Obama plans vice-presidential announcement International Herald Tribune -2 hours ago By Adam Nagourney and Jeff Zeleny WASHINGTON: Senator Barack Obama has all but settled on his choice for a vice-presidential running mate and set an elaborate rollout plan for his decision, beginning with an early-morning alert to supporters, … Obama expected to name a running mate this weekThe Associated Press Choice Will Remain Secret Until Later This WeekABC News CBS News - The Daily Voice - FOXNews - KTAR.com all 540 news articles

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Hiker says finding family's plane was 'unbelievably sad' Houston Chronicle -8 hours ago By MIKE GLENN Susanna Jacomini, left, Tommy Jacomini, and their children, Viva, 5, and Thomas, 8, were found dead in their wrecked airplane 125 miles from Steamboat Springs, Colo. Man killed with family in wreck "loved to fly"Denver Post Plane Wreckage Found, No Survivors.KRDO FOXNews - Brenham Banner Press - Austin American-Statesman - MyFox Houston all 235 news articles

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Reuters - A column of Russian tanks and armoured vehicles left the Georgian city of Gori on Tuesday in what Russian officials said was the start of the pull-back demanded by the West.

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AFP - Ten French NATO soldiers were killed in a Taliban ambush in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, in the deadliest combat incident for foreign troops since the start of the US-led war in 2001.

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Russia starts to withdraw from Georgia - witness Reuters -54 minutes ago By Dmitry Solovyov GORI, Georgia (Reuters) - Russian troops, tanks and armoured vehicles started to withdraw from the Georgian town of Gori on Tuesday, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. Reports from Georgia say Russian Troops Begin Moving from City of GoriVoice of America In Battered Villages, Georgians Speak, if They DareNew York Times BBC News - The Associated Press - Reuters UK - guardian.co.uk all 4,338 news articles

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Reuters - The U.S. presidential election presents a sharp contrast between two types of patriotism: John McCain stands as a war hero. His rival Barack Obama calls Americans back to the can-do spirit of the nation’s founders.

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Taliban Forces Kill 10 French Soldiers and Raid US Base New York Times -1 hour ago By CARLOTTA GALL and SANGAR RAHIMI KABUL, Afghanistan - Taliban insurgents mounted their most serious attacks in six years of fighting, one a complex attack with multiple suicide bombers on a United States military base Monday night, and another by … Afghanistan clash kills 10 French soldiersUnited Press International Taliban Suicide Bombers Attack US Base in AfghanistanVoice of America Reuters - CNN - BBC News - AFP all 733 news articles

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Official: Hamas may exchange Shalit for own prisoners Xinhua -3 hours ago GAZA, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — A senior Hamas leader on Tuesday hinted that his movement will exchange an Israeli soldier for only the Islamic movement's prisoners. Hamas upset by Fatah prisoner releaseJerusalem Post Israel: Prisoners to Be ReleasedNew York Times Ha’aretz - The Associated Press - AFP - Ynetnews all 592 news articles

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AP - Russian soldiers took about 20 Georgian troops prisoner at a key Black Sea port in western Georgia on Tuesday, blindfolding them and holding them at gunpoint, and commandeered American Humvees awaiting shipment back to the United States.

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AP - Shawn Johnson finally got her Olympic gold medal in the last event of the women’s competition Tuesday night, the balance beam.

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