| |  Pakistan's presidential favorite under guard
11:17PM CT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Pakistan's presidential front-runner has moved into a tightly guarded government compound over security fears, officials said as a militant campaign against the government led to more violence in the country's volatile northwest. | | |
 Georgia to cut diplomatic ties with Moscow
4:57PM CT
TBILISI, Georgia (AP) - Georgia severed diplomatic ties with Moscow on Friday to protest the presence of Russian troops on its territory. Russia said the move would only make things worse. | | |
 Hurricane Gustav plows through Cayman Islands
10:55PM CT
GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands (AP) - Hurricane Gustav plowed through the Cayman Islands toward Cuba, gathering strength on a journey that could take it to the U.S. Gulf Coast as a fearsome Category-3 storm three years after Hurricane Katrina. | | |
 Karadzic makes defiant stand before UN court
12:09PM CT
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic made a defiant stand before a U.N. court preparing to try him on genocide charges, refusing to enter pleas Friday and branding the tribunal a NATO proxy out to "liquidate" him. | | |
 Thai protest alliance not so happy with democracy
5:30PM CT
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - Thai police fired tear gas at thousands of right-wing protesters besieging their headquarters Friday, while demonstrators outside the capital disrupted air and rail service in a growing campaign to unseat the prime minister. | | |
 Polish PM: nothing to fear over base
4:59PM CT
REDZIKOWO, Poland (AP) - Poland's prime minister sought to reassure worried residents near the site of a planned U.S. missile defense base on Friday, pledging that they and the country would be more secure, despite threats from an angry Russia. | | |
France: No EU sanctions against Russia imminent
4:27PM CT
PARIS (AP) - The European Union is not expected to imposed sanctions on Russia at a summit next week but may name a special envoy to Georgia to ensure that a cease-fire there is observed, officials in Paris and Brussels said Friday. | | |
 Media says Hezbollah hit helicopter by mistake
6:07PM CT
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Hezbollah on Friday handed over a man suspected of firing on a Lebanese army helicopter a day earlier that killed a navigator, the militant group said. | | |
 Aid agencies say they can work again in Zimbabwe
7:57PM CT
HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) - Power-sharing talks over a unity government resumed Friday as President Robert Mugabe's government made good on a promise to allow aid agencies to resume operations in economically shattered Zimbabwe. | | |
 Musharraf eyes comfy retirement home
1:20PM CT
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) - Predictions that Pervez Musharraf will have to flee Pakistan to escape treason charges have died along with the coalition that drove him from the presidency. | | |
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