POTI, Georgia (AP) — Russia took the first steps toward a troop pullback from Georgia on Tuesday but at the same time paraded blindfolded and bound Georgian prisoners on armored vehicles and seized fo » Full Story

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — 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 jo » Full Story

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s largest Sunni party accused government security forces of sectarian bias Tuesday after soldiers arrested a Sunni university president and a Sunni provincial council member northe » Full Story

SUROBI, Afghanistan (AP) — Insurgents mounted two of the biggest attacks in years on Western forces in Afghanistan, killing 10 French soldiers in a mountain ambush and then sending a squad of suicide » Full Story

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — Just a day after Pervez Musharraf’s resignation, Pakistan’s governing coalition fell into wrangling Tuesday over restoring the judges he fired, exposing troublesome division » Full Story

PARIS (AP) — The French president’s office says Zambia’s President Levy Mwanawasa has died. He was 59. » Full Story

BEIJING (AP) — Martial arts student Cheng Jianghua only saw the army barracks he stayed in and the stadium where he performed at the spectacular Olympics opening ceremony. » Full Story

BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) — British glam rocker Gary Glitter was refused entry into Thailand, officials said Wednesday, a day after the convicted child molester was freed by Vietnam following nearly thre » Full Story

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) _ Pervez Musharraf resigned Monday as the president of Pakistan, avoiding a power struggle with rivals vowing to impeach him that would have deepened the country's political c » Full Story

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) _ Despite the massive shifts in Pakistan's political landscape, the new government's approach to dealing with Islamic extremists likely will follow the same lines it has since » Full Story