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21-08 CNN -World Oil price jumps above $121 a barrel Read full story for latest details.
21-08 CNN -World Russia says troops will withdraw by Friday Russian forces in Georgia will withdraw to a buffer zone by Friday evening -- two weeks after the initial invasion -- according to the deputy chief of staff of Russia's armed forces.
21-08 CNN -World Suicide attack kills dozens in Pakistan Two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the gates of a military arms factory in Pakistan on Thursday, killing 16 and wounding 40, police said.
21-08 CNN -World Pirates hijack 2 ships off Somalia Pirates hijacked two ships off the coast of Somalia on Thursday, the latest of several attacks that have generated international concern.
21-08 CNN -World 3 soldiers, 30 militants killed in Afghanistan Three soldiers in the NATO-led force and 30 militants were killed Wednesday in Afghanistan.
21-08 CNN -World Spain mourns as air disaster probe continues Spain has declared three days of mourning as investigators continued probing what caused a passenger jet to crash on takeoff in Madrid, killing 153 people.
21-08 CNN -World Rice arrives in Iraq to discuss U.S. troop deal U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrived in Baghdad Thursday on an unannounced trip to Iraq, according to reporters traveling with her.
21-08 CNN -World UK's Brown in Kabul for Karzai meeting Read full story for latest details.
21-08 CNN -World Shamed rocker Gary Glitter returns to Thailand Hong Kong customs officials refused entry Thursday to British glam rocker Gary Glitter, making the Chinese territory the second place to turn away the convicted child molester.
21-08 CNN -World Monsoons kill dozens in northern India Heavy monsoon rains lashed northern India -- triggering floods, destroying mud huts and killing at least 74 people, officials said Thursday.
20-08 CNN -World Typhoon Nuri kills 7 in Philippines Read full story for latest details.
20-08 CNN -World U.S. official: Draft for Iraq pullout reached U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed to a preliminary draft of an agreement on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said.
20-08 CNN -World U.S. ships wait to deliver aid to Georgia The first U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid for Georgia is headed to the Black Sea after loading the supplies from a port in Crete on Wednesday, according to U.S. Navy officials.
20-08 CNN -World Plane crashes in Madrid, dozens dead A plane belonging to Spanish national airways SpanAir went off the runway and crashed at Madrid's Barajas Airport on Wednesday, and there are believed to be injuries, an airport official said.
20-08 CNN -World Poland signs missile shield deal with U.S. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Poland's foreign minister Wednesday signed a formal agreement to base U.S. ballistic missile interceptors in the country.
20-08 CNN -World Lebanon prime minister visits Iraq Lebanon's prime minister paid a visit to Iraq on Wednesday -- the first such visit by a Lebanese leader in the post-Saddam Hussein era -- and he and his Iraqi counterpart discussed issues including oil exports and investment.
20-08 CNN -World Shamed star Glitter in airport standoff British glam rocker Gary Glitter was Wednesday engaged in a standoff with Thai authorities after he refused to board a plane to England after arriving from Vietnam where he was spent three years in jail for child molestation.
20-08 CNN -World Former Chinese leader Hua Guofeng dies Read full story for latest details.
20-08 CNN -World Sarkozy visits French troops in Afghanistan French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited French troops outside the Afghan capital on Wednesday as they mourned the deaths of 10 soldiers killed in fighting with Islamic militants.
20-08 CNN -World 11 dead as car bombs hit Algerian town Two car bombings in eastern Algeria killed at least 11 people Wednesday -- a day after a blast near a military school in a neighboring region claimed 43 lives.
20-08 CNN -World NATO, Russia in war of words over Georgia NATO and Russia remain at loggerheads as senior figures within the military alliance accuse Moscow of failing to honor the full terms of the cease-fire agreement, brokered by the European Union to end the fighting in Georgia.
20-08 CNN -World Taliban says it bombed Pakistan hospital The Islamic militant movement, the Taliban, claimed responsibility for an explosion at a hospital in northwestern Pakistan and warned of more attacks unless the military halts its offensive against insurgents in the region, state media reported.
