Suicide bombers kill 59 at Pakistani arms factory (AP)
Russian maestro Gergiev performs in South Ossetia (AP)
Russia blocks Georgia's main port city (AP)
30 militants die in Afghan battle near ambush site (AP)
French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban (AP)
US military frees Iraqi journalist after 26 days (AP) AP - The U.S. military released an Iraqi television cameraman for the Reuters news agency and other news organizations without charges Thursday after 23 days in detention. Actor Jean Reno released from Martinique hospital (AP) AP - French actor Jean Reno has been released from a hospital in the Caribbean island of Martinique after falling ill. South African who threw man to lions out of prison (AP) AP - A white farmer who threw the body of his fired black worker into a lions' pen has been freed on parole after less than three years in prison. Some of the deadliest terror attacks in Pakistan (AP) AP - Some of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan in recent years:
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AP - Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of Iraqi cities by next June on the way to broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011.
AP - Suicide bombers killed 59 people at a huge arms factory Thursday in one of Pakistan's deadliest terror attacks, adding to turmoil from political squabbling that is threatening to tear apart the ruling coalition now that Pervez Musharraf has quit as president.
AP - Surrounded by flickering candles and flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev led a requiem concert Thursday for South Ossetia's war dead in the breakaway region's devastated capital.
AP - Russian forces dug trenches and built fortifications in key areas of Georgia Thursday, but also rolled columns of tanks north toward home, picking and choosing how their nation would comply with the terms of a peace accord.
AP - The U.S.-led coalition said Thursday it had killed more than 30 insurgents in a battle in eastern Afghanistan, fighters an Afghan governor said were responsible for an attack that killed 10 French troops this week. Officials announced the deaths of six NATO soldiers in two attacks.
AP - A French patrol marches up a rocky and dusty Afghan mountain pass. Suddenly, Taliban insurgents open fire from front and back, setting off an hours-long gunfight — the deadliest for allied forces in Afghanistan in more than three years.
