Two female athletes from Russia and Georgia have embraced on an Olympic podium
in a sign of national unity as their countries wage war.
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American diplomats have conceded that there are few options for dealing what President George W Bush has branded a ‘dangerous escalation’ by Russia and ruled out military intervention on behalf of Georgia.
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RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - A top negotiator said on Sunday Palestinians may demand to become part of a binational state with Israel, if the Jewish state continued to reject the borders they propose for a separate country.
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Dozens of pro-Georgian protesters gathered outside the Russian Embassy in west
London, some breaking down in tears.
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Explosions at a propane facility forced thousands of people to evacuate early Sunday, and witnesses described the sky lighting …
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His ties to China run deep. Former president George H.W. Bush was chief of the U.S. Liaison Office in Beijing in the mid-1970s, …
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A full-scale evacuation of the Georgian city of has Gori started as fears rose
that Russia would soon advance its troops across the border from the
breakaway republic of South Ossetia into the main body of Georgia itself.
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Israeli border guards have put into practice a new method to scatter demonstrators, local daily Yedioth Ahronoth reported Sunday on its web site.
The dispersing apparatus, named “skunk,” is operated by two manual systems and one water-spraying machine, which spurts foul-smelling liquid, said the report, adding that the border guard tested its effectivity in the last demonstration in the West Bank village of Naalin.
Following the test, the border guard reported that the demonstrat …
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Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika arrived in Tehran on Sunday for a three-day visit, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Bouteflika was received at the airport by Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and some other officials.
Bouteflika is accompanied by five cabinet members and a political-economic delegation, including the foreign, energy, higher education, housing and health ministers, the report added.
He is scheduled to meet with Iranian Supreme lead …
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An armed attack was waged on a vehicle carrying a group of Turkish journalists in the self-claimed independent region of South Ossetia, the semi-official Anatolia news agency reported on Sunday.
Turkish officials were quoted as saying that journalist Recep Ozturk was wounded, while others were not injured in the attack.
Ozturk and the other journalists were taken to a hospital in Tskhinvali, said the officials.
Meanwhile, a crisis desk has been set up in the Turkish forei …
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