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President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

An internal U.N. investigation has found evidence that some Indian peacekeepers may have engaged in "sexual exploitation and abuse" in Congo, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Tuesday.
In a statement issued by his spokeswoman's office, Ban said he was "deeply troubled" by the outcome of the U.N. investigation and said "disciplinary action to the maximum degree permitted by Indian law...

A Philadelphia veterans hospital says it may have given insufficient radiation treatment to more than 100 prostate-cancer patients.
The Philadelphia VA Medical Center says it's reviewing records of 114 cancer patients who may have received the wrong dosages during the past six years.
Hospital spokeswoman Fern Billet says two patients have since died. She says it's not clear if the feared error played...

The government owns hundreds of underground fuel tanks — many designed for emergencies back in the Cold War — that need to be inspected for leaks of hazardous substances that could be making local water undrinkable.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has known since at least the 1990s that tanks under its...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

Pakistan's ruling coalition said on Tuesday the army would not intervene to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whom the government says it will impeach for years of alleged misrule.
Musharraf has been at the centre of a political crisis since early last year. The threat to his presidency has raised fears...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's third trip to court in a week turned into a victory Tuesday when a judge threw out prosecutors' claim that a visit with his sister violated the terms of his bail in an assault case.
Judge Ronald Giles agreed with the mayor's attorneys that a no-contact order didn't include...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

Pakistan's ruling coalition said on Tuesday the army would not intervene to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whom the government says it will impeach for years of alleged misrule.
Musharraf has been at the centre of a political crisis since early last year. The threat to his presidency has raised fears...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's third trip to court in a week turned into a victory Tuesday when a judge threw out prosecutors' claim that a visit with his sister violated the terms of his bail in an assault case.
Judge Ronald Giles agreed with the mayor's attorneys that a no-contact order didn't include...

President Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday ordered a halt to Russia's military onslaught against Georgia, but the Tbilisi government reported new attacks and there was a wary international response.
"The aggressor has been punished and suffered significant losses," Medvedev said in...

Pakistan's ruling coalition said on Tuesday the army would not intervene to support embattled President Pervez Musharraf, whom the government says it will impeach for years of alleged misrule.
Musharraf has been at the centre of a political crisis since early last year. The threat to his presidency has raised fears...

Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's third trip to court in a week turned into a victory Tuesday when a judge threw out prosecutors' claim that a visit with his sister violated the terms of his bail in an assault case.
Judge Ronald Giles agreed with the mayor's attorneys that a no-contact order didn't include...