A Iran-bound Boeing 737 has crashed near the airport in Kyrgyzstan's capital, Bishkek, a government official said. Ramis Satybekov, an official from Kyrgyzstan's Emergency Situations Ministry, told CNN roughly 60 passengers were killed and more than 20 people injured.
AP - A suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday in the midst of a celebration to welcome home an Iraqi detainee released from U.S. custody, killing at least 25 people, Iraqi officials said.
AP - A U.S. Navy destroyer loaded with humanitarian aid reached Georgia's Black Sea port of Batumi on Sunday, bringing baby food, bottled water and a message of support for an embattled ally.
AP - Taliban insurgents once derided as a ragtag rabble unable to match U.S. troops have transformed into a fighting force one advanced enough to mount massive conventional attacks and claim American lives at a record pace.
AP - A passenger jet carrying 90 people, including a Kyrgyz high school sports team, crashed shortly after takeoff Sunday near the Kyrgyz capital, killing 68, government officials said.
BISHKEK (Reuters) - About 70 people, including members of a teenage basketball team, died on Sunday when a Kyrgyz airliner crashed in a ball of flames shortly after take-off from the Central Asian state's main airport.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmakers meet on Monday to discuss pleas by Georgian separatists for Moscow to recognize their independence, a move that could stoke tensions with the West over Russia's military intervention in pro-Western Georgia.
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A suicide bomber in an explosive vest killed 25 people at a dinner banquet in western Baghdad's Sunni Arab Abu Ghraib district on Sunday, police said.
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