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Officials: Deal calls for troop pullback in Iraq
August 21, 2008
BAGHDAD (AP) _ Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials told The Associat » Full Story
Mexico starts campaign to save endangered porpoise
August 21, 2008
ENSENADA, Mexico (AP) _ Mexico said Wednesday it will invest 163 million pesos (US$16 million) to save a highly endangered species of porpoise in the upper Gulf of California, asking reluctant fisherm » Full Story
Saakashvili doubts Russians will withdraw
August 21, 2008
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) _ Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said Wednesday that he does not believe Russia will soon withdraw from most of the country, suggesting there was little Georgians could d » Full Story
Russia moves toward pullback but shows strength
August 20, 2008
POTI, Georgia (AP) — Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized fo » Full Story
Bomber kills 43 at Algerian police academy
August 20, 2008
ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — A suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into a line of applicants at an Algerian police academy Tuesday, killing at least 43 people in the deadliest terror attack to jo » Full Story
Iraqi Sunnis outraged over Diyala raids, arrests
August 20, 2008
BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s largest Sunni party accused government security forces of sectarian bias Tuesday after soldiers arrested a Sunni university president and a Sunni provincial council member northe » Full Story
Afghan militants kill 10 French, strike at US base
August 20, 2008
SUROBI, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide » Full Story
Divisions emerge in Pakistan’s ruling coalition
August 20, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Just a day after Pervez Musharraf’s resignation, Pakistan’s governing coalition fell into wrangling Tuesday over restoring the judges he fired, exposing troublesome division » Full Story
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa dies at 59
August 20, 2008
PARIS (AP) — The French president’s office says Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa has died. He was 59.
The statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office did not say how, when or where the » Full Story
The statement from President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office did not say how, when or where the » Full Story
China’s Olympic ceremony features sacrifices
August 20, 2008
BEIJING (AP) — Martial arts student Cheng Jianghua only saw the army barracks he stayed in and the stadium where he performed at the spectacular Olympics opening ceremony. But his sacrifices were mino » Full Story