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In retaliation for Pakistan's aggressive air assault on the tribal region this week, the Taliban declared "open war" and bombed a minibus Tuesday carrying 18 Pakistani air-force personnel on a major road in Peshawar.

U.S. President George W. Bush expressed his concern over Russian military operations in Georgia which he said is threatening to escalate the conflict in the north Caucasus republic.

A draft resolution on Georgia will be shortly distributed among the members of the U.N. Security Council, a representative of the French delegation said after a session of the Security Council late on Monday.

Iran's president said on Monday that the United States now realizes that Iran's nuclear program cannot be halted, and has no alternative to dialogue.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai has suggested a turn around in strategy on the war on terror. He has warned his Western allies that they will have to start targeting extremists in Pakistan.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev will chair an emergency meeting of the national Security Council in the next few hours to discuss the situation in Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia.

Radovan Karadzic will aim to prove at the Hague tribunal that no genocide took place in Srebrenica, and that fatality figures were deliberately exaggerated, a Serbian paper said on Thursday.

Deputy Director General, Head of the Department of Safeguards of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Olli Heinonen will arrive in the Iranian capital on Thursday to discuss prospects for cooperation between Iran and the IAEA.

Taliban militants beheaded two menand shot dead a third in a Pakistani tribal area bordering Afghanistan after accusing them of spying on the rebels, officials and witnesses said Friday.

American intelligence agencies have concluded that members of Pakistan’s powerful spy service helped plan the deadly July 7 bombing of India’s embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, according to United States government officials.