NATO has called for Russia to honor all six points of a cease-fire agreement brokered by the EU last week to end the fighting in Georgia. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that "there can be no business as usual with Russia under the present circumstances."

Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa died Tuesday at a hospital in Paris, France, nearly two months after suffering a stroke, a Zambian official told CNN.

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Zimbabwe's inflation rate has soared in the past three months and is now at 11.2 million percent, the highest in the world, according to the country's Central Statistical Office.

An attack on a military school in Algeria killed 43 people and wounded another 38 on Tuesday, the interior ministry said.

A bomb blast at a hospital in northwest Pakistan killed at least 23 people Tuesday, authorities said. Another 15 to 20 were injured.

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U.S. and Afghan forces repelled an attack by several suicide bombers on a U.S. base in southeastern Afghanistan on Tuesday.

Leaders of Pakistan's ruling coalition were meeting Tuesday to discuss who will replace President Pervez Musharraf, who resigned Monday.

In a nationwide measure, Argentina has granted gay couples the right to collect the pensions of their dead partners.

The resignation of Pakistan's Pervez Musharraf has been accepted with immediate effect by national lawmakers, a Pakistan official said. The National Assembly formally accepted Musharraf's resignation hours after a televised address Monday announcing that he would step down.

Tropical Storm Fay is expected to deliver up to a foot of rain to parts of Cuba, and with it, the possibility of life-threatening flash floods and mudslides, the National Hurricane Center said Monday.

Russia says it will begin pulling back its troops from Georgia on Monday, but a Russian lawmaker has compared the situation to the U.S. presence in Iraq.

Security contractor Blackwater said any guards who acted improperly in a deadly 2007 shooting in Baghdad should be held accountable, but believes its team acted in self-defense, a company spokeswoman said.

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The United Nations' World Food Program on Monday expressed its shock at the "senseless and barbaric" killing of an aid worker in southern Somalia.

Authorities tightened security in Kabul for Afghanistan's Independence Day celebration Monday amid "credible intelligence" that attacks were planned against civilian, military and government targets, according to the commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Afghanistan.

A man who led a decade-long bloody insurgency was sworn in Monday as Nepal's new prime minister.

Iran test-fired a rocket that it plans to launch later to carry a research satellite into space, state-run media reported Sunday.

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