's ruling coalition led by the party of slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has agreed to begin impeachment proceedings against President Pervez Musharraf, a move that is likely to deepen political instability in the country.
KHAR, Pakistan -- At least 25 pro-Taliban militants and two Pakistani soldiers have died in fierce clashes in a tribal region along the Afghan border, government officials said.
Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has put off a visit to China, an official said, as opponents in the coalition government consulted over his possible impeachment.
MAKHACHKALA, Russia -- Russian authorities have closed a newspaper in the southern republic of Daghestan, accusing it of spreading extremist views, Russia's Prosecutor-General said.
MOSCOW -- A senior Russian officer has accused Georgia of sending military jets into the troubled breakaway province of South Ossetia, but Tbilisi has swiftly denied the allegation.
ISLAMABAD -- Pakistan's four-month-old civilian government has suspended a decree issued last month to put the military's powerful and controversial spy agency under Interior Ministry control, according to an official statement.
Russia has said it would not remain indifferent if violence continues to escalate in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia, Interfax news agency reported, quoting a Russian diplomat.
Iran has decided to spare the lives of four people sentenced to death by stoning and is halting the implementation of other such sentences pending a review of their cases, the judiciary has said.
Kyrgyzstan's police have accused a group of U.S. officials of illegal possession of guns and seized dozens of firearms from their apartment, but the U.S. Embassy in the Central Asian state has denied the charge.
Iran's written reply to a proposal backed by six world powers aimed at defusing a row over Tehran's disputed nuclear program has been handed over to European Union officials, Iran's Fars news agency has said.
Russia has accused Georgia of using disproportionate force in its breakaway province of South Ossetia, at the center of a row between the two countries that the West worries could spill over into conflict.
Iraqi political leaders have reached a tentative compromise that could resolve a stalemate over the fate of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk and allow local elections to go ahead, the deputy speaker of parliament said.
A Belarusian opposition party has sacked its jailed leader, seen in the West as the country's most prominent political prisoner, ahead of parliamentary elections in September.
Iran faces more punitive measures, including sanctions, if it does not respond positively to an offer by major powers to rein in its nuclear program in exchange for incentives, the U.S. State Department has said.
James Owen, chief financial officer of BP's Russian oil joint venture TNK-BP, has resigned, citing a conflict between the British major and its partners, TNK-BP said in a statement.
Iranian nuclear negotiator Said Jalili and European Union foreign-policy chief Javier Solana have discussed an offer from major powers on Tehran's nuclear program, a EU official
Efforts to pass an election law that has stoked tensions with Iraq's minority Kurds faced problems with parliament struggling to get enough members to hold a special session.
Afghanistan has accepted Pakistan's offer to resume talks that the Kabul government had boycotted after accusing its neighbor of being behind a series of attacks.
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