The resignation of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has been accepted with immediate effect by national lawmakers, a Pakistan official said. The National Assembly formally accepted Musharraf's resignation hours after a televised address Monday announcing that he would step down.
Russia says it will begin pulling back its troops from Georgia on Monday, but a Russian lawmaker has compared the situation to the U.S. presence in Iraq.
AP - Pervez Musharraf resigned Monday as the president of Pakistan, avoiding a power struggle with rivals vowing to impeach him that would have deepened the country's political crisis.
AP - Russia said Monday it had begun withdrawing from the conflict zone in Georgia, but it held fast to key positions and sent some of its troops in the opposite direction closer to the Georgian capital.
AP - U.S. military trainers the only American boots on the ground say the Georgian soldiers they knew who were sent to battle the Russians had fighting spirit but were not ready for war.
AP - Two bricklayers, a security guard and a cement buyer walked across the vast Olympic Green they helped build, holding some of the games' hottest tickets in their deeply tanned hands.
GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - A Russian tank crashes through a barricade of Georgian police cars, explosions ring out from a military base as Russian troops destroy Georgian arms and ammunition, soldiers sit listlessly at the roadside.
MULTAN, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistanis danced in the streets on Monday after beleaguered President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation, with many ordinary people hoping his departure would bring improvement to their lives.
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand's Election Commission (EC) is due to decide on Tuesday whether to recommend that the ruling People Power Party (PPP) be disbanded for electoral fraud, the latest twist in three years of political turmoil.
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