International News

Iraq's envoy to Jordan says Baghdad will send planes and buses to bring home 520 Iraqis who fled to Jordan after the US-led invasion in 2003.

The sound of bagpipes has fallen victim to frosty relations between the West and Russia. British officials have banned three military bands from attending a musical parade in Moscow.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says she is excited about her landmark trip to Libya, when she will become the highest-ranking American official to visit the North African country in more than a half-century.

Top nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan were to converge in Beijing on Friday to discuss the worsening impasse over North Korea's nuclear programs.

Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled.

Plans call for the Abu Ghraib prison to be ready for new inmates in about a year.

Pakistani intelligence officials say a missile strike is suspected in a blast that killed four people in a tribal region near Afghanistan.

A state-owned newspaper says Robert Mugabe will name his own Cabinet if opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai hasn't signed a deal by tomorrow.

Afghanistan's president is vowing to punish those responsible for a deadly raid on a village by American and Afghan commandos.

Vice President Dick Cheney has condemned Russia for what he says is an "illegitimate, unilateral attempt" to change Georgia's borders by force.