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  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin praised what he called the "common sense" shown by the European Union in its mild response to Russia's conflict with ex-Soviet Georgia.(AFP/Pool/Alexey Druzhinin)
    EU showed 'common sense' on Georgia crisis: Putin AFP - Tue Sep 2, 10:59 AM ET

    MOSCOW (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Tuesday praised what he called the "common sense" shown by the European Union in its mild response to Russia's conflict with ex-Soviet Georgia.

  • A South Ossetian boy holds a toy machinegun as he stands near Russian soldiers in Tskhinvali. Russia's EU envoy has confirmed that Moscow will soon withdraw hundreds of troops from Georgia -- a day after the European Union froze partnership talks until the forces pulled out.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)
    Russian troops withdrawal from Georgia likely soon: envoy AFP - Tue Sep 2, 10:46 AM ET

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - Russia's EU envoy affirmed Tuesday that Moscow would soon withdraw hundreds of troops from Georgia, a day after the European Union froze partnership talks until the forces pulled out.

  • Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic attends a hearing at the United Nations tribunal in The Hague, August 29, 2008. REUTERS/Valerie Kuypers/Pool
    Serb nationalists block deal with European Union AP - Tue Sep 2, 9:48 AM ET

    BELGRADE, Serbia - Serb nationalists are blocking the parliamentary ratification of a pre-membership deal with the European Union over the arrest of war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic.

  • France's President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks during a press conference after an emergency summit of European Union leaders on the crisis in Georgia at the European Council headquarters in Brussels. Russia has hit out at EU leaders for freezing strategic talks over the Georgia crisis, but Moscow is also relieved that no economic sanctions were ordered by the EU.(AFP/Gerard Cerles)
    EU Talks Tough on Russia Time.com - Tue Sep 2, 9:25 AM ET

    EU leaders condemn Moscow's actions in Georgia, but can't agree on a stronger response to their biggest energy supplier

  • U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney shakes hands with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi, September 4, 2008. (Irakli Gedenidze/Pool/Reuters)
    Putin vows 'an answer' to NATO ships near Georgia AP - Tue Sep 2, 3:36 PM ET

    MOSCOW - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia will respond calmly to an increase in NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer."

  • A security guard at the UN offices in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo. A UN spokesman has said that a plane carrying humanitarian aid with 17 people on board crashed into a mountain near Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
    Aid plane crashes into mountain in DRCongo: UN AFP - Tue Sep 2, 6:37 AM ET

    KINSHASA (AFP) - A plane carrying humanitarian aid with 17 people on board crashed into a mountain near Bukavu, in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a United Nations source said Tuesday.

  • Zimbabwe opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai attends a news conference in Kenya's capital Nairobi August 21, 2008. (Finbarr O'Reilly/Reuters)
    African Union wants Zimbabwe crisis deal now Reuters - Tue Sep 2, 6:09 AM ET

    DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - African Union chair Tanzania wants to see a 50-50 power-sharing deal agreed for Zimbabwe immediately to stem a growing economic crisis, Tanzania's foreign minister said on Tuesday.

  • A United Nations guard looks out of the gates of UN Divisional headquarters in Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo, in 2007. A small plane believed to be carrying United Nations staffers did not land as scheduled Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo and officials were unsure of its whereabouts, UN sources said.(AFP/File/Don Emmert)
    Plane believed to be carrying UN staffers missing in DRC: sources AFP - Mon Sep 1, 8:32 PM ET

    KINSHASA (AFP) - A small plane believed to be carrying United Nations staffers did not land as scheduled Monday in the Democratic Republic of Congo and officials were unsure of its whereabouts, UN sources said.

  • Vice President Dick Cheney arrives for a meeting with Georgia's President Mikheil Saakashvili in Tbilisi September 4, 2008. (Irakli Gedenidze/Pool/Reuters)
    US welcomes Europeans in Russia-Georgia dispute AP - Mon Sep 1, 6:57 PM ET

    WASHINGTON - The United States welcomed Europe's involvement in the Russia-Georgia dispute as laid out Monday in decisions by European Union leaders in an extraordinary summit meeting at Brussels.

  • Russian tanks rumble through Tskhinvali in August 2008. Russia has hit out at EU leaders for freezing strategic talks over the Georgia crisis, but Moscow was also relieved that no economic sanctions were ordered by the EU.(AFP/File/Viktor Drachev)
    EU leaders suspend Russian talks until troops withdraw AFP - Mon Sep 1, 5:07 PM ET

    BRUSSELS (AFP) - EU leaders on Monday froze strategic partnership talks with Moscow until Russian troops withdraw from Georgia, but shied away from sanctions at an emergency summit.

