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Pakistani security officials examine the site of suicide bombing at a gate of Pakistan's ordinance factory in Wah, a garrison city about 35 kilometers (20 miles) west of the capital Islamabad, Pakistan on Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Twin suicide bombings at a massive weapons factory near Pakistan's capital left at least 46 people dead Thursday, dashing hopes for an end to turmoil following Pervez Musharraf's ouster as president. (AP Photo)

Suicide bombers kill 67 at Pakistani arms factory

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - Suicide bombers killed 67 people at Pakistan's largest arms factory Thursday in one of the country'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.

  • A U.S. Army soldier from Hammer Company, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment stands guard near two suspected terrorists in Nahr al-Imam, about 90 kilometers (60 miles) north of Baghdad in Iraq's volatile Diyala province on Wednesday, July 30, 2008. Twenty men were detained in the pre-dawn sweep. Nearly 50,000 Iraqi police and soldiers were involved in a U.S.-backed operation against al-Qaida in Iraq in one of its last major strongholds near the capital, a senior provincial official said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo)
    US, Iraq close in on deal for pullout of US troops 2 hours, 49 minutes ago

    BAGHDAD - Iraq and the U.S. pushed close to a deal Thursday setting a course for American combat troops to pull out of major Iraqi cities by next June, with a broader withdrawal from the long and costly war by 2011.

  • Russain soldiers stand guard as Georgian protester waves with Georgian flag near the town of Igoeti, 50 kms of Tbilisi,Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. Georgian activists got into a tense argument with Russian soldiers over the military conflict with Georgia as they held a rally in the town outside the strategic city of Gori. ( AP Photo /Sergei Grits)
    Russians dig in but still promise Georgia pullout 1 hour, 20 minutes ago

    GORI, Georgia - Russian forces lingered deep in Georgia on Thursday, digging trenches and setting up mortars a day before Kremlin officials promised to complete a troop withdrawal from this former Soviet republic.

  • In this handout photo released by NSW Parks and Wildlife, a lost humpback whale calf swims around the Pittwater, north of Sydney Harbour Wednesday, Aug 20, 2008. The 1- to 2-month-old calf was first sighted Sunday in waters off north Sydney, and on Monday tried to suckle from a yacht, which it would not leave. (AP Photo/NSW Parks and Wildlife)
    Injured lost baby whale euthanized in Australia Thu Aug 21, 8:46 PM ET

    SYDNEY, Australia - An injured and abandoned baby humpback whale was euthanized by wildlife officials Friday after veterinarians determined it was too weak to survive on its own.

  • Renowned Russian conductor Valery Gergiev, centre, is seen before a concert in Tskhinvali, Georgia's breakaway province of South Ossetia, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. In front of a half-destroyed government building, on a plaza flanked by armored personnel carriers, Russian conductor Valery Gergiev who is Ossetian, led a requiem Thursday for South Ossetia's victims of war. (AP Photogia/Dmitry Lovetsky)
    Russian maestro Gergiev performs in South Ossetia Thu Aug 21, 5:26 PM ET

    TSKHINVALI, Georgia - 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.

  • Coffins of French soldiers killed in Afghanistan are carried during a funeral ceremony at Les Invalides, in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 injured in a fierce Taliban ambush and firefight in mountains about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Kabul on Monday. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool)
    30 militants die in Afghan battle near ambush site Thu Aug 21, 12:23 PM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan - 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.

  • Relatives of soldiers killed in Afghanistan, weep in front of the coffins during a funeral ceremony at Les Invalides, in Paris, Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008. 10 French soldiers were killed and 21 injured in a fierce Taliban ambush and firefight in mountains about 30 miles (50 kilometers) east of Kabul on Monday. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon)
    French deaths in Afghanistan show rising Taliban Thu Aug 21, 5:31 PM ET

    PARIS - 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.

  • UK loses prisoner data in latest computer stumble Thu Aug 21, 7:13 PM ET

    LONDON - In another embarrassing stumble with computerized data, Britain's government confirmed Thursday that a contractor lost a memory device containing information on every prison inmate in England and Wales.

  • Ruwaida al-Habis, right, sits next to her two injured brothers Muhammad, center, and Al-Hassan at a Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. When Ruwaida al-Habis' father and two brothers were burned in a house fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers – getting behind the family car's wheel to get them to a clinic fast. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
    Saudi ban on woman drivers may be eroding Thu Aug 21, 2:18 PM ET

    RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - When Ruwaida al-Habis' father and two brothers were badly burned in a fire, she had no choice but to break Saudi Arabia's ban on women drivers to get them to a clinic.

  • Relatives of victims of the Barajas airport crash prepare to leave for Madrid's IFEMA fairgrounds where the remains of the dead are being kept, August 21, 2008. A Spanish jet heading for the Canary Islands crashed on takeoff and burst into flames at Madrid airport on Wednesday, killing 153 of the people on board, the government said. REUTERS/Susana Vera (SPAIN)
    Bodies identified from plane crash in Spain Thu Aug 21, 3:58 PM ET

    MADRID, Spain - A gauge indicating that overheated air was entering a Spanair jetliner forced pilots to abandon a takeoff about an hour before the plane crashed in flames, but airline officials refused to speculate Thursday on the cause of the accident that killed 153 people.

  • Plain clothed security officers detain Associated Press photographer Ng Han Guan, center, after pro-Tibet protesters held a demonstration opposite the National Stadium, where Olympic athletics competition had just finished, early Thursday July 21, 2008 in Beijing. Swarms of plainclothes police took away four foreign activists protesting Chinese rule over Tibet - the latest in a series of such demonstrations during the Olympics. Ng, and one other AP photographer were roughed up by the security officers, forced into cars and taken to a nearby building where they questioned before being released. (AP Photo/Greg Baker)
    Beijing police grab foreign and Chinese activists Thu Aug 21, 11:50 AM ET

    BEIJING - Police descended on a group of foreign pro-Tibet activists and some disgruntled business owners from Hong Kong on Thursday, taking both groups away minutes after they displayed protest signs in central Beijing.

  • A Russian APC heads a convoy leaving the key port of Poti, in Western Georgia, after conducting an operation there. The White House on Thursday demanded that Moscow withdraw its forces "now" from Georgia and warned there can be no Russia-NATO military cooperation until the volatile crisis is over.(AFP/Louisa Gouliamaki)
    NATO: Russia halts military cooperation Thu Aug 21, 1:47 PM ET

    BRUSSELS, Belgium - Russia has halted all military cooperation with NATO, the Western alliance said Thursday, in the latest sign of East-West tension over the invasion of Georgia.

  • Young Christian missionaries visit the Olympic green outside the National stadium, also known as 'Bird's nest' in Beijing , China, Wednesday, Aug.20, 2008. Nevermind China's ban on foreign missionaries. As the Olympics end, Christian groups are calling their quiet evangelizing throughout the country during the games a success.Attracted by the image of 1.3 billion people ruled by ahteist, the groups prepared for years for what the Southern Baptists once called 'a spiritual harvest unlike any other'.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
    Foreign missionaries defy ban during Olympics Thu Aug 21, 1:54 PM ET

    BEIJING - Christian groups who flouted a Chinese ban on foreign missionaries are calling their underground evangelizing during the Olympic Games a success.

  • Gaza travellers hit by passport shortage Thu Aug 21, 8:09 AM ET

    GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Gaza's 1.4 million Palestinians, already largely confined to their narrow strip of land by Israeli and Egyptian border closures, face a new travel restriction: The Hamas administration has run out of passports.

  • Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, right, speaks as Israel's Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni listens during a cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Sunday, Aug. 17, 2008. Israel has approved the release of about 200 Palestinian prisoners as a goodwill gesture to the Palestinian government. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Cabinet overwhelmingly passed the proposal at a meeting Sunday. (AP Photo/ Jim Hollander, Pool)
    Top Israeli candidate wants unity government Thu Aug 21, 7:09 AM ET

    JERUSALEM - The politician with perhaps the best chance to replace Israel's embattled prime minister on Thursday called for a unity government to pursue the creation of a Palestinian state living peacefully alongside Israel.

  • Indian activists of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Lenist), CPI (ML) take part in a demonstration against the Indo-US nuclear deal, in New Delhi in July 2008. The United States is set to push the 45-nation Nuclear Suppliers Group to agree on a landmark nuclear deal with India despite objections at home and reservation among some nations.(AFP/File/Manan Vatsyayana)
    Nuclear exporters mull lifting India trade ban Thu Aug 21, 1:24 PM ET

    VIENNA, Austria - A group of nations that export nuclear material on Thursday debated whether to give India access to nuclear fuel and technology — a decision crucial to finalizing a landmark U.S.-India deal lifting a ban on such sales.

  • Relatives mourn the death of suicide blast victims at the Pakistan Ordinance Factories Hospital in Wah, a garrison city northwest of Islamabad August 21, 2008. (Faisal Mahmood/Reuters)
    Taliban claim Pakistan suicide blasts that kill 46 Thu Aug 21, 7:51 AM ET

    WAH, Pakistan - A spokesman for Pakistani Taliban groups has claimed responsibility for the two suicide bombings at a government arms factory near the capital.

  • Afghan President Hamed Karzai (right) and British Prime Minister Gordon Brown in Kabul. British troops numbers in Afghanistan are likely to rise before they fall, the commander of the country's soldiers there said in an interview published Friday(AFP/Massoud Hossaini)
    US coalition: 30 militants die in Afghan battle Thu Aug 21, 1:22 AM ET

    KABUL, Afghanistan - 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.

  • Mexico outraged over corrupt police, kidnappings Thu Aug 21, 1:48 PM ET

    MEXICO CITY - After kidnappers in police uniforms set up a fake checkpoint to snatch 14-year-old Fernando Marti off a Mexico City street, his businessman father paid hundreds of thousands of dollars in ransom, and waited for his son's safe return.

  • Map shows flood-hit Uttar Pradesh, India, where at least 74 people were killed; 1c x 2 5/8 inches; 46.5 mm x 66.7 mm
    At least 74 killed in flooding in India Thu Aug 21, 3:21 AM ET

    LUCKNOW, India - Monsoon rains pummeled northern India, bringing dozens of buildings crashing down and killing 74 people, police said Thursday.