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The departure of Pakistan's president, Gen. Pervez Musharraf, will aid the fight against terrorism, according to Husain Haqqani, Pakistan's ambassador to the United States. "Unfortunately, there was no chemistry between Gen. Musharraf and President Karzai," Haqqani said. But NATO troops will still be kept out of Pakistan, he said.

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The Canadian national junior hockey team is in need of a new head coach. Benoit Groulx has left the position after apparently taking a job in the American Hockey League, a source told The Canadian Press on Wednesday. The national team must n...

Movements in the world of hockey Wednesday: National Hockey League DETROIT RED WINGS-Signed RW Aaron Downey to a one-year contract. NEW YORK ISLANDERS-Promoted Chris Dey to president. American Hockey League SYRACUSE CRUNCH-Na...

IFC Films has acquired North American rights to the John Leguizamo-toplined drama "Where God Left His Shoes" from Paul Allen's Vulcan Prods.

On patrol with Russian troops, TIME photographer Yuri Kozyrev witnesses signs of ethnic hostility in the region

Tropical Storm Fay lumbered offshore for what was likely to be a brief stay over the Atlantic Ocean's energizing waters after flooding hundreds of homes, trapping residents and leaving much of Florida a soggy mess

At least 20 people are killed in twin suicide bombings outside a munitions factory in the Pakistani town of Wah, police say.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy presides over a ceremony to honour 10 French soldiers killed in Afghanistan.

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Reuters - The U.S. military freed a Reuters television cameraman on Thursday after holding him for three weeks in Iraq without charges.

AP - The Chinese and the wretched Beijing weather were no match for Misty May-Treanor and "Six Feet of Sunshine." May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh won their second consecutive gold medal in beach volleyball Thursday, playing through a steady and sometimes driving rain to beat China in straight sets and extend their winning streak to 108 matches in a row.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice flew into Baghdad on for discussions with Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and other top Iraqi officials, hoping to iron out

] Armed pirates hijacked a Japanese-operated tanker and an Iranian ship off Somalia's coast Thursday, the latest in a series of attacks that have sent jitters among seafarers in an area known for its lawlessness

U.S.-led coalition troops battled a group of militants in eastern Afghanistan, killing over 30 insurgents, while three NATO soldiers were killed in a roadside blast elsewhere, officials said Thursday

Police special forces with orders to kill headed into the hinterlands of the southern Philippines on Wednesday, seeking Muslim rebels responsible for shooting and hacking 37 people to death in a brutal rampage that has left peace prospects in tatters.

Reuters - The United States and Iraq are close to a deal extending the presence of U.S. troops beyond 2008, but any timetable for their withdrawal must be "feasible," U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Thursday.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Baghdad to discuss the future of American forces deployed in Iraq.

Russian forces blocked the only land entrance to Georgia's main port city

Spain began three days of mourning for the 153 people who died when a jetliner crashed shortly after takeoff in the nation's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years