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By Martin Roberts MADRID (Reuters) - Grieving relatives on Thursday tried to identify charred bodies from the wreckage of a Spanish jet, which officials said had been forced to abort a take-off earlier in the day at Madrid...
By Aydar Buribaev and Margarita Antidze MOSCOW/TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia began pulling tanks and armor back over its frontier, pledging all forces would quit Georgia's heartland by Friday night, but Tbilisi said Moscow was...
By Sutin Wannabovorn, Associated Press BANGKOK, Thailand — Disgraced rocker Gary Glitter arrived back in Bangkok on Thursday after Hong Kong denied him entry, continuing a two-day odyssey that began when he was released from a...
BAGHDAD, Aug. 21 -- Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday that Iraq and the United States have reached preliminary agreement on a pact to govern the future use of U.S. forces in the war-torn country, and said he...
Tropical Storm Fay was lumbering offshore for what was likely to be a brief stay over the Atlantic Ocean's energizing waters. Forecasters expect the storm to complete its zig-zag course by hitting the coast for a third time in...
U.K.'s Brown Makes Surprise Visit KABUL, Afghanistan -- U.S.-led coalition troops killed more than 30 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan, officials said Thursday, as U.K. Prime Minister Gordon Brown made an...
Japan's trade surplus shrank sharply in July on higher oil and commodities prices, figures showed Thursday, but robust exports to the rest of Asia, Russia, Australia and the Mideast are helping reduce Japan's dependance on a...
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Assassinated Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto's widower emerged on Thursday as a likely candidate to become the next president as a split loomed in the ruling coalition led by his party. Investors...
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The United States and Iraq are close to a deal extending the presence of U.S. troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be "feasible", U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on...
