TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — World leaders embraced for the first time on Tuesday an ambitious but nonbinding goal of slashing greenhouse-gas emissions in half by midcentury to stave off global warming. Unim » Full Story

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) — President Bush defended a languishing deal his administration negotiated to sell India nuclear fuel and technology, saying he reassured India’s prime minister that the pact was im » Full Story

LONDON (AP) — The times they aren’t a changing. Not at Buckingham Palace, at least.

Tea with the queen Tuesday looked much the same as it would have 140 years ago when Queen Victoria started » Full Story

BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraqi officials stepped up pressure on the United States on Tuesday to agree to a specific timeline to withdraw American forces, a sign of the government’s growing confidence as violenc » Full Story

PARIS (AP) — Liquid containing traces of unenriched uranium leaked Tuesday at a nuclear site in southern France, and some of the solution ran into two rivers, France’s nuclear safety agency said.
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PRAGUE, Czech Republic (AP) — The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming t » Full Story

WUFU, China (AP) — Angry parents whose children were crushed to death in schools that collapsed in China’s mighty earthquake are no longer being allowed to march, wave banners and vent their rage in p » Full Story

RUSUTSU, Japan (AP) — French President Nicolas Sarkozy will attend the opening of the Beijing Olympics next month, his office said Wednesday, putting an end to his threat to boycott the event over Chi » Full Story

TOYAKO, Japan (AP) _ President Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel pledged Tuesday to keep working together on common problems, but progress appeared slow on reaching a consensus on climate chang » Full Story

SHANGHAI, China (AP) _ It all started with a farmer and his claim of sighting a rare tiger, backed up by supposed photos of the animal in the local woods, curled up and staring at the camera.

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