20-08 CNN -World Fay looks like it could be a 'boomerang storm' At least seven possible tornadoes were reported Tuesday in eastern Florida as Tropical Storm Fay battered parts of the state with high winds and heavy rain, the National Hurricane Center said.
20-08 CNN -World Sarkozy to visit troops in Afghanistan French President Nicholas Sarkozy was expected in Afghanistan hours after fighting near the capital that left 10 French soldiers dead.
20-08 CNN -World Thai authorities hold rocker Glitter Thai authorities detained British rock star Gary Glitter at an airport in Bangkok shortly after he was freed from a Vietnamese prison, having served nearly three years there for child molestation.
19-08 CNN -World Bolivians strike for share of natural gas profits Five of Bolivia's nine states staged a civic strike Tuesday, protesting against President Evo Morales and demanding a larger share of the country's natural gas revenues.
19-08 CNN -World Typhoon Nuri batters northern Philippines Read full story for latest details.
19-08 CNN -World Karadzic alleges war crime judge biased Read full story for latest details.
19-08 CNN -World Blaze engulfs Egyptian parliament Read full story for latest details.
19-08 CNN -World Zambia's president dies in French hospital Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris, France, nearly two months after suffering a stroke, a Zambian official told CNN.
19-08 CNN -World 43 dead in Algerian suicide bombing An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.
19-08 CNN -World 10 French soldiers die in Afghan fighting U.S. and Afghan forces repelled an attack by several suicide bombers on a U.S. base in southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.
19-08 CNN -World Pakistan hospital bomb kills 23 A bomb blast at a hospital in northwest Pakistan killed at least 23 people Tuesday, authorities said. Another 15 to 20 were injured.
19-08 CNN -World Zimbabwe inflation hits 11,200,000 percent Zimbabwe's inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 million percent, the highest in the world, according to the country's Central Statistical Office.
19-08 CNN -World Coalition charts Pakistan's future Leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition were meeting Tuesday to discuss who will replace President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned Monday.
19-08 CNN -World NATO to meet over Russia-Georgia crisis Foreign ministers from NATO members are gathering in Belgium for a Tuesday emergency meeting over the crisis between Russia and Georgia.
19-08 CNN -World Vietnam releases Gary Glitter from prison Read full story for latest details.
19-08 CNN -World Argentina grants gay couples partner pensions In a nationwide measure, Argentina has granted gay couples the right to collect the pensions of their dead partners.
18-08 CNN -World Typhoon Nuri on path to hit Philippines Read full story for latest details.
18-08 CNN -World Two men charged in honeymoon killings Read full story for latest details.
18-08 CNN -World Tropical storm hits Florida island Tropical Storm Fay is expected to deliver up to a foot of rain to parts of Cuba, and with it, the possibility of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.
18-08 CNN -World Blackwater defends team in Baghdad shootings Security contractor Blackwater said any guards who acted improperly in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad should be held accountable, but believes its team acted in self-defense, a company spokeswoman said.
18-08 CNN -World Sumo slammed by first drugs scandal Read full story for latest details.
18-08 CNN -World U.S. doubts Iranian rocket test succeeded The Pentagon does not believe an Iranian rocket test over the weekend was successful, despite reports in the official Iranian media saying the Islamic Republic had launched its first vehicle capable of placing a satellite in orbit.
18-08 CNN -World World Food Program worker killed in Somalia The United Nations' World Food Program on Monday expressed its shock at the "senseless and barbaric" killing of an aid worker in southern Somalia.
18-08 CNN -World Big dreams come true for embattled nations Read full story for latest details.
18-08 CNN -World Former Maoist rebel sworn in as Nepal PM A man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency was sworn in Monday as Nepal's new prime minister.
18-08 CNN -World Russia begins Georgia troop 'pull back' Russia says it will begin pulling back its troops from Georgia on Monday, but a Russian lawmaker has compared the situation to the U.S. presence in Iraq.