  • Paraguay's President Fernando Lugo, left, shakes hands with Taiwan's President Ma Ying-jeou after his inauguration ceremony in Asuncion, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Leftist ex-bishop Fernando Lugo became Paraguay's president on Friday, ending six decades of one-party rule in a key step in the poor South American nation's democratic transformation. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
    Paraguay to reverse support for Taiwan at UN AP - Mon Sep 1, 1:05 PM ET

    ASUNCION, Paraguay - Paraguay will reverse its historic support for Taiwan at the upcoming United Nations General Assembly, and also is reconsidering its relations with communist regimes.

  • People greet Russian soldiers as they leave South Ossetia at the North-South Ossetia border on August 31. Britain has called on the European Union to suspend partnership negotiations with Russia due to its military action in Georgia, the prime minister's spokesman said.(AFP/Kazbek Basayev)
    Britain calls on EU to suspend negotiations with Russia AFP - Mon Sep 1, 7:29 AM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Britain on Monday called on the European Union to suspend partnership negotiations with Russia due to its military action in Georgia, the prime minister's spokesman said.

  • People shout and wave Georgian flags as they protest in front of Russia's peacekeepers' check point outside Georgian city of Poti, September 1, 2008. (Vasily Fedosenko/Reuters)
    EU struggles for unity on Russia Reuters - Mon Sep 1, 7:15 AM ET

    BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union countries faced a struggle to keep a united front on Russia at an emergency summit on Monday, with splits emerging over whether to punish Moscow for its intervention in Georgia.

  • Prime Minister Gordon Brown, seen here on Ausuts 24, 2008, warned Sunday that the West would not be held to ransom by Russia and threatened a "root and branch" review of relations between the EU and the Kremlin.(AFP/File/Gabriel Bouys)
    Brown warns West will not be held to ransom by Russia AFP - Sat Aug 30, 7:43 PM ET

    LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned Sunday that the West would not be held to ransom by Russia and threatened a "root and branch" review of relations between the EU and the Kremlin.

  • An Afghan security police officer stands guard near the site of a suicide attack on the outskirts of Kabul, Afghanistan, Saturday, Aug. 30, 2008. A suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy west of the Afghan capital Saturday, but no troops or civilians were killed, a provincial police chief said. (AP Photo/Musadeq Sadeq)
    Joint Afghan-US-UN probe launched into deadly raid AP - Sat Aug 30, 1:04 PM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan - The U.S.-led coalition, Afghan government and the United Nations will launch a joint probe into last week's deadly raid in a village in the country's west, a top NATO official said Saturday.

  • A Sudanese woman wears a robe with the image of St. Bakhita at the St. Bakhita parish church in Jeberona displacement camp on the outskirts of Khartoum August 24, 2008. Josephine Bakhita, a former slave who died in 1947, has risen from obscurity to become the first saint from Darfur in western Sudan, a region convulsed by war for the past five years. Picture taken August 24, 2008. To match feature SUDAN-SAINT/ REUTERS/Andrew Heavens (SUDAN)
    Many months needed to deploy Darfur peacekeepers AP - Fri Aug 29, 8:30 PM ET

    UNITED NATIONS - Deploying all 26,000 members of a peacekeeping force in conflict-wracked Darfur will take many more months because of growing insecurity and logistical difficulties, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a report circulated Friday.

  • Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin heads a meeting in Moscow on August 25, 2008. Putin on Friday called on the EU to be "truly objective" when the bloc gathers for an emergency summit next week over the conflict in Georgia, German media reported.(AFP/POOL/File/Alexey Nikolsky)
    Putin calls on EU to be 'objective' at emergency summit: report AFP - Fri Aug 29, 5:40 PM ET

    BERLIN (AFP) - Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin on Friday called on the EU to be "truly objective" when the bloc gathers for an emergency summit next week over the conflict in Georgia, German media reported.

  • France: No EU sanctions against Russia imminent AP - Fri Aug 29, 5:27 PM ET

    PARIS - The European Union is not expected to imposed sanctions on Russia at a summit next week but may name a special envoy to Georgia to ensure that a cease-fire there is observed, officials in Paris and Brussels said Friday.

  • A diplomat is seen at the World Trade Organization (WTO) headquarters in Geneva. The United States is free to "insist" that the World Trade Organization hear a dispute over high-technology import duties after the European Union blocked its request for WTO arbitration.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)
    US free to 'insist' WTO hear high-tech dispute with EU: official AFP - Fri Aug 29, 4:31 PM ET

    WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is free to "insist" that the World Trade Organization hear a dispute over high-technology import duties after the European Union blocked its request for WTO arbitration.

  • U.N. court overturns Rwandan's genocide conviction Reuters - Fri Aug 29, 8:51 AM ET

    DAR ES SALAAM (Reuters) - A United Nations court trying the architects of Rwanda's 1994 genocide on Friday reversed the genocide conviction and 25-year jail sentence of a former army lieutenant colonel, the court said.

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