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Time.com: Russia Recognizes Georgian Rebels

President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia has recognized the independence of the breakaway Georgian territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Georgian President: Moscow picked fight

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili argues in an op-ed column in Monday's Wall Street Journal that Russia picked the fight with Georgia in South Ossetia to crush Georgia's pro-Western democracy.

Time.com: Jihad in China's Far West

Chinese authorities say the attack was a plot by two fanatics. But unhappiness with Beijing is never far below the surface

Author Solzhenitsyn, who exposed gulag horrors, dies at 89

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Nobel Prize-winning Russian author whose books chronicled the horrors of dictator Josef Stalin's slave labor camps, has died of heart failure, his son said Monday. He was 89.

Water fresh from the tarp

It may look like an air mattress you might see lying around next to a swimming pool but in reality its function couldn't be less trivial.

Kazakhstan's natural wonders under threat

It is a baking hot Saturday in southeast Kazakhstan, and I have joined a group of scientists, diplomats, businessmen and a ballerina aboard a Russian-built, nine-seater four-wheel-drive van to escape the city of Almaty and its mountainous backdrop.

CNNMoney: Tensions rise in energy rich Central Asia

It's got all the makings of an international geopolitical thriller: World powers move their armies into a violent, remote, and politically fragile region brimming with valuable oil and natural gas resources; except it's not fiction.

The Spirit of Diplomacy: The envoy who spoke out

Common opinion holds that diplomacy involves careful negotiation and an ability to bite your tongue. But what happens when the political situation in a country is so corrupt that you feel it is your moral duty to speak out?

Fallon resigns as chief of U.S. forces in Middle East

Adm. William Fallon has resigned as chief of U.S. forces in the Middle East and Central Asia after more than a year in the post, citing what he called an inaccurate perception that he is at odds with the Bush administration over Iran.

U.S.: Resignation doesn't mean Iran war

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates has dismissed as "ridiculous" any suggestion that the resignation of America's military chief in the Middle East signals the United States is planning to go to war with Iran.

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