U.S. and Iraqi negotiators have agreed to a preliminary draft of an agreement on the future of U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. military official said.
A plane belonging to Spanish national airways SpanAir went off the runway and crashed at Madrid's Barajas Airport on Wednesday, and there are believed to be injuries, an airport official said.
NATO and Russia remain at loggerheads as senior figures within the military alliance accuse Moscow of failing to honor the full terms of the cease-fire agreement, brokered by the European Union to end the fighting in Georgia.
The first U.S. military ship carrying humanitarian aid for Georgia is headed to the Black Sea after loading the supplies from a port in Crete on Wednesday, according to U.S. Navy officials.
AP - A jetliner heading to the popular Canary Islands vacation resort crashed during takeoff Wednesday, turning a wooded area off the end of a runway into a hellish scene of charred bodies and smoldering wreckage. Some 153 were believed dead Spain's worst air disaster in nearly 25 years.
AP - Iraqi and U.S. negotiators have completed a draft security agreement that would see American troops leave Iraqi cities as soon as June 30, Iraqi and American officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
AP - The United States and Poland signed a deal Wednesday to place a U.S. missile defense base just 115 miles from Russia a move followed swiftly by a new warning from Moscow of a possible military response.
AP - Russian forces dug trenches and built sentry posts deep inside Georgia on Wednesday, showing few signs they would pull back later this week as promised.
MADRID (Reuters) - 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.
PARIS (Reuters) - France reacted in shock on Wednesday to the death of 10 of its soldiers in an ambush in Afghanistan and questions began to be asked about the country's worst military loss in 25 years.
TBILISI (Reuters) - Russia came under mounting Western pressure to meet its own self-imposed Friday deadline for pulling its forces out of Georgia but there was little sign of any large-scale withdrawal of troops.
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