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It comes days after Pakistan lodged a protest with the U.S. ambassador against a missile attack deep inside its territory on Wednesday.

President Bush and other leaders are gathering in Peru for a weekend summit on economic cooperation.

An Iraqi parliament vote on a security agreement with the U.S. could be delayed.

A French Socialist Party official says a vote to pick a new opposition leader was ending with no clear winner between Segolene Royal and Martine Aubry.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates says he would like to see significant numbers of U.S. forces go into Afghanistan before planned national elections there next year.

A high-ranking Vatican official says Pope Benedict XVI is considering introducing a change to the Mass liturgy.

The State Department has renewed an appeal to Iran for information about a former FBI agent, Floridian Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iranian territory 20 months ago.

Officials say Mexico's former drug czar took $450,000 to leak information to a powerful cartel.

Russia's anti-AIDS coordinator says the number of registered HIV cases is growing 10 percent a year despite increased government funding.

The non-profit group Save the Children is distributing a letter signed by 31 Nobel Peace Prize recipients that seeks help for millions of children trapped in war zones around the world.