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Rice signs missile defense deal with Poland (AP)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski (R) exchange documents after signing a deal on basing an American missile shield in Poland, in Warsaw. The United States has ruled out the use of US military force in Georgia, but the Pentagon will almost certainly be looking for other chess pieces to move to check a more aggressive Russia, analysts say.(AFP/Janek Skarzynski)AP - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her Polish counterpart signed a deal Wednesday to build a U.S. missile defense base in Poland, an agreement that prompted an infuriated Russia to warn of a possible attack against the former Soviet satellite.


At UN, Russia circulates Georgia resolution (AP)

An elderly ethnic Georgian woman is helped by Russian Emergency Situation Ministry members as they evacuate displaced people from a Georgian enclave destroyed by South Ossetia militia, near the South Ossetian capital of Tshkinvali, August 20, 2008. (Denis Sinyakov/Reuters)AP - Russia is countering a French push for immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia by circulating a competing U.N. Security Council resolution.


149 dead in plane crash at Madrid airport (AP)

An ambulance leaves the site where a Spanair jet crashed on takeoff at Madrid airport on Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands swerves off the runway and catches fire during takeoff from the Madrid airport, killing at least 45 people, the Interior Ministry says.  (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)AP - A Spanish airliner bound for the Canary Islands at the height of the vacation season crashed, burned and broke into pieces Wednesday while trying to take off from Madrid, killing 149 people on board, officials said.


Sudan's president: Darfur genocide 'nonexistent' (AP)

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir addresses the media in Istanbul, Turkey, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. Al-Bashir denied that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur, during his first trip abroad since the International Criminal Court in The Hague indicted him last month on genocide and war crimes charges. (AP Photo/Ibrahim Usta)AP - Sudan's indicted president denied Wednesday that his regime is orchestrating genocide in the troubled western region of Darfur — and offered hope for an end to the violence and the dawn of reconciliation by promising free and fair elections next year.


Beshir says no Sudanese will ever be tried abroad (AFP)

Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir speaks during his press conference in Istanbul. Beshir, named as a possible war crimes suspect in Darfur, said here Wednesday that no citizen of his country would ever be handed over to international justice.(AFP/Bulent Kilic)AFP - Sudanese President Omar al-Beshir, named as a possible war crimes suspect in Darfur, said here Wednesday that no citizen of his country would ever be handed over to international justice.


Close ally of Colombia's president freed from jail (AP) AP - A former senator close to President Alvaro Uribe was freed from prison on Wednesday, four months after his arrest on charges of colluding with far-right death squads.
Missile strike reported in northwest Pakistan (AP)

A policeman stands guard at a bazaar which is closed due to a strike protesting against the killing of Shi'ite Muslims in Tuesday's suicide blast, in Dera Ismail Khan, August 20, 2008. A suspected suicide bomber killed 23 people in the compound of the hospital in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday as members of a religious minority were holding a protest, police said.    REUTERS/Mustansar Baloch (PAKISTAN)AP - Missiles destroyed a suspected militant hide-out near the Afghan border Wednesday where foreign insurgents were known to frequent, killing at least five people, Pakistani officials said.


Musharraf unwinds, but could face court (AP)

Outgoing Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf salutes, as he leaves the presidential house in Islamabad, Pakistan on Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Musharraf announced his resignation Monday, ending a nearly nine-year tenure that opponents said was hampering the country's shaky return to democracy. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)AP - Ousted from Pakistan's presidency, Pervez Musharraf has been unwinding with friends and admirers and on the tennis court. He's building a roomy farmhouse on the edge of the capital.


2 Chinese protesters ordered to year in labor camp (AP)

79-year-old mother, Wu Dianyuan, center, and her neighbor Wang Xiuying, 77, wait to apply for a protest permit outside a public security bureau as a Chinese police officer ask them to move on in Beijing, China, Monday, Aug. 18, 2008. Chinese authorities have ordered the two elderly women to spend one year in a labor camp after they applied to hold a protest during the Beijing Olympics against being forced from their homes, a relative said Wednesday. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)AP - Two elderly Chinese women who applied during the Olympic Games to protest the loss of their homes have been ordered to spend a year in a labor camp, a relative said Wednesday, as more foreign activists were detained.


Russians dig in as pullback drags on in Georgia (AP)

Russian soldiers patrol the highway near Igoeti, northwest of the capital Tbilisi, Georgia, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008. A top Russian general said Russia plans to construct a series of checkpoints manned by hundreds of soldiers in the so-called 'security zone' around Georgia's de-facto border with the breakaway territory of South Ossetia. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic)AP - Russian forces on Wednesday built a sentry post just 30 miles from the Georgian capital, appearing to dig in to positions deep inside Georgia despite pledges to pull back to areas mandated by a cease-fire signed by both countries.