A deadly shoot-out reportedly took place overnight in the Turkmen capital Ashgabat between members of an unidentified group and security forces. The U.S. Embassy in Ashgabat has confirmed a shoot-out in the city occurred, but no further details are immediately available.
Russian forces have withdrawn from some parts of Georgia proper -- including the Georgian port of Poti -- into the disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But 1,200 Russian troops and 19 checkpoints still remain.
President Viktor Yushchenko, locked in a battle for power and jurisdiction with his prime minister, has called for new arrangements to get Russia to pay more rent for its Black Sea Fleet base in Ukraine.
A suicide car bomb killed 30 people and wounded 40 others outside a police station in a predominantly Shi'ite town north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
Any attempt to arrest war crimes fugitive Ratko Mladic, vital for improving ties with the European Union, will be an extremely dangerous operation, Serbia's war crimes prosecutor said.
Russia must stake its claim to a slice of the Arctic's vast resources, the secretary of Russia's Security Council said at an unprecedented session of the council held on a desolate Arctic island.
KABUL (Reuters) -- At least 23 people were killed when Taliban insurgents ambushed a U.S. security firm convoy in southwestern Afghanistan on September 12, provincial officials said, in the second attack on the firm in as many days.
MOSCOW (Reuters) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has said that even if Georgia were on a firm path to NATO membership, he would not hesitate to attack it under circumstances similar to last month's conflict.
NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer is visiting Latvia's capital, Riga, for talks with the Latvian president and the foreign ministers of the three Baltic states -- Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
The strike was the first since a recent surge in tension between Pakistan and the United States over how to tackle the Taliban and Al-Qaeda on the Pakistani side of the border with Afghanistan.
KABUL (Reuters) -- U.S.-led forces have killed at least 10 militants and detained two during operations in eastern Afghanistan that also targeted the network of veteran Taliban commander Jalaluddin Haqqani, according to the U.S military.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has held talks in Poland, the first EU country he has visited since the Russia-Georgia crisis began last month. Appearing afterwards in a joint press conference with Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, Lavrov affirmed Moscow's opposition to the deployment of a U.S. missile shield in Central Europe, and he showed no sign of easing Moscow's tough stance over Georgia.
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