Afghanistan’s opium crop down 19 percent
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Russia’s president said Tuesday he has signed an order recognizing the independence of two Georgian breakaway provinces, a move likely to increase tensions with the West over the conflict in the region.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said Tuesday he has signed an order recognizing the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, two breakaway regions in the Republic of Georgia.
Opposition members booed and heckled Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he spoke at the opening of the country’s parliament Tuesday, making clear they do not recognize his legitimacy.
A woman who survived last week’s Spanair airline crash in Madrid left the hospital Tuesday, saying she was “born again” by the disaster.
Tropical Storm Gustav became a hurricane as it roared toward Haiti early Tuesday, bringing with it the danger of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides.
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The United Nations has sent police and military patrols to a camp in western Sudan after reports fighting there killed civilians, a U.N. spokesman said Tuesday.
North Korea said Tuesday it has stopped disabling its nuclear plants and will consider restoring them because the United States has not removed it from a list of states that sponsor terrorism.
The wreckage of a C-130 cargo plane that disappeared shortly after takeoff in the southern Philippines Monday night was found Tuesday about two miles (3km) offshore, the Philippines News Agency reported.
Zimbabwe’s parliament was due to open Tuesday with President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU-PF party in a minority for the first time in the country’s history.
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Russian lawmakers asked President Dmitry Medvedev Monday to recognize the independence of two breakaway regions of Georgia: Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Tropical Storm Gustav formed Monday in the central Caribbean, the National Hurricane Center said.
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Afghanistan’s government on Monday demanded a review of international troops within its borders after an airstrike which Afghanistan believes killed about 90 civilians — most of them children.
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Monday there will be no agreement on a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq unless it includes a “specific” timeline and is not “open-ended.”
Nuclear-armed Pakistan — a key U.S. ally in the “war on terror” — was plunged into fresh political turmoil Monday as former prime minister Nawaz Sharif withdrew his party from the country’s ruling coalition after a deadline passed for dozens of judges fired by ex-president Pervez Musharraf to be reinstated.
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Zimbabwean lawmakers on Monday voted for Lovemore Moyo of the main Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party as speaker of the parliament — making him the first speaker from the opposition.
Police in Zimbabwe detained two opposition party members Monday as they arrived to be sworn in at the opening session of parliament, according to officials with the opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change.
Militants attacked the home of a lawmaker in Pakistan’s violence-plagued northwest Monday, killing 10 people in the latest unrest to hit the country since the resignation of President Pervez Musharraf, authorities said.
Nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners Israel plans to release as a goodwill gesture aimed at bolstering efforts to end decades of conflict in the region arrived at a checkpoint in the West Bank Monday, an Israeli government spokesman said.
Russian lawmakers asked President Dmitry Medvedev Monday to recognize the independence of two breakaway regions of Georgia: Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
A Iran-bound Boeing 737 with 90 people on board crashed Sunday just outside the airport in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, killing most passengers, a government official said.
Eight Americans arrested for planning or staging protests in Beijing were deported to the United States on Sunday, a U.S. Embassy spokesman said.
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A plane crash in eastern Guatemala on Sunday killed 10 people, including eight Americans, a Guatemalan official told CNN.
Israel on Monday will release nearly 200 Palestinian prisoners, including two convicted murders, according to the government.
A Iran-bound Boeing 737 has crashed near the airport in Kyrgyzstan’s capital, Bishkek, a government official said. Ramis Satybekov, an official from Kyrgyzstan’s Emergency Situations Ministry, told CNN roughly 60 passengers were killed and more than 20 people injured.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has fired two military commanders in the wake of a U.S. airstrike in western Afghanistan that killed 89 civilians, according to a statement from Karzai’s office.
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Two roadside bombs exploded in a quick succession in central Baghdad on Sunday morning, killing four people and wounding 14 others, according to an official with Iraq’s Interior Ministry.
A Spanair MD-82 jet made unscheduled landing at an airport in southern Spain Sunday, just five days after an identical jet operated by the airline crashed at Madrid’s airport killing 154 people, Spain’s airport authority said.
China’s Olympic organizers on Sunday prepared to bring the 2008 Summer Games to a close with a celebration as extravagant as the kick-off 16 days earlier.
China’s Olympic organizers on Sunday prepared to bring the 2008 Summer Games to a close with a celebration as extravagant as the kick-off 16 days earlier.
China’s Olympic organizers on Sunday prepared to bring the 2008 Summer Games to a close with a celebration as extravagant as the kick-off 16 days earlier.
China’s Olympic organizers on Sunday prepared to bring the 2008 Summer Games to a close with a celebration as extravagant as the kick-off 16 days earlier.
China’s Olympic organizers on Sunday prepared to bring the 2008 Summer Games to a close with a celebration as extravagant as the kick-off 16 days earlier.
Two international journalists, along with their Somali colleague and a driver, were kidnapped Saturday, a journalists’ organization in Somalia said.
A train carrying fuel hit a mine and burst into flames near the Georgian city of Gori Sunday morning, according to an Interior Ministry spokesman.
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Pakistan People’s Party co-chair and widower of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, has accepted the nomination to be his party’s candidate for the Pakistani presidency, PPP officials said Saturday night.