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    • US, Poland sign missile defense deal 3 min ago

      Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski have signed a deal that will put an American missile defense base in Poland.
      The agreement has infuriated Russia, which sees the U.S. missile defense system as a threat.

    • Food aid sent in to suffering Georgian area 28 min ago

      A convoy of badly needed food aid for beleaguered Georgians rumbled through a Russian checkpoint Wednesday, waved through by soldiers who themselves showed no signs of fulfilling their president's promise of a pullback within two days.

    • Sarkozy visits Kabul after French soldiers killed 1 hr ago

      French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited a military chapel in Kabul on Wednesday where the bodies of 10 French soldiers killed in battle lay before they were to be flown home.

    • Pirates seize Malaysian tanker off Somalia's coast 1 hr ago

      Armed pirates seized a Malaysian palm oil tanker with 39 crew off the coast of Somalia - the fourth hijacking in a month, a global maritime watchdog said Wednesday.

    • Post-Olympic clamp on Muslim Xinjiang possible 2 hrs ago

      As police with riot clubs patrolled nearby, a merchant whispered that he feared a sweeping crackdown in China's northwestern Muslim region once the Olympic spotlight fades.

    • Darfur tribal chiefs throw in with al-Bashir 2 hrs ago

      When Sudan's president landed in this remote western Darfur town, he was warmly greeted by a man who by all logic should be his mortal enemy - a tribal chief the Sudanese leader is charged with trying to exterminate.

    • Glitter held at Thai airport after prison release 2 hrs ago

      British glam rocker Gary Glitter, who served nearly three years in a Vietnamese prison for molesting children, refused to board airplanes out of Thailand on Wednesday after being denied entry into the country, a senior immigration official said.

    • NATO pulls its punches on penalty against Russia 11 hrs ago

      NATO pulled its punches against Russia on Tuesday, suspending formal contacts as punishment for the Georgia invasion but bucking U.S. pressure for more severe penalties.
      The Russian ambassador to NATO played down the impact of the emergency meeting of the Western alliance.

    • Bomber kills 43 at Algerian police academy 13 hrs ago

      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 jolt this energy-rich U.S. ally since the 1990s.

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