US, Russia anchor military ships in Georgian ports
By SERGEI GRITS and JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press Writers
BATUMI, Georgia (AP) -- A U.S. military ship loaded with aid docked at a southern Georgian port Wednesday, and Russia sent three missile boats to another Georgian port as the standoff es ...
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2 Iraqi officials accused of aiding al-Qaida
By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A university president and a top local official in a restive province north of Baghdad are suspected of giving weapons and government cars to al-Qaida in Iraq insurgents, according to ar ...
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9 killed as violence spreads along Pakistan border
By RIAZ KHAN
Associated Press Writer
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- Suspected militants bombed a bus carrying prisoners in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least nine people, as fighting between security forces and extremists flared acr ...
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Thai protesters defy court order to leave compound
By SUTIN WANNABOVORN
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Thousands of demonstrators, some armed with golf clubs, batons and bamboo sticks, defied a court order to end their occupation of the prime minister's office compound on T ...
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Iraqi forces starting to lead but need US aid
By KIM GAMEL
Associated Press Writer
BAQOUBA, Iraq (AP) -- The Iraqi battalion leader huddled over the map with his American advisers, showing them how he planned to surround a Sunni enclave where al-Qaida militants were believed hiding.
The Ame ...
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Western nations warn Russia to 'change course'
By JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press Writer
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) -- Western leaders warned Russia on Wednesday to "change course," hoping to keep a conflict that already threatens a key nuclear pact and could affect the U.S. meat and poultry industry ...
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Gustav kills 23; New Orleans makes evacuation plan
By JONATHAN M. KATZ
Associated Press Writer
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) -- Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil workers began leaving their rigs and New Orleans ...
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Fewer Marines needed in Iraq's western province
By ROBERT BURNS
AP Military Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Conditions in the western Iraqi province of Anbar, where a brutal insurgency once ruled, have improved so dramatically that the United States is handing over responsibility for security in th ...
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Hijackers of Darfur plane surrender in Libya
By KHALED EL-DEEB
Associated Press Writer
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- Two Sudanese men, armed with handguns and the threat of explosives, stormed the cockpit of the Boeing 737, taking control just minutes into the flight. Passengers said the hijackers r ...
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Combat flares in 3rd area of Pakistan border belt
By STEPHEN GRAHAM
Associated Press Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) -- Pakistani troops drove off a Taliban attack on a fort and pounded another band of militants holed up in a health center, officials said Wednesday as fighting spread to a thi ...
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Libyan official: Hijackers release passengers
By KHALED EL-DEEB
Associated Press Writer
TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) -- The hijackers of a plane that took off from Sudan's Darfur region were releasing passengers Wednesday after landing hours earlier at a remote desert airfield in southern Libya, a civ ...
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US ship carrying aid docks at Georgian port
By SERGEI GRITS AND JIM HEINTZ
Associated Press Writers
BATUMI, Georgia (AP) -- A U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid docked at the Georgian Black Sea port of Batumi on Wednesday, avoiding the port of Poti, which is still controlled by Russ ...